Electronic Bibliography

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Electronic Bibliography

• MLCS Research Methods
• Terry Butler
• 2000 February 10

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Electronic Bibliography

• manage your research materials as an electronic
  repository
• integrate research results into your publications
• search for catalogued resources on the Internet

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Manage - power

• Store references and citations in a database
• Manage, sort, select, and print them

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Manage - choices

• General database programs
• Microsoft Access
• maybe even Excel or Word!
• Special purpose bibliography programs
• ProCite
• EndNote
• Reference Manager

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Manage - ProCite

• Input your references into ProCite
• Format them for a particular use
• Search for relevant citations
• Select and output them
• Integrate them with your papers and web sites

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Integrate - BiblioLink

• Capture references from library catalogues or
  CD-ROMs
• Convert them to ProCite format
• Input them into ProCite

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Search - the problem

• Web searching is free-form and haphazard
• Library catalogue searching is time consuming
  and each one has a different user interface

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Search - the solution

• Use a single standard product to search all
  catalogues - world wide

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Search - Bookwhere / WorldCAT

• Bookwhere is a desktop software program
• Use use it to search library catalogues
• It uses the Z39.50 protocol - which makes all the
  library catalogues look the same
• One user interface to learn!
• Powerful, but lacks customization

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Search - WorldCAT

• WorldCAT is a web-based search system
• Access is through the U of A librarys home page