A Bibliographic Playlist: Online Reference, Recommender,

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A Bibliographic Playlist Online Reference,
Recommender, Collaborative Academic Tools

• Lorena OEnglish
• http//pbj.ctlt.wsu.edu/oenglish
• oenglish_at_wsu.edu
• Yahoo/MSN/AIM IM wsulorena

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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)

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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/sugge
  stion engines, and collaborative spaces
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Obligatory Technical/Vocabulary Slides
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The OpenURL Standard
Link Resolvers and
Link Resolver (provides access to an appropriate
copy for WSU users, if available)
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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
  affiliatesit depends

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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
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The Tools

• Endnote Web (www.myendnoteweb.com)
• Zotero (www.zotero.org)
• Connotea (www.connotea.org)

And CiteULike
And RefWorks, EndNote, ProCite
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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 WSUs HRS training office
• http//wiki.wsu.edu/wsuwiki/Endnote_Web

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• 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_at_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

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Adding at the Article level
Opens application
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Shows stored image of pagesometimes
Links to article via Find it _at_WSU
Subject headings/descriptors are automatic tags
tags can be added or deleted. Tags can be
searched individually or in combination.
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Adding at the Results level
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• 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

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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
• Doesnt 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)
• Doesnt work with all library databases/publishers
  

Wikipedia Comparison of Reference Manager
Software
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Takeaways

• HRS Classes starting in the spring
• Tailored workshops for graduate student groups,
  etc. available on request (oenglish_at_wsu.edu)
• Want to try it on your own?
• IMPORTANT These resources are NOT formally
  supported by the WSU Libraries!