Emergency & Disaster Management 332, 435, and 457: Content Analysis assignment - Johnson

Keeping track of your research is always important, and especially so when you are doing a content analysis and juggling many, many sources. Recreating all your searches the night before your paper is due because you haven't tracked your sources throughout the research process is stressful, time consuming, and easily avoided. Read below to learn some different ways to organize your research.

Most of the databases to which you have access through the library include tools to help you keep track of your sources. I have included some screenshots displaying available options from two databases, the Criminal Justice Database and SocINDEX, both of which are linked on the Emergency & Disaster Management research guide.

Criminal Justice Database

When you find an article that you want to save in the Criminal Justice Database, click the icon that says "All Options" in the upper right corner of the screen.

You should then see a menu with all available options for saving the resource. I recommend either emailing the article to yourself or selecting the Google Drive feature.

SocINDEX

SocIndex has an almost identical set of tools. The options are located on the right side of the screen when you open an article.

Citation managers are tools that allow you to track and organize sources. You can create folders for different projects and even share folders with collaborators. Citation managers also can help you create bibliographies, footnotes, and in-text citations.

There are several citation managers available, and information about two popular, free options (Zotero and EndNote Basic) is linked below.