Well, I'm definitely not defending restrictive practices: FWIW I completely agree with you. 

First off, I didn't know much about NVivo and its uses and Zena's email made me wonder if anyone here did; so that's really useful - thanks. 

But secondly, as Emma says in her reply, when it comes to ILL's and electronic copyright we are governed by law and, whatever our opinions may be on the rights and wrongs of the law we don't have much choice but to do our best not to break it. But having now looked at Zena's email properly it seems she is not talking about ILL's, I just thought she was. So I'll go away again!

Veronica 

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Subject: Using NVivo to analyse articles WAS; Exporting 10000

Just wearing my gamekeeper turned poacher hat as an academic.

Using NVIVO or similar software would be an accepted methodology for
conducting a qualitative systematic review. You would code up the
articles for themes and then interpret their similarities and differences.

Two observations:
1. Systematic reviews as a movement have probably done more for the
profile of librarians/information specialist than any single academic
endeavour;
2. Given that journal articles are written by academics, reviewed by
academics and edited by academics is there any reason why librarians
should be morally inclined to represent the interests of the journal
publishers more than the interests of the academics (as users/producers)
of the organisations which employs them and pays for their services?

Finally the open acess argument would be that if the TEXT of every
journal article was available via the digital repositories then this
sort of data mining endeavour where you are adding value to the research
already paid for by public monies would be much more feasible and less
vulnerable to the restrictive practices of the commercial publishers.

FWIW

Andrew




Veronica Murray said the following on 25/02/2010 11:29:
> We've recently had a situation with a lecturer (not in my School) and his PhD students requesting very large (though not 10,000!) numbers of ILL's. Subsequent investigation revealed their plan was to use NVivo software to do the analysis of the articles. They are being quite cagey about it and we can't get much more information out of them. Has anyone else come across this use of NVivo - we'd like to know more?
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> But I'd agree with Zena that requesting that number of articles is likely to break at least one of the terms of the license or the law.
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> Veronica
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> -----Original Message-----
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> I would think this would be illegal, & break the terms of usage.
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> What on earth is he intending to do with ten thousand references???
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> Zena Woodley, B.A.(Joint Hons), MCLIP
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> I wonder if anyone can help?
> One of our users is trying to use the databases at www.library.nhs.uk and wants to export a large number of references into Endnote - over 10,000. He's not able to do it using these databases and I've suggested he contact NHS Evidence to check if it is possible, (and it's not just a glitch) but I was also wondering if anyone knows if it's possible to do it through the Ovid native interface? I can't test it as we don't have access to Endnote or similar.
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> Thanks
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