Reference Management with Zotero
Zotero
The reference management system Zotero helps you collect, sort, cite and share your research sources. References are stored online and locally on your computer. If you want to be able to use the sync function you create a personal account on Zotero’s web site. Click on ”Register” in the upper right corner of the page and enter your data.
Link to “A quick start guide”
You can also download a plugin for Word which allows you to work with Zotero directly in Word. Both citations and bibliographies can be inserted directly and bibliographies are generated automatically when you add citations to your text.
Zotero is an extension to the web browser Mozilla Firefox which therefore also must be installed on your computer.
How to do advanced searches in ACM
Here is a short introduction on how to build search strings and do advanced searches in ACM.
Find e-books at BTH
In this short clip you’ll learn how to find the BTH e-books through the library catalogue LIBRIS.
SwePub
A new search service was launched in late 2009 by the National Library and its drive for LIBRIS, in cooperation with the university libraries in Göteborg, Linköping, Lund and Uppsala. It’s called SwePub and its purpose will be to become a single entry to the Swedish scientific publishing. SwePub offers the opportunity to browse through articles, conference papers, theses, etc., in the form of full-text, abstracts or citations. Currently SwePubs content is located in its own search service, but will eventually be integrated into LIBRIS search service.
The only material included is published publications and the same publication may appear in different versions, e.g. both as conference paper and journal article. When publications has been done in collaboration between universities, they have, if possible, been merged into a common reference, as well as in the case of registration of duplications. Another occurrence to consider is that scientists’ names can be registered in various versions at different times and universities.
SwePub contains publications of the following categories:
- Artistic work – work or report from an artistic research and/or development project.
- Journal article – article published in a scientific or other journal.
- Book – monographic publication in one or more physical parts, intended to form a complete unity.
- Doctoral thesis – approved dissertation for Doctoral degree.
- Research review – review/survey published in a scientific journal.
- Book chapter – independent part of a monographic publication or an editorial collection. A number of independent works published together, possibly selected by editors for a certain theme.
- Conference paper – paper published in editorial proceedings or other conference publication.
- Licentiate thesis – approved dissertation for Licentiate degree.
- Other publication – other type of publication, e.g. poster, event, concert, exhibition, performance or textiles.
- Patent – patent document
- Editorial proceedings - editorship for official proceeding or conference publication.
- Report – publication that e.g. is part of a report series.
- Research review – review/survey published in a scientific journal.
- Review – book review published in a journal or newspaper.
- Editorial collection – editorship for a number of separate works published collectively, often selected for a certain theme.
The publications include the following types:
- Peer-reviewed – article or conference paper reviewed by independent researchers and considered to meet the requirements for a scholar publication.
- Other academic – other publication intended for the scholarly society, e.g. research reports, doctoral and licentiate theses.
- Popular scientific – publication intended to mediate scholar information to a general audience. This can also be articles of e.g. polemic nature.
It is possible to create references of the records in SwePub in several formats; Harvard, RIS, RefWorks, Zotero etc. More about references can be found in Tools in LIBRIS Help.
Availability of the SwePub data
The bibliographic data is freely available via OAI PMH, SRU and Xsearch
OpenURL Referrer
OpenURL Referrer is a web browser extension (available for Firefox and Internet Explorer) for converting bibliographic citations to URLs and available for downloading from OCLCs web site OpenURL Referrer The browser extension requires access to some kind of Link Resolver (e.g. SFX). In SwePub you can find the OpenURL Referrer link at the bottom of the single record view (Overview).
Read more and make use of SwePub at:
http://www.swepub.kb.se/?language=en
Source: http://www.swepub.kb.se/help.jsp
Carolina Moberg
2009-12-21
Bing
Bing is a search engine owned by Microsoft. It is the successor to Microsoft’s earlier search engine Live search and was launched in June 2009.
Bing is a competitor to Google and Microsoft has said it should be seen as a “Decision Engine” instead of a search engine.
One nice thing about Bing is that it each day changes the background image on the search page. The motives are often famous places in the world.
You can read more about Bing and the various functions on the site Discover Bing.
Try Bing and compare it with Google – what differences exist? When seeking information it is important to search different search engines and databases to get as good results as possible.
Link tip – the site Bing vs. Google compares the two search engines.
/Ted Gunnarsson
2009-12-15
Refero – an Anti-plagiarism Tutorial
Refero is a web based tutorial which helps you understand what plagiarism is. You also get tips on how you can quote and paraphrase correctly in order to avoid plagiarism. The tutorial contains 16 pages and takes about 30 minutes to go through. You may choose if you want to use the tutorial with or without flash-animations.
Link to Refero – an Anti-plagiarism Tutorial (opens in new window).
Jenny Gunnarsson
2010-10-14
The Library Catalogue
In the BTH Library catalogue you can search among about 35 000 titles that are held by the libraries at Gräsvik or Piren.
You will find the link to the Library catalogue on the Library webpage. It is a catalogue of the 35 000 titles, mainly in English and Swedish, that are held at the libraries at Gräsvik and Piren. The Library catalogue mainly contains records of print books and journals, but you can also find some records of other media types. Ejournals and ebooks are registered in special lists and catalogues, not in the Library catalogue. The subjects covered in the literature correspond to the educations offered at BTH.
Facilities of the OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) Library catalogue.
You can:
• Search and reserve books
• See when borrowed books are due
• Check what books you have at home and their due dates
• Renew loans
• Check what reservations you have made and your number in the queue
• Remove reservations
• Change PIN
Enter the word you want to search for (i.e. words from the title or the author’s name). It does not matter in what order you type the words. Neither is it necessary to enter all the information you have about a book (i.e. the whole title or the author name), instead pick the most specific (most infrequent) words from the title or author name.
However, using correct spelling is very important. If you are not certain about the spelling, masking (?) or truncating (*) might be a good idea. When masking, you replace the letters you are not sure of with a question mark.
E.g. Lund??ist (Lundquist, Lundkvist) or ubiq??tous (ubiquitous).
Truncation is useful when you want to do a simultaneous search on several word forms, e.g. comput* where the words can have different endings, for instance computer, computation etc.
When you have found some books you are interested in you can reserve them if they are borrowed by another patron. You can do this directly in the web catalogue with your Library card number and PIN. You will receive an e-mail when you can collect the book.
If the book is on the shelf in one of the libraries you can easily get it yourself by:
1. Checking which department has the book (Gräsvik)
2. Checking which shelf the books is at – 519
3. Noting the authors last name (if no information about author – see book title) – Baase
EndNote tutorial
The library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has done a very nice and easy to use tutorial on how to use EndNote. In the tutorial you find texts and illustrations as well as short films on how to get started with EndNote, how to create a library, cite while you write etc.
EndNote X2 tutorial
The easy guide to referencing
In this guide we look into these parts in the art of referencing:
* Introduction
* What’s in a reference?
* How to make a reference (from book)
* How to make a reference (from catalogue)
* Using references
* Using references-test your knowledge
* Using a bibliography
* Reference citation styles
Creating citations in LIBRIS
In the Swedish library catalogue for university libraries, LIBRIS, there is a very useful tool for creating citations to books and other publications. With the aid of this function you won’t need to write down all your citations by hand, as you can simply cut and paste them into your text or import them to a reference management system like EndNoteWeb.
Creating citations in LIBRIS
Start by finding the publication you want to create a citation for. In this example we want to create a citation for the book Crimeware by Markus Jakobsson and Zulfikar Ramzan. When you’ve found the book in LIBRIS, click the link “Cite” in the grey bar below the title information.
Now we’ll get a page where we can choose between two different options: Save as file or cut and paste.
From the column on the right you can easily copy the citation in the format you want and paste it directly into your reference list. At this point there are only a few reference systems to choose from though.
In the box to the left you have the option of downloading the citation as a file to your computer. This file can then be imported to a reference management system.
You can choose to save the citations in the following formats:
- Plain text - A simple text format for the easy identification of a work
- Harvard - A common reference or citation format which presents sources in a standard manner
- Oxford - Another common reference or citation format which presents sources in a standard manner
- BibTex - A reference format used together with the typesetting system “LaTeX”
- RefWorks - A tagged bibliographic format for handling references
- RIS - A tagged bibliographic format for handling references in reference handling systems such as EndNote, ProCite and RefManager
- MARC-XML - The MARC record in the standard MARC-XML format
(Taken from the LIBRIS help pages)
Importing citations from LIBRIS to EndNoteWeb
Since all students at BTH have free access to EndNoteWeb we’ll take a closer look at this program.
To import the citation to EndNoteWeb choose “.RIS” in the box “Format” and click “Save as file”.
Now choose where on your computer you want to save the .RIS-file. When you’ve done this you can log on to EndNoteWeb and upload the citation. In EndNoteWeb, choose the tab “Collect” and then “Import References”. Find your saved .RIS-file and choose “RefMan RIS” in the box “Filter”. Click “Import” to add the citation to your list.
Zotero
If you’re using Mozilla Firefox you can download a free plugin called Zotero for your browser. Zotero is a reference management system which is fully compatible with LIBRIS. When you’ve found a certain book or received a list of hits you can easily import the information from LIBRIS to Zotero by clicking on the small icon which appears in the in the browser’s adress field. You can read more about Zotero on www.zotero.org.
Links
/Ted Gunnarsson
2008-12-11
