A Bibliographic Playlist: Online Reference, Recommender, & Collaborative Academic Tools
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A Bibliographic Playlist: Online Reference, Recommender, & Collaborative Academic Tools
Lorena O’English
http://pbj.ctlt.wsu.edu/[email protected]
Yahoo/MSN/AIM IM: wsulorena
The Problem…
Keeping track of websites, articles, gray literature, and books for scholarly research can be difficult and require complex systems or multiple systems
Reference manager software = $-$$$
Research is often collaborative – but most reference management solutions are not (or at least not very…)
A Potential Solution…
“Social Bookmarking” sites allow you to share links to webpages with others (either specific people or the general public) i.e. http://del.icio.us
Many social bookmarking sites only work with open websites, but now there are free academic bookmarking sites that allow access to scholarly articles (even those from subscription databases)
Increasingly these sites serve multiple functions: reference managers (including citation styles), discovery/ search engines, delivery/fufillment services, recommendation/suggestion engines, and collaborative spaces
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Obligatory Technical/Vocabulary Slides
The OpenURL Standard Link Resolvers and
Link Resolver(provides access to an appropriate copy for WSU users, if available)
Digital Object identifiers (DOIs)
A way to identify something (generally an article, but could also be journals, books, data, etc.) along with associated info (metadata)
Provided by participating publishers through DOI Registration Agencies (i.e. www.crossref.org) for “persistent identification of scholarly content.”
Can find in both electronic and print versions of articles Generally takes to a publisher page, that may or may not provide
fulltext links for WSU affiliates…it depends…
Tagging as Metadata
Metadata: assigned data about data “Tagging” resources with descriptive indexing terms "...bottom-up classifications which lack rigour..." (The Observer) - No
promises of consistency...internally or externally... A way to self-organize information (articles, website, blog posts,
bookmarks, etc.) Can be social and searchable
Library of Congress Subject Headings
Del.icio.us
The Tools Endnote Web (www.myendnoteweb.com)
Zotero (www.zotero.org)
Connotea (www.connotea.org)
And CiteULike
And RefWorks, EndNote, ProCite…
EndNote Web
Good for current EndNote users
Web version provided free to all WSU affiliates via the WSU Libraries subscription to Web of Science
Librarian Jane Scales teaches EndNote Web classes via WSU’s HRS training office
http://wiki.wsu.edu/wsuwiki/Endnote_Web
Available as a Firefox 2.0 extension Based on your computer, but can be loaded on a flash drive for
portability and record transfer.
Can use with all open webpages, and many/most WSU Libraries article databases via OpenURL/ Find it@WSU.
Allows tags, notes, and screenshots to be associated with articles & other resources
Can import and export citations to EndNote, RIS and other reference manager formats using multiple citation styles; includes Microsoft Word plug-in for attaching citations (in correct style) to documents
Can attach (and search) associated PDFs
From the Center for History and New Media, at George Mason University.
Forthcoming: Web-based, collaborative and recommender capabilities…
Adding at the Article level
Opens application
Shows stored image of page…sometimes
Links to article via Find it @WSU
Subject headings/descriptors are automatic tags; tags can be added or deleted. Tags can be searched individually or in combination.
Adding at the Results level
Web-based and easily accessible
Can use with all open webpages, Griffin, and many WSU Libraries article databases via DOIs and OpenURL(or at the worst, copied or manual entry with no article full text)
Can import and export to EndNote, RIS, and other reference manager formats; resources can be archived
Can attach PDF files for specific articles
Can keep references private, limit to specified group, or make public
Collaborative – can share comments on resources (public, private, or group)
Recommender/suggestion engine - discovery beyond search via tagging, related articles, and related users (but you can search it as well )
Provided for free via scholarly journal Nature
Connotea Zotero Pro
Bookmarklet-based Private, public or collaborative Discovery Web-based Archivable/formats Sponsored by Nature Group
Con Works best with DOI Often requires some manual
entry Used mostly in the sciences Doesn’t work with all library
databases/publishers
Pro Browser-based OpenURL standard makes
most library resources accessible
Integrated with MS Word for adding references via plugin
Archivable/formats Rapidly developing (GMU
home, and grant $$$)
Con Requires Firefox 2.0 Sits on a computer drive (for
now) Just you (for now) Doesn’t work with all library
databases/publishers
Wikipedia: Comparison of Reference Manager Software
Takeaways
HRS Classes starting in the spring
Tailored workshops for graduate student groups, etc. available on request ([email protected])
Want to try it on your own?
IMPORTANT: These resources are NOT formally supported by the WSU Libraries!