Before starting with the exercises, it is, of course, necessary to import the exercise material into NVivo.

In this case, we are working with 7 articles about fear of childbirth from PubMed central. The articles are saved as PDFs and the reference information is saved as a RIS file as I used my reference manager Zotero to archive the files.

Download the RIS file and save it on your computer where you can find it again.
Download the PDFs and save them on your computer where you can find them again.

How to import data into Nvivo from Zotero:

With NVivo open:

Click the tab “Import”. Then click “Zotero”, and find and select the RIS file stored locally on your computer.

In the import dialogue that pops up, choose to:
Name your files by Author and Year
Assign to a single classification (Reference)
Ensure that the option “assign attribute values to memos” is unchecked.
Click import

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As I am sharing the RIS file with you, the PDFs will not be automatically imported into Nvivo. Which means we have to do an extra step that you would not normally have to do if you were working with your own data from your reference manager.

How to import files manually into Zotero

Download the articles and save them locally on your computer. You'll find them in Files section of this Absalon room.

2. Click the tab “Import” on the top navigation ribbon. Then click “Files”, and you can now find and select your 7 articles. Do NOT create a case for each imported file.

Alternatively,

Open “Data”>”Files” in the left side of the screen. You can now drag-and-drop the files from the folder on your computer into NVivo.

When you import directly from your own reference manager you get all the bibliographic information as well as the article. Importing manually from your own files means this bibliographic data is lost (unless it is embedded in the PDF of the article), which is why we have to do the two steps here.