1. http://www.flickr.com/photos/xuecaro/2895916285 / Reference Management Tools: Which One is Right for You? Ania Dymarz, Life Sciences Yolanda Koscielski, Criminology & Psychology

2. Reference Management Software Agenda Common features and functionality What do you need? (Quiz) An overview of specific resources – RefWorks – Zotero – Mendeley

3. Reference management How are you handling it now? What tools have you tried? http://www.flickr.com/photos/lollyknit/1518397371/ https://www.surveymonkey.com / s/Z6M59ZB

4. Reference Management Tools: What’s the point? http://www.flickr.com/photos/chillmimi/7879145394/

5. Reference Management Software: Common Features and Functionality http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmazzola1/8189969366/

6. Commonalities Import citations from various places – Ways to import vary (direct, PDF, browser) Store citations in one place Manipulate citations – Folders, annotations, editing, searching, trends Share citations – Shared account, user groups, online reading lists

7. Commonalities Centralized access to your research materials – PDFs or Where Can I Get This? Link Bibliography creation – Standalone or paper-integrated In-text citation insertion – e.g., RefWorks’ Write-n-Cite

8. Citation management: What do you need? What do you need? vs. What would be nice to have? Free? Compatible with library resources? Allows for collaboration? User support? Easy to learn? Able to store/manage PDFs of articles?

9. QUIZ TIME! Which Citation Manager is Right for Me? Please take 5 minutes to fill out the self-quiz. We will then review our results Take a Bite!

10. An overview of three different citation management resources http://www.flickr.com/photos/xavitalleda/6809106652/

11. Subscription-based (library pays) 2 parts: – Main web-based citation management platform – Downloadable plug-in for inserting citations in your paper, creating bibliography (Write-n-Cite) Data stored on Canadian servers (Scholars Portal)

12. Demo

13. Advantages: SFU Library support available Robust interface Works well with library products, databases, & Google Scholar Friendly to citation entries from a wide variety of bibliography types (books, magazines, journals…) A citation management software “classic”

14. Disadvantages: Not without glitches, particularly Write-n-Cite, and if working between WnC versions or PC – Mac platforms Learning investment –economical if you have lots of citations Weaker for social networking extra features Take a Bite!

15. FOIPPA By Hoohaaphotos: http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1261/5099987038_61ff5143ea_z.jpg

16. FOIPPA Background: legislation & cloud computing Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act [RSBC 1996] CHAPTER 165 30.1 A public body must ensure that personal information in its custody or under its control is stored only in Canada and accessed only in Canada… http://www.sfu.ca/itservices/about/depts/cio/cioblog/articles/2012/don- t-cloud-sfu-data.html http://www.sfu.ca/itservices/about/depts/cio/cioblog/articles/2012/don- t-cloud-sfu-data.html

18. https://www.zotero.org/ Free, open-source First released 2006; latest version: Zotero 4.0.1.2 3 parts: – Plug-in-based citation management software – Plug-in for inserting citations in your paper from word processing software, creating bibliography – Web version available: access personal content and connect with other researchers

19. Works best with Firefox, but also with Chrome and Safari Downloads a variety of record formats from most SFU databases & from web pages Can grab image of page if metadata not available Can grab metadata for PDFs Integrates with Word, Open Office, LaTeX

20. Creating collections http://www.zotero.org/support/screencast_tutorials/collections Word Integration Plugin http://www.zotero.org/support/word_processor_integration Demo

21. Advantages: Quick to learn, simple to use Works with nearly every information source Can sync references from multiple computers Simple to share sources with others Can take notes, tag records

22. Disadvantages: Works best with Firefox Not “officially” supported at SFU but large user community (forums, disciplinary lists), documentation, open-source development Free space limitations

23. Let’s take a look: 1.Importing Citations – Import a citation from the catalog (1) – Import a citation to an article with pdf (4) 2.Manipulating your citations – Create a folder (1) – Add a note (2) – Create a bibliography (3) Take a Bite!

24. Started in 2008, sold to Elsevier 2013 Free – 2 GB personal space * Three parts – Mendeley Desktop For storing and organizing PDFs and citations For generating bibliographies (via a word processing program) – Mendeley Web For sharing documents and networking with other researchers – Word & Open Office Plugin *There are also ‘premium’ (read ‘not free’) accounts available.

25. Mendeley Web interface:

26. Mendeley Desktop interface:

27. Advantages – Allows you to drag and drop PDFs (including entire folders of PDFs) into Mendeley and it will extract metadata for citations – Can ask Mendeley to “watch” a folder and automatically import new documents into your library – Can sync references across multiple computers – Can annotate/highlight/tag documents – Sharing with public and private groups; networking with other researchers

28. Disadvantages – Not as seamless with databases as most other citation managers E.g., it’s difficult to add batches of citations – Would be difficult to use on campus due to the required plug-in for creating a bibliography – “Not officially supported” by the Library – Free space limitations

29. An overview: Importing Documents into your Library (2 min.): http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=qRiAIaqdAOg http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=qRiAIaqdAOg Organizing Your Library (3 min.): http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=VD1z0boSpQY http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=VD1z0boSpQY Generating Citations with the MS Word and OpenOffice Plug-ins (2 min.): http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=zkrVbBSrK_w http://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=zkrVbBSrK_w Demo

30. Let’s take a look: http://www.mendeley.com/http://www.mendeley.com/ 1.Let’s find research groups in your area of interest? – Explore popular papers & active users in your group 2. Look for a specific paper. – Find info on readership stats & related research Take a Bite!

31. Mendeley Free account – 4 members – One private group – 100MB Upgrade $50/month = 5 group members https://www.mendeley.com/u pgrade/team/ Zotero Free account – Unlimited members – Unlimited groups – Storage space same as groups owner Upgrade storage i.e. $20/yr = 2 GB http://www.zotero.org/suppor t/storage Group Comparison

32. Which One is Right for You? http://www.flickr.com/photos/xavitalleda/6809106652/ http://tinyurl.com/ mpbzvd8

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