Purpose of this blog
Nov. 23rd, 2004 11:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyjadwigaOk, so I broke down and got a livejournal account, so I could post notes about my research and other stuff.
Right now what I'm really excited about is http://google.scholar.com, Google Scholar. It's not the be-all and end-all of research browsers, but it's a good adjunct to regular database searching, and for the people who don't have access to good index and/or library union catalog databases, it's a great boon. My co-workers at the library are fairly impressed with it, too.
Another thing I'm excited about is our library's trial account on Refworks. www.refworks.com
For those who are familiar with Endnote, it's like that but on the web. For everyone else, it's a bibliographic citation manager that lives on the web; it lets you import citations for books, articles, websites, etc. from index databases, and/or enter them individually; you can search your database of citations, you can sort it into folders and you can generate citations/bibliographies in whatever style you like. :) If the university doesn't get a subscription, I will probably buy a subscription of my own. :)
Right now what I'm really excited about is http://google.scholar.com, Google Scholar. It's not the be-all and end-all of research browsers, but it's a good adjunct to regular database searching, and for the people who don't have access to good index and/or library union catalog databases, it's a great boon. My co-workers at the library are fairly impressed with it, too.
Another thing I'm excited about is our library's trial account on Refworks. www.refworks.com
For those who are familiar with Endnote, it's like that but on the web. For everyone else, it's a bibliographic citation manager that lives on the web; it lets you import citations for books, articles, websites, etc. from index databases, and/or enter them individually; you can search your database of citations, you can sort it into folders and you can generate citations/bibliographies in whatever style you like. :) If the university doesn't get a subscription, I will probably buy a subscription of my own. :)
