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Tallinna Ülikooli üliõpilaste 2015/2016. õppeaasta PARIMAD TEADUSTÖÖD / Artiklite kogumik HARIDUSTEADUSED
Figure 2: Overview of the tools that can be used for di erent literature reviewing procedures
list view of all the publications. is triggered the need for a tool that was able to extract and possibly complement metadata from the studies.
Mendeley was chosen as the most appropriate tool. is was due to the fact that the so ware was available on both Windows as well as OS X operating systems and its libraries were stored online. is meant that the studies and all their annotations were accessible from all devices. Additionally, Mendeley provided access to the Mendeley catalogue, which allows researchers to extract metadata from Mendeley’s database.
Figure 2 illustrates how di erent tools can be employed to assist di erent literature reviewing procedures. Each literature reviewing approach was mapped against di erent procedures that can be employed. ese procedures were marked with the tools that can be used to carry them out. Only reference management and qualitative data analysis tools were used in the gure, since other tools (e.g. CmapTools) can mostly be used for a single procedure.
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