Bibliographies michaelmas 2013

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Managing your bibliography Isla Kuhn Reader Services Librarian, Medical Library CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY MEDICAL LIBRARY

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Managing your bibliography

Isla KuhnReader Services Librarian, Medical Library

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARYMEDICAL LIBRARY

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• Keep track

• Keep your sources safe

• Keep sane …

Referencing: boring(?) but important

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Which tools?

More? Others?

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SimilaritiesEndnote EndnoteWeb Zotero Mendeley

Create folders/files

Attach PDFs/files

Link to full-text

Cost

Desktop element

Work offline?

Web element

Sharing

“Dynamic” organisation

Cite-while-you-write

iPad app

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Which tools?

• Endnote

• EndnoteWeb – www.myendnoteweb.com

• Zotero – www.zotero.org

• Mendeley – www.mendeley.com

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SimilaritiesEndnote EndnoteWeb Zotero Mendeley

Create folders/files

Attach PDFs/files

Link to full-text

Cost

Desktop element -ish

Work offline? (standalone)

Web element -ish

Sharing -ish

“Dynamic” organisation

Cite-while-you-write

iPad app? (£6.99) (free) (free)

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• PDF-Xchange Viewer www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer

highlight, annotate and work interactively with PDFs

• Delicious www.delicious.com

social bookmarking service that lets you save, tag and bundle useful websites

• Qiqqa www.qiqqa.com

storage and full-text searching of PDFs - interfaces with Mendeley

• Dropbox www.dropbox.com cloud file sharing/storage

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Help!

Isla Kuhn

Reader Services Librarian

Medical Library

email: [email protected]

phone: (01223) 336750

web: library.medschl.cam.ac.uk

Thank you.