For Dr. Evans and cohort, February 10, 2012

1. Rebecca K. Miller
Heather Moorefield-Lang
Virginia Tech
February 2012

2. Rebecca is the College Librarian for Science,
Life Sciences, and Engineering
Heather is the College Librarian for Education
and Applied Social Sciences

3. APA Citations & Style Guide
Citation Management Tools
Organization & Task Management Tools
Research & Information Management
Q & A

4. Full Sized
Manual
(Also
comes in
Spiral
Bound)

5. Concise Rules.
Comes in Spiral
Bound (Smaller
book, smaller print,
easy to carry)
Essentially picks up
at Chapter 3 from
the full manual

6. Training Guide and
instructional
exercises to help
you with your APA
training

8. Author(s)
Date
Title Information
Source
Pages
Any other information

9. Example: Print Book
Friere, P. (2005). Pedagogy of the
oppressed. New York, NY: The Continuum
International.
Author Date Title (In Italics)
Publisher
location
Publisher (Without the
Publisher, Group, or Inc part
of the name)

10. Friere, P. (2005). Pedagogy of the
oppressed. Retrieved from
http://www.libbooks.com
Online information(You will notice that
they are no longer asking for retrieved
from dates)
No period for
electronic
references
Remember only first word is capitalized.

11. If you have found the article in print you will
reference it as a print item.
But if it is found in an electronic format then
you will give as much online information
that you can. (URL, DOI).
Database information is not needed.

12. Print Journal
Harlow, H. F. (1983). Fundamentals for
preparing psychology journal articles.
Journal of Comparative and Physiological
Psychology, 55, 893-896.
Title of article
Journal title (In italics)
Page
Numbers

13. Kenneth, I. A. (2000). A Buddhist response to
the nature of human rights. Journal of
Buddhist Ethics, 8. Retrieved from
http://www.cac.psu.edu/jbe/twocont.html
Website

14. Brownlie, D. (2001). Toward effective
poster presentations: An annotated
bibliography. European Journal of
Marketing, 41(11/12),1245-1283.
doi:10.1108/03090560710821163
doi: Digital Object
Identifier. A 12-18 digit
# assigned to an
Adobe Acrobat PDF.

15. Parker-Pope, T. (2008, May 6). Psychiatry
handbook linked to drug industry. The New
York Times. Retrieved from
http://www.nytimes.com

16. Virginia Tech. (2010, September, 29).
Undergraduate admissions: Is Virginia
Tech right for me? Retrieved from
http://www.admiss.vt.edu/

17. EndNote
Zotero
Mendeley

18. Strengths:
• Very sophisticated, robust product
• Available to all faculty and students at VT through a site
license
• No space limit for PDFs and other attachments
• Supported by VT Libraries, and a strong network of
other users
• Cite While You Write feature
Weaknesses:
• Steep(ish) learning curve
• No group/shared library function
• No real web component (other than EndNote Web)
• Expense (if researcher leaves VT)

19. Image from: http://www.hsl.unc.edu/Services/Tutorials/ENDNOTE/Get_started.htm

20. Strengths:
• Group library function
• Free
• Open source
• Intuitive/ease of use
• Cite While You Write Plug-ing
• Includes stand-alone & web-based components
• Syncing across devices
• Active user community
Weaknesses:
• 100 MB limit for attachments
• Support (since it’s not proprietary)

21. On the web
In your browser

22. Strengths:
• Free
• Desktop & web-based versions
• Syncing across devices
• Cite While You Write plug-in
• Social networking aspect
• Has an iPad/iPhone app
Weaknesses:
• 500 MB limit for attachments
• Support

23. This is the “web”
side—Mendeley
also has a desktop
version that will
sync with your
“web” version and
make sure that you
always have a local
copy of your library.

24. From: http://www.libraries.psu.edu/psul/lls/choose_citation_mgr.html

25. The collaboration
aspect is HUGE.
Consider whether or
not the tool is
capable of creating
group or shared
libraries.

26. Evernote
LiveBinders
icyte
Instapaper
To-Do List Tools

27.  Easy to add in notes,
bookmarks, sites,
anything you want to
remember
 Create notebooks to
categorize your material
 Use multiple devices

28.  Download an
Evernote Web
clipper that will
be a part of your
toolbar. Click on
it to save any
website.
Designate
notebooks.

29. • Allows you to organize webpages,
images, videos, and other documents
• Includes an easy web clipper
• You can view examples of LiveBinders
that have been made public:
http://livebinders.com/welcome
• Great for collaboration, organizing
websites and other resources
• Often used as resource guides for
students or within instruction

31. iCyte
Lets users
capture “photo”
of webpage the
way it was
documented
that day.
Bookmarking
tool where users
can annotate,
highlight, cite
and save. Keep
cites together.

32. Doesn’t
save sites
by web
address it
saves
them by
image.
The way
you
remember
them the
day you
used
them.

33. Instapaper gives you a “read later” bookmark
You clip webpages, and then read them when you
have the time!
Instapaper is available on laptops, desktops,
iPhone, iPad, and e-readers

35. Remember the Milk
Toodledo
TeuxDeux
Todo.ly
42Tasks

36. • Syncs with Google,
Outlook, Twitter, the RMT
app
• Collaboration/sharing
lists and tasks
• Data can be backed
up/exported

37. • Integrates with Google, outlook
• Data can be backed up/exported
• Has collaboration/share option
• Has many levels of organization
• Has a strong user forum

38. • Simple, minimalistic
• Tasks roll over from
day to day
• Does not integrate
with Google Calendar
or Outlook, but is
accessible via the
www and its app

39. Manage projects
and share with
others.
Assign tasks to
yourself or to
others and monitor
them.
Multiple
platforms from
desktop to
various
Smartphone
apps.

40. Simple to do
lists.
Organize by
project
Simple drag
and drop
features
Easy Edit

41. LibX
Email search alerts & RSS feeds
• Addison
• Summon
• PubMed
• Engineering Village
• Ebsco
• Google
RSS readers
Google Scholar

42. Develop here at Virginia Tech Libraries, LibX
is a tool used by libraries around the world in
order to help their users gain access to their
resources as efficiently as possible.
It lives in your browser, and quickly connects
you to VT Libraries information resources.
http://www.lib.vt.edu/libX/

43. Read about RSS feeds:
http://www.lib.vt.edu/help/alerts/rss/
Read about email alerts:
http://www.lib.vt.edu/help/alerts/publisher/i
ndex.html

44. Help page:
http://www.lib.vt.edu/help/alerts/books/addison.html

46. View the tutorial on RSS in Summon:
http://www.lib.vt.edu/help/screencasts/summon/summon-rss-feeds.html

47. RSS Feed for a Search

48. Mark
search
Save
Searches
and alerts

49. Sign up for an Ebsco Account
Free for VT users
Can create alerts
Can save searches
Very user friendly

50. Simply go to: http://www.google.com/alerts

51. Google Reader
Outlook
Other Readers

52. Associated with your Google account
Is available as a gadget

53. Use your email client to have RSS
feeds delivered directly to your
inbox

54.  Web
• Bloglines
• My Yahoo!
• NewsGator
 Windows
• FeedDemon
• Awasu
 Mac OS X
• NetNewsWire
 Mobile devices
• Viigo
• Search for more apps!

55. You can use Google Scholar to help find VT Libraries
resources and send citations to your reference
manager.
You can set your preferences so that it works for you…

57. Contact us:
Rebecca Miller
millerrk@vt.edu
http://rebeccakatemiller.com
Heather Moorefield-Lang
hmlang@vt.edu
http://actinginthelibrary.com