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Organize Your Research Using Online Tools

Organize Your Research Using Online Tools. Lisa Beidel and Dan Lipcan Thomas J. Watson Library July 30 and August 26, 2008. What we’ll cover. Administrative tools Notification tools Image/picture tools Bibliographic tools. Administrative tools. Google Docs & Spreadsheets Google Notebook

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Organize Your Research Using Online Tools

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  1. Organize Your Research Using Online Tools Lisa Beidel and Dan Lipcan Thomas J. Watson LibraryJuly 30 and August 26, 2008

  2. What we’ll cover • Administrative tools • Notification tools • Image/picture tools • Bibliographic tools

  3. Administrative tools • Google Docs & Spreadsheets • Google Notebook • Zoho

  4. Notification tools • Saved Searches via My Library Account in WATSONLINE • Google Alerts • RSS (reminder and new)

  5. Saved Searches via My Library Account in WATSONLINE Set up saved searches to: • Email you when new WATSONLINE materials match your search criteria • Keep a list of one-click searches • WATSONLINE

  6. Google Alerts • Free, but Google account required • Email notifications for your search criteria • Choose source categories • Choose frequency of email • Register many email addresses with one Google account • Google Account

  7. RSS (reminder) • Automatic notification of new web content • Free, but “feed reader” required • Works like a magazine subscription • Watson Web 2.0 class: RSS page • Google Reader • (Kind of) new: WATSONLINE E-journals A-Z list • New: Page2RSS

  8. Image/picture tools • Flickr • Picasa

  9. Bibliographic tools • WATSONLINE: saved/marked records • (Web-based reference managers) • Zotero : research manager

  10. WATSONLINE save/mark records • Search it and save it • Export list • Import somewhere or share • WATSONLINE

  11. Web-based reference managers • Are probably not worth your time • So I will talk about Zotero instead • CiteULike.org • Connotea.org • Refbase.org

  12. Zotero : research manager • Very flexible and powerful • Save, annotate, organize, export • For Firefox browser only • Terminal-specific (not web-based) • Web-based version in development

  13. Zotero : getting it • Download Firefox browser • Download/install Zotero extension • Begin building your library • Firefox browser • Zotero.org

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