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University Computing Service
Selecting a Reference Management System23rd March 2010
Rosemary Rodd [email protected]@ucs.cam.ac.uk
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General Information Objectives: select the best reference management
program FOR YOU Pre-requisites: prior use of a wordprocessing
program and web browser Duration & Break: 15 minutes Course Material: slides Delivery Style: lecturer Follow-on courses: EndNote Desktop, EndNote Web
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Too Much Choice!!
Possibilities include:
o MS Word’s in-built bibliography feature - free as part of Wordo EndNote Desktop - £89o EndNote Web - Free for Cambridge University memberso Reference Manager (Windows only) - £180o Procite (Windows only) - £180o Zotero - free to download open sourceo Mendeley - free to download open sourceo Papers - £30 No citation feature. o BibTeX - free, but complicated to learn/integrate with document
Multi-Stage Process
o Collecting references
o Reading the material (I hope!)
o Citing into a document which represents your own original work.
Programs are not equally good at handling each stage
Follow the herd
If everyone else in your department uses a particular program, you may be well advised to do the same.
o Peer assistance.
o Ease of exchanging files.
o Output is likely to conform to local standards.
Where are your references??
• Somewhere in cyberspace?
• Somewhere on your computer, but you don’t know where?
• In your documents folder?
Does it matter?
YES!!!
If you can’t be sure whether important data is backed up or not.
If you CAN’T back up your data because you can’t find it.
If you can’t access your data because someone else’s servers are down.
If you over-write your data because you are confused about which is the most recent version.
If your partner over-writes your data because they are confused!
If the CIA want your reading list.
MS Word
• Little ability to harvest references from online sources: must be typed in.
• Reference layout can be changed without re-typing by using layout styles
• No facility to modify layouts.
• References are stored inside your normal word documents and backed up with them.
EndNote Desktop
• Excellent ability to harvest online references. Can be complicated to set up.
• Reference layout can be changed without retyping using output styles
• Output styles can be edited.
• References should be stored in the documents folder, but the unwary user can easily select an obscure (and dangerous!) location.
• Poor warning messages if you are about to overwrite an existing file when creating a new one and dangerous default file naming.
EndNote Web
• Excellent ability to harvest from online sources. Simple to set up.
• Reference layout can be changed without retyping using output styles
• No facility for user to modify output styles
• References stored on Thomson Reuters’ servers in the US
Reference Manager
• Excellent ability to harvest online references. Can be complicated to set up.
• Reference layout can be changed without retyping using output styles.
• Output styles can be modified by user.
• References should be in the documents folder but, as with EndNote desktop, it’s possible for a naïve user to set up a different location by mistake.
Zotero
• Excellent ability to harvest references online. Simple to set up.
• Reference layout can be changed without retyping using output styles.
• Only “power users” can modify output styles.
• References are stored inside the local Firefox preferences folder and also synched with Zotero servers, but this can be turned off.
An unwary user might assume references are NOT stored on the local machine.
Mendeley
• Doesn’t directly search online sources: mainly intended as a repository of PDF files discovered by other means.
• Reference layout can be changed without retyping using output styles.
• Only “power users” can modify output styles.
• References are stored inside the user’s Library directory, but synched to Mendeley’s servers
BibTeX
• Doesn’t search online sources.• Reference layout can be changed using
output styles.• Users can modify output styles• References are stored as a plain text file in
the documents folder
GIGO!
http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/
Quality Control Quality Control
Free Internet tutorials on a range of subject areas produced by a consortium of UK universities to give students the skills needed to evaluate information sources.
Mostly aimed at undergraduates, but still of some use at postgraduate level to give a broad view of what professional sites are available.
QuickTime™ and aH.264 decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
Better than working….
Gloucestershire Reintegration Service, (Teachers TV: 2006) http://www.teachers.tv/video/3488 (downloaded 25/03/10)
Available under a Creative Archive Licence.
I downloaded the “Ruff behaviour” video from Teacher’s TV to embed it in this presentation.
Before doing this I clicked the “licence information” link to check the terms on which the original copyright holder had provided it.
This confirmed that it was OK for me to use it for educational purposes in my own work, provided the authors were acknowledged.
Am I legal?
Copyright Law in the UK
Be aware of the “fair use” regulations on copyright materials.
If you feel brave you can read 69 pages of advice from the University’s legal department
http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/cam-only/offices/legal/copyright/copyright.pdf
Basically you should not download, photocopy, or scan whole books or journals unless they are so old that they are no longer in copyright or the copyright owner has given you permission. EDITIONS of very old works may still be copyrighted by the publisher who has made them available).
How can I use this video?
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http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/electronicresources/
Quality ControlQuality sources for postgraduate research
The University Library’s Electronic Resources web page should be your first point of departure for online research as it lists all the databases to which the UL subscribes. These change very frequently, so it’s a good idea to return to the page every so often.
Quality Control WoK/WoS
o Owned by Thomson Reuters who also own EndNote, Procite and Reference Manager
o Because these are a “stable” of products they are designed for effective interoperability (e.g. Zotero can harvest citations from WoK, but can’t automatically find full text articles).
o Authoritative, with human oversight, and tools to investigate relative importance of papers (e.g. controlling for heavy citation of BAD science by articles refuting them).
Quality ControlAvoiding plagiarism
Correct referencing helps to avoid unintentional plagiarism.
Working through the online tutorial produced by Elizabeth Boling, Theodore Frick, Meltem Albayrak-Karahan, Joseph Defazio and Noriko Matsumura at Indiana University Bloomington will help if you are unsure when to insert references to sources you have consulted.
https://www.indiana.edu/~istd/
(and you can even print yourself a certificate at the end if you complete their final test with no errors).
Quality ControlAvoiding plagiarism
You could also take a look at
http://www.plagiarismadvice.org/
and the interactive subject-based tutorials available from the University of Leicester’s website http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/ssds/sd/ld/resources/study/plagiarism-tutorial
You need to be aware that the term “plagiarism” is now used for instances of careless referencing as well as deliberate, dishonest cheating.
Quality ControlNo one product is right for everyone
o A user with minimal computer skills, but good, fast & accurate typing may be safest with MS Word. The best choice if few useful references are available to harvest online (e.g. critical edition of 18th century letters).
o Someone in a department where everyone uses BibTeX may get on well by fitting in with the rest.
o If you enjoy experimenting with gadgets, you may be happy using a mix of Zotero, Mendeley and EndNote.
o In a discipline which requires complex reference layouts, EndNote desktop may be the only viable option.
o If you are a spy you do not want the CIA to look at your reading list!