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QUESTION 1

The Matrix Indexing System consists of these activities: Merging information from three sources: (1) an electronic bibliographic database, such as MEDLINE; (2) reference management software, such as RefWorks, EndNote, or ProCite; and (3) the Documents folder within your Lit Review master folder; expanding the Documents folder in your Lit Review master folder; and updating a review of the literature.

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QUESTION 2

If you set up your initial review of the literature using the Matrix Method, you already have a start on the Matrix Indexing System. However, the indexing system differs from the Matrix Method. The Matrix Method is a strategy for acquiring, analyzing, and writing a synthesis of a review of the scientific literature. In contrast, the Matrix Indexing System provides a way of coping with all the information and documents that you use or create as a result of a review of the literature. In other words, the Matrix Indexing System gives you a way to create a manageable system in the afterlife of each review of the literature. This chapter explains how to create and use the Matrix Indexing System.

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QUESTION 3

In preparing a manuscript to be submitted to a journal or for a report or thesis, there is an enormous savings in time and effort in being able to switch from one bibliographic style, such as the style for the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in the medical field, to another style, such as that for American Psychologist. This capability alone is reason enough to put a reference management software package on your computer. Over time, however, these packages have developed additional features that are now put to use in the Matrix Indexing System.

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QUESTION 4

Reference management software packages provide a link between electronic bibliographic databases, located in places like a biomedical library or on the Internet, and a reference library on your own computer. Reference management software such as EndNote or RefWorks uses the term reference library. In the Matrix Method, this is the same as the Documents folder.

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QUESTION 5

Location labels describe where you keep your reprints or other source documents. These location labels provide a link between the references in your reference management software and the reprints in the Documents folders in one or more Lit Review master folders. In creating a standard list of location labels, the most efficient strategy is to make this list before you do a review of the literature or accumulate reprints in the Documents folder.

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QUESTION 6

Location labels, together with reference management software, are the keys to managing an overwhelming amount of detail about pdf files, printed documents, or other materials accumulated in a literature review.

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QUESTION 7

The advantage of storing all your reprints chronologically in a Documents folder within a Lit Review master folder and then keeping track of the references in your reference library using location labels is that you will be able to find these materials when you need them. Thus, you create an organized storage and filing system for your reprints, rather than a random collection of articles that you cannot access because you cannot remember what is there or how to locate the materials you need.

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QUESTION 8

A typical scenario for an experienced scientist is when an extensive review of the literature is prepared as part of a grant proposal, and the Lit Review master folder is set aside during the period when the grant is reviewed. After the grant is awarded, the research begins, with new references identified and new source documents added in the Documents folder as they become available. Later, in preparing scientific papers about the results of the study, another thorough review of the literature is needed, probably with a more specific focus than for the grant proposal. The same Lit Review master folder can be used for these purposes: generation of the initial literature review for the proposal, a Documents folder for storing and adding reprints of source documents over time, an update of the Review Matrix, and the preparation of a new Synthesis for the literature review for the manuscript describing the results of a completed study. Over the same period of time, from grant proposal to publication of research results, this Lit Review master folder has kept pace with the researcher.

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QUESTION 9

You need four tools to create a Matrix Indexing System: electronic bibliographic databases, reference management software, source documents downloaded in the Documents folder, and location labels.

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QUESTION 10

Software packages designed to format references in research papers and reports have been available for approximately 15–20 years, and they can be used with a variety of computer platforms, such as Mac, PC, and Unix. They are also known as bibliographic management or citation management software. You can organize references to scientific papers, books, and other source documents cited in scientific or other academic publications and arrange them in the references section of a scientific paper according to your choice of bibliographic style—this is the reference management part of these software packages.

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The Matrix Indexing System consists of these activities: Merging information from three sources: (1) an electronic bibliographic database, such as MEDLINE; (2) reference management software, such as RefWorks, EndNote, or ProCite; and (3) the Documents folder within your Lit Review master folder; expanding the Documents folder in your Lit Review master folder; and updating a review of the literature.