Managing Information for Research: Managing research

This page provides links to the handouts and the schedule of training facilitated by Dr. Shamin Renwick (Senior Librarian I) 

UWI Students have access to download MS Office 360, access to 1TB on OneDrive.

The following are examples of suggested software, not endorsements. 

Some are free, with fees for enhanced features. You may have to register. 

Conceptualising

• Scapple 
• Coggle
• Mind42
• Visual Thesaurus
• Mind Master

Organising

• WorkFlowy
• ClickUp

Making Lists

• Todoist

• Trello

• Asana - for collaboration with Teams

Project Management

• GanttPRO

Note Taking

• Evernote
• Apple Notes
• Notion
• Google Keep
• MS OneNote
• MS Excel

Data Collection

• Google Forms
• Survey Monkey
• RedCap - UWI provides access
• MS Forms
• MS Excel

Data Presentation

Diagrams

• Draw.io

• MS Visio

Image Editing

• Adobe Photoshop

• GIMP

Visualising Data

• MS Power BI

• Tableau

Data Analysis

Quantitative

• MS Excel

• PSPP - free alternative to SPSS

• SPSS - UWI provides access in Computer Labs

• R

Qualitiative

• Atlast.ti

• NVivo

Mixed Methods

• QDA Miner Lite

• QDA Miner - UWI provides access

Writing Up

• Scrivener
• Overleaf - LaTex editor
• MS Word

Grammar and Spell Check

• Grammarly

Checking for Plagiarism

• Turnitin - See myeLearning
• Dupli Checker - free for up to 1,000 words
• Google

Back-Up

• MS OneDrive - UWI students have access to I TB cloud space to save their files.
• Google Drive - have access with a gmail address
• Dropbox - 2GB free, check for version control of documents
• GitHub - version control of code

• Referencing with APA 7th ed.
• Chicago Manual of Style 17th ed. Author Date Format

EndNote 20 is a programme to manage a database of your references.

•  You may enter manually or download citation files from information databases. This software allows you to insert your in-text citation and format your list of references in a reference style of your choice. 

Currently, EndNote 20 for Windows and Mac is available for download on the UWI STA student portal. 

Log on to the UWI STA student portal. 

There is a folder called "EndNote 20" on this page in the portal:  https://my.uwi.edu/group/mycampus/my-documents.

Scroll down to EndNote.

Click on EndNote and you will get a memo explaining how to install EndNote 20 for Windows and Mac. 

Click here for my list resources on using EndNote20 - scroll down on the rightside of this page.

{For UWI staff, LAN admins can install on your computer/laptop}

Using the SEARCH ALL feature in UWILinc- video