I just came across a document describing how to use Nvivo, an analytical tool for qualitative data, to support production of literature reviews. Indeed, it looks quite appealing to me. However, Nvivo seems to be terribly expensive - 415 USD for a single license. Student licences are also availble - but they only work for 1 year (as far as I understand) !

Here is the pdf describing how to use Nvivo for literature reviews:
http://www.sdgassociates.com/downloads/literature_review.pdf

And here is the Nvivo site:
http://www.qsrinternational.com/products/productoverview/NVivo.htm

Has anybody here experiences with this or similar programs? Any knowledge about similar, cheaper programs?

Peter.

Peter,

No experince, of this at all, sounds like Alx's territory.

Graham

Has anybody here experiences with this or similar programs? Any knowledge about similar, cheaper programs?

A couple of years ago I worked with ATLAS.ti

http://www.atlasti.de/

which was great for text analysing. I can imagine that it is useful for literature review also, but you must "digitalize" it first. And yes, it is cheaper: unlimited student's license costs $190.

W.

Peter,

On reflection I am aware of a similar product at http://www.provalisresearch.com/wordstat/wordstat.html

They produce a low cost statistics program, but I see that Wordstat is far from a low price. None the less, may be worth while knowing about.

Graham