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Making Sense of a Pile of PDFs
- 1. Making Sense of a Pile of PDFs Digital Workflows, Citation Management, and Tools to Simplify Your Research Process Lauren Pressley, Director of the UW Tacoma Library March 2, 2016
- 2. Agenda Overview of the issue Zotero Refworks Mendeley Endnote Sente Wrap-up
- 3. Overview
- 4. Citation Managers What are they? Supports a variety of citation styles and can insert citations in Word or Open Office Create lists of works cited Organizes PDFs and files for future use and reference More work to set up, saves time in long run
- 5. Things to Consider Does your department or discipline have a preference? What capabilities are you looking for? What interface do you like best? Do you have a software or browser preference, and how would that impact your options?
- 6. What you’ll get out of today’s session A general overview of several tools A glimpse at interfaces and workflows (Hopefully!) A direction for what to investigate further
- 7. Zotero
- 8. Zotero Process Find articles • From a database, on the web, etc Add to citation manager • Click browser plugin Modify within the manager • Edit fields, interact with PDFs, etc Insert citations • Using plugins, add citations in Word or Google Docs
- 9. Zotero: The Experience Free Web Based Can access and edit offline Open Source Mobile and Apps Supported by the UW Libraries
- 10. Zotero: The Functionality Enter in-text citations offline Insert citations into Google Docs Attach up to 300MB files (pay for additional) Attach web page or screen captures Addon to edit PDFs within program
- 11. Homescreen
- 12. Input data
- 13. Citing in a document
- 14. RefWorks
- 15. Refworks Process Find articles • From a database, on the web, etc Add to citation manager • Click browser plugin Modify within the manager • Edit fields, interact with PDFs, etc Insert citations • Using plugins, add citations in Word or Google Docs
- 16. RefWorks: The Experience Free (UW license) Web Based—only Owned by ProQuest Mobile, though no Apps Supported by the UW Libraries and the UW Tacoma Library
- 17. RefWorks: The Functionality Insert citations into Google Docs Attach up to 100MB files
- 18. Homescreen
- 19. Input data
- 20. Citing in a document
- 21. Mendeley
- 22. Mendeley Process Upload PDFs • Or you can add from a database, on the web, etc Add to citation manager • Click browser plugin Modify within the manager • Edit fields, interact with PDFs, etc Insert citations • Using plugins, add citations in Word
- 23. Mendeley: The Experience Free Web Based Owned by Elsevier Mobile and Apps Supported by the UW Libraries
- 24. Mendeley: The Functionality Enter in-text citations offline Attach up to 2G files (pay for additional) Edit PDFs within program
- 25. Homescreen
- 26. Input data
- 27. Input data (with magic!)
- 28. Citing in a document
- 29. EndNote
- 30. EndNote Process Find Articles • From a database, on the web, etc Add to citation manager • Click browser plugin Modify within the manager • Edit fields, interact with PDFs, etc Insert citations • Using plugins, add citations in Word
- 31. EndNote: The Experience Web Free (UW license) Web Based Owned by Thomson Reuters Mobile Supported by the UW Libraries Desktop $249.95 Installed software Owned by Thomson Reuters App
- 32. EndNote: The Functionality Web Insert citations into Google Docs Attach files (2G) Desktop Enter in-text citations offline Insert citations into Google Docs Attach files Edit PDFs within program
- 33. Homescreen
- 34. Input data
- 35. Citing in a document
- 38. Sente
- 39. Sente Process Upload PDFs • Manually add citation information OR search in Sente Add to citation manager • Click browser plugin Modify within the manager • Edit fields, interact with PDFs, etc Insert citations, quotes, etc • Using plugins, add citations in Word
- 40. Sente: The Experience Free (up to 100 references) Apple-based only Can access and edit offline Owned by Third Street Software Apps
- 41. Sente: The Functionality Enter in-text citations offline Attach files Attach web page or screen captures Edit PDFs within the program
- 42. Homescreen
- 43. Input data
- 44. Citing in a document
- 45. Agenda Overview of the issue Zotero Refworks Mendeley Endnote Sente Wrap-up
- 46. Find Out More
- 47. Other Things to Consider Online file storage PDF markup software Would sessions on those topics be useful?
- 48. Questions? Comments? Get in touch! pressley@uw.edu