Organize Your Research Using Online Tools

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Organize Your Research Using Online Tools

• Lisa Beidel and Dan Lipcan
• Thomas J. Watson LibraryJuly 30 and August 26,
  2008

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What well cover

• Administrative tools
• Notification tools
• Image/picture tools
• Bibliographic tools

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Administrative tools

• Google Docs Spreadsheets
• Google Notebook
• Zoho

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Notification tools

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

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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

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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

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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

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Image/picture tools

• Flickr
• Picasa

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Bibliographic tools

• WATSONLINE saved/marked records
• (Web-based reference managers)
• Zotero research manager

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WATSONLINE save/mark records

• Search it and save it
• Export list
• Import somewhere or share
• WATSONLINE

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Web-based reference managers

• Are probably not worth your time
• So I will talk about Zotero instead
• CiteULike.org
• Connotea.org
• Refbase.org

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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

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Zotero getting it

• Download Firefox browser
• Download/install Zotero extension
• Begin building your library
• Firefox browser
• Zotero.org

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Thank you!http//libmma.org/portal/instruction/
Thomas J. Watson Library

• Lisa Beidel
• ext. 2344
• lisa.beidel

Dan Lipcan ext. 2982 daniel.lipcan