Organizing And Managing Your Research [electronic resource] : a practical guide for postgraduates / Renata Phelps, Kath Fisher and Allan Ellis.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction -- How do you become both an efficient and an effective researcher? -- Why become an efficient and effective researcher? -- Who should use this book? -- What does the book do (and not do)? -- 2. Establishing Technical Fundamentals -- Learning about technology -- Hardware fundamentals -- Software fundamentals -- Networking fundamentals -- Increasing your technical efficiency -- 3. Managing Yourself, Your Ideas and Your Support Structures -- Know thyself -- Managing your time -- Managing your ideas -- Managing your supervisor -- Setting up a peer support structure -- 4. Organizing Your Work Environment -- Organizing your physical environment -- Constructing a universal filing schema -- Electronic or hard copy? -- Managing your paper resources -- Managing your electronic resources -- 5. Planning and Overseeing Progress of Your Project -- Developing a research plan -- Timelines and milestones -- Project management software -- Budgets, grants and resource management -- 6. Communicating and Networking Electronically -- Using the Web for professional networking -- Asynchronous communication -- Synchronous communication -- Translation resources -- Establishing your own presence on the Web -- 7. Effective Literature Searching -- The changing nature of information literacy -- Fundamental searching strategies and skills -- Tools for locating literature -- Monitoring literature -- 8. Strategic Web Searching -- Web-searching tools -- Improving your search results -- Managing important websites -- Ready references on the Web -- Evaluating Web-based information -- 9. Managing and Organizing your Literature -- Bibliographic software -- Strategic handling of your literature -- 10. Designing Data Collection Systems -- Planning and managing data collection -- Multimedia data collection -- Computer-based data collection -- Simulation software -- Collecting data online -- Data from the Internet: some examples -- 11. Managing Data Analysis -- Qualitative data analysis -- Quantitative data analysis -- 12. Improving Your Writing Efficiency -- Word processing skills for research writing -- Typographical considerations -- Improving writing efficiency -- Writing for screen -- 13. Presenting and Publishing Your Research -- Oral presentations -- Using presentation software -- Publishing your research.

'Organizing and Managing Your Research' deals with the practical, day-to-day aspects of managing and organizing research. Its focus is on strategies, skills and systems that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of research practice across all disciplines.