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a Citation
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Citation Tools
for Undergrads
Citation/Research Mgmt.
Tools for Grads/Faculty
Tools for Graduate Students and Faculty
These tools have a variety of features useful for the kind of in-depth and
sustained research done by faculty and graduate students. For productivity
tools that aid in such research see the Productivity Tools guide. For an
overview of tools that help manage the research process from idea to
publication see the blog post on Research Management Tools from the
Academic PKM blog. For a directory of academic research tools, see Bamboo
DiRT. See also the list of Graduate Library User Education (GLUE) classes
taught each semester.
BibTeX
Wikipedia article on BibTeX, which is a reference formatting tool usually used with
LaTeX, a popular typesetting tool often used at GT for formatting theses,
dissertations, and other scholarly articles. The article mentions, under "Uses", a
number of reference management tools that support BibTeX, including Qiqqa,
Mendeley, Zotero, Citavi, CiteULike, and more.
colwiz
colwiz is short for "collective wisdom". Free to use, designed by researchers at
Oxford University, it is designed to help at every stage of the research process from
beginning research through publication. Became available March 2011.
Click the "i" button for more.
Docear
"Docear (“dog-ear”) is an academic literature suite. It integrates everything you
need to search, organize and create academic literature into a single application:
digital library with support for pdf documents, reference manager, note taking and
with mind maps taking a central role. What’s more, Docear works seamlessly with
many existing tools like Mendeley, Microsoft Word, and Foxit Reader. Docear is free
and open source..."
EndNote
Full-featured citation manager. Available for free through the campus site license.
See the EndNote Guide for downloading instructions.
EndNote Web
a web-based EndNote tool -available via ISI Web of Science -that allows you to
collect and organize your references and create bibliographies within your word
processing program.
Mendeley
Social bookmarking/research management tool, one of the most popular.
Qiqqa
Qiqqa (pronounced quicker) is another software program with a robust set of tools
that handles reference management, storage and annotation of PDFs, optical
character recognition of PDFs which allows searching across one's library,
organizing papers by theme, and other features designed to allow maximum
automation of research tasks. It promotes connecting ideas across papers and
discovering similar papers, and also has some collaboration features.
ReadCube
Free web based device with no downloads. Stores PDFs, allows highlighting and in-
line notes, creates citations that can be sent directly to EndNote, it allows quick
download and internal searches of Google Scholar and PubMed and has a
recommender service based on other articles you have stored.
Zotero -The Next-Generation Research Tool
“Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect,
Directory of Research Tools
Bamboo DiRT
"Bamboo DiRT is a registry of digital research tools for scholarly use. Developed by
Project Bamboo, Bamboo DiRT makes it easy for digital humanists and others
conducting digital research to find and compare resources ranging from content
management systems to music OCR, statistical analysis packages to mindmapping
software."
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Tutorials and Guides on Research and Citation Tools
How to Make Prudent Choices about Your Tools
ProfHacker post from August 2013 on how to think about choosing the tools you
use for research.
Research Management: One Ring to Rule Them All
July 2013 post written by a GT librarian on research and reference management
tools. From the Academic PKM blog. Discusses the current state of research tools.
Choosing a Citation Manager
Gives some good advice on choosing a citation management software and
compares Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote, and EndNote Web.
Citation and Research Management Tools
Guide from the Metropolitan New York Library Council. Guide has comparisons and
pages for Zotero, Mendeley, Qiqqa, Refworks, EndNote, BibMe, and EasyBib.
Citation Management Tools
guide from the University of Findlay with a table suggesting a citation tool based on
what user wants to do. Suggestions include BibMe, EasyBib, EndNote Web,
Mendeley, Qiqqa, and Zotero. Below the table is a list of comparison charts of
citation management tools from other research guides.
Colwiz -Review
One of the few reviews so far of Colwiz.
colwiz Video Tutorials
Page of tutorials offered by the creators of colwiz.
Comparison of Reference Management Software
Wikipedia article that compares approximately 30 software programs, and compares
a large set of features.
EndNote Guide
Guide by the GT librarian who teaches classes on EndNote. Includes information on
both EndNote and EndNote Web.
EndNote Tutorials
Tutorials created by the company that produces EndNote.
Managing Your References
guide from Oxford University Library. This page has comparison tables for Refworks,
EndNote, EndNote Web, Zotero, Mendeley, ColWiz, and Papers.
Mendeley Resource Center
In the "For Researchers" section includes guides on how to use Mendeley to find
and manage references and share with colleagues.
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