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It's easy to become overwhelmed with the Contact a Law Librarian: amount of information you'll gather [email protected] throughout the scholarly research Phone (Voice):216-687-6877 process. Unless you plan ahead of time to organization your research materials and gather them efficiently, you risk improper citation, inefficient writing, and general Library Reference wasting of time. This guide offers you suggestions on how to gather, organize, and share your research results using various Web 2.0 tools.
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Reference Management Software
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RefWorks Resources Zotero Resources Endnote Resources
Endnote X5 - from UNC Health NOTE: The Michael Screencast Tutorials from Zotero Schwartz Library has Library, the best quickstart guide. canceled its Quick Start Guide from Zotero Text and videos. subscription to Zotero Basics PowerPoint (2014) Endnote E-Book RefWorks, effective June 30, 2017. Zotero Guide - University of Michigan Faculty Endnote Basics: Exploratory and Knowledge Navigation Center Available alternatives Create references (1) are: Citations Out of the Box - Frank G. Bennett's manually; (2) from searches 2013 book on using Zotero in legal writing. of catalogs and databases; Zotero, Mendeley, or (3) by importing citations EndNote Forum for law users from Zotero from saved database Zotero Basics: searches, such as SSRN,
Create references (1) manually (eg, add Ebscohost, and OCLC. Mendeley references from Westlaw); (2) from Westlaw and LexisNexis database search results (such as from references must be entered PubMed); (3) from Web pages. manually. Quick Start Guide from To each reference you can attach notes, To each reference you can Michael Schwartz tags, files, Web pages, screenshots. attach files and insert hot Library Drag and drop references into Word or links to Web pages. WordPerfect documents. Access Endnote from within Mendeley Help Guides Connect to Zotero after opening Word Microsoft Word to insert Videos and Tutorials document, then use "Add-Ins" tab to citations and automatically create bibliographies. Mendeley Support insert reference(s) and "insert bibliography" to add reference(s) to Creates footnotes and endnotes. Mendeley YouTube bibliography. [Must download and install Channel Word citation plugin.] Advantages of Endnote - Has the
Mendeley is a free Advantages of Zotero - It's free! Can capture most options for customization and reference management Web page information and screenshots, as well formatting. Some claim Endnote is tool that allows you to as tag records, and it's much easier to use than more reliable, especially if a generate citations, Endnote and RefWorks. problem occurs with the Firefox annotate and organize browser. PDFs, and access your research sources across devices. Mendeley also includes a social element, through which you can discover new research ideas and collaborate with others.
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Endnote v. Legal Citation v. Mendeley v. Zotero Additional Comparison Charts Endnote Legal Citation Mendeley Zotero
General Software (PC and Software (PC). Software (PC and Mac). Open-source plug-in Endnote v. Information Mac). Enables Enables Enables bibliographic software as Firefox RefWorks v. bibliographic bibliographic record exporting from extension; resides on Zotero Chart record exporting record most databases; can browser “tools.” Enables - Yale from compatible exporting from annotate record. Can bibliographic record University databases; can compatible store references online & exporting from Web pages annotate record. databases; can share with others using and compatible databases; EndNote v. Manages records, annotate group function; can sync can annotate record. Mendeley v. images, and record. with Zotero; can annotate Manages records, images, RefWorks v. documents. WorksManages PDFs. Manages records, and documents. Works with Zotero with Word; works records and images, and documents. Word and Open Office; (detailed) - with LaTex(1) documents. Works with Word and works with LaTex(1) through Georgetown through BibTex.(2) Works with Open Office. Can work BibTex(2) and Google University Can work offline. Word and offline. Docs. Can work offline. Law Library
WordPerfect. EndNote v. Can work Mendeley v. offline. RefWorks v. Cost & How $110-$300; $225; purchase Free (costs for upgraded Free download from Zotero Zotero To Get purchase from from Oberon storage, costs for private Web site. (overview) - Thomson Reuters; Development; groups of more than 3 Georgetown alternative pricing alternative people). University for site licenses. pricing for site Law Library licenses at law schools and academic institutions. Ease of Use Difficult, but Relatively Moderately easy. Guides Relatively easy. Guides doable. Tutorials easy. Guide and tutorials available on and tutorials available on available on available on Mendeley Web site. Zotero Web site. Endnote Web site; Legal Citation regularly Web site. scheduled Webinars. Collaboration / No. No. Yes. In development. Sharing Ability Import & Bibliographic Bibliographic Bibliographic records for Bibliographic records for Management records for books records for books and articles. Can books, articles, patents, and Formats & and articles. Can books, articles, manually create records Web pages. Can manually Styles manually create legal services of any type from any create records of any type records of any type and reporters, source. Can annotate from any source. Can also from any source. and Web PDFs. store PDFs, other files Can also link to pages Can types images and Web libapps.s3.amazonaws.com/sites/1185/guides/190561/backups/guide_id_190561_1579270129.html 3/11 1/17/2020 Home - Scholarship Technology - LibGuides at C|M|LAW Library Can also link to pages. Can types, images, and Web PDFs, other file manually create screenshots. types, and images. records of any type from any source. Output Thousands of Some popular Hundreds of formats and Hundreds of formats and Formats & formats and styles, styles, includingstyles, including styles, including Bluebook Styles including Bluebook and Bluebook. (must download Bluebook Bluebook; can also ALWD. from “style repository”); can export to many also export to selected other software software types. types. Special Able to customize Works with Citation Plugin is fully Works with LexisNexis(3); Features and format to great LexisNexis; compatible with Word excellent PDF extent; good PDF provides ALWD (including Word for Mac) management; can store management; can output format; and LibreOffice. We also Web screenshots; can tag save database works with support BibTeX export for records, making them search result as WordPerfect. use with LaTeX. searchable. text file and import.
1LaTeX is a typesetting system primarily used in technical and scientific publications.
2BibTeX is the reference management subsystem of LaTeX.
3LexisNexis management on Zotero still being tweaked.
Mindmapping & Flowcharts
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What is Mindmapping? Examples of Mind Mapping Software Flowcharts
Mind Mapping is a Can contain more words graphical technique in a node than used to visually mindmaps. interrelate ideas, which Software: are usually based Free Mind – is a Java based free mind around one central mapping software. Its basic features include Microsoft Word - In the theme. The central idea linking to web sites, ability to link to Drawing toolbar, click on is placed in the center of documentation, multiple color text, and Autoshapes and point to the page and related exporting the mind map in a variety of Flowcharts. Add shapes ideas are then linked to formats. and connectors. You the central idea via You will have to ask C|M|LAW IT could use Insert branches. This Department to download this program to Diagram, but these offer technique can be used your computer. less flexibility. You can for brainstorming, Other Mind Mapping software – free and copy and paste the organizing projects, or proprietary diagram from Word, problem solving. XMIND – Free mind mapping copy it into Paint software that allows for online program (typically under Wikipedia Explanation collaboration. Accessories), save as Blog Post - CM Law an image, and then put 3D Topicscape – This proprietary Library Blog, "My the image on a Wiki or software provides a 3-D Favorite Free website. representation of the mind map. One Mindmapping and of the features of this software is the Flowchart Collaboration ability to drag and drop links or files. Software" Bubbl.us - Free, easy to
use and allows for Example of Mindmap from Freemind: collaborative editing.
Why Use Only people you specify Mindmapping? can see the diagrams, and only people you Mind Mapping software specify can edit them. allows for direct linking The shapes are all the to web sites, articles, or same, but you can make documents. The mind them different colors. map can be collectively Any box can be used by more than one connected to any other person in multiple to show relationships. locations. Click on Menu - Export and save as an image. No download needed.
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LucidChart - Free, allows for collaborative editing. Easy to use. Does not require Flash or plugins. Web based, no software to download. Ability to create multiple pages/flowcharts that you can link together. Ability to export to flowchart as a PDF, webpage, PNG, or JPG file.
EDraw - Must download software.
Citation Checkers
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Cut and Paste Snippet with Proper Citation Upload a Document and Check Citation Format
Westlaw Lexis for Microsoft Office When you highlight part of a document, select Copy Use link to download product to use in conjunction with with Reference. The highlighted part will be copied LexisNexis Advance. Check citation formats in along with the citation in the format you pick (Standard Microsoft Word, similar to using spell check. Works for (Bluebook) , ALWD or state specific). Bluebook for briefs, California and New York formats, other states to be added. Not all states are currently supported. Ohio citation format available. Also build a table of authorities, check quotes and do research from a Word document. Free for law students Select Briefs or Law Review Format: the default is & faculty. Bluebook for legal briefs; if you want to change to Bluebook for Law Review form, click on Preferences in the bottom left, then click on the Citation tab, and select Video: Checking Citations using Lexis for Microsoft Law Review as citation style. Office
Lexis Advance - Forms - Ohio Cite Genie Lexis® for Microsoft O ce… Firefox extension. Free for 90 days, then $14.95 for use on 3 computers.
When copying text from a case in Lexis or Westlaw will put the citation into the proper format for the jurisdiction you choose, or in standard Bluebook brief form. Does not do law review Bluebook form.
Works for Google Scholar and Bloomberg Law, but only in Bluebook format.
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Create Database of Authorities
Create a database of authorities which can be inserted into a document in proper citation format. Citations can be inserted into the text of a brief or article, and/or can be used to create a bibliography.
Zotero Free Firefox add-on. Connectors available for use with Chrome and Safari.
Bluebook law review format only, not brief format. See Zotero Style Guide. No state formats.
Endnote Must purchase.
Both Bluebook brief and Bluebook law review formats.
LexisNexis Casemap A tool for organizing facts, documents, issues, evidence, characters and legal authorities for a case. Legal authorities entered into Casemap will be put into Bluebook form. Free to law students and faculty via Lexis Advance.
LexisNexis Casemap Information Visit this link for all the information you need to use Casemap.
RSS Feeds
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What Are RSS Feeds? RSS Readers Filtering
RSS = Really Feedly - A news aggregator that runs on Web browsers and Simple mobile devises supporting iOS and Android. Since Google Feed Rinse can restrict Syndication or Reader is going away in summer 2013, many users are the number of posts you Rich Site switching from Google Reader to Feedly. receive from a particular Summary. feed to only posts Each time the containing certain terms. Bloglines - Around since 2003, the newly revamped feed is updated For more information on Bloglines helps you organize your RSS feeds with an easy (i.e., new articles filtering see the library's drag-and-drop feature. are published in blog post, RSS Feed the journal), the Lists News CSU Library results will be Books. displayed in the feed.
Keep up with Creating an RSS Feed current Create an RSS feed out scholarship by of any website by using: receiving information from Page 2 RSS - Easy - just your favorite type in the url. websites in one Feed43 - requires place--an RSS knowledge of html and reader--so that ability to manipulate you don't have to code on the page in check each site question for updates.
Major news sources, many Sending an RSS Feed to Email Inbox academic journals, blogs -- Use Feedburner have RSS feeds. (used on CM Library See video RSS blog), Feedblitz or in Plain English similar service. Many (This information is blogs will have buttons taken from Keeping Up to subscribe to the blog With Current via email. Scholarship by the University of Virginia Library. )
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Why Use RSS Feeds? Finding RSS Feeds
Why would RSS be A. RSS Feeds of Scholarly Journals better than SmartCILP, Washington and Lee Current Law Journal Westlaw/Lexis Alerts, Content - Instead of receiving emails, set up Email from SSRN or RSS feeds of particular journals or a term Washington & Lee search. Term searches can be in a specific Current Law Journal field, such as author or title. Sends citations Content etc.? and links to full text from other sources. See Lexis and instructions. Westlaw do not Many individual law journals have RSS have all journals feeds available. Some of which are full text, on them, and some are table of contents only. For a list, may have a see SMULaw, RSS - Law Journals. Two delay. examples of full text RSS Feeds: Harvard Law Review; Houston Law Review. While SmartCILP SSRN - RSS Feeds for each author. From includes many the author's homepage, look for the XML journals, you icon. See Instructions. may want to add work-in-progress B. RSS Feeds of Court Cases articles from Email, RSS, Twitter FB service -Justia free SSRN, news opinion summaries articles, etc. Findlaw RSS Feeds - Case summaries for Better than email U.S. Supreme, Federal Circuits, Selected because puts all states. in one place. Court News Ohio -court news and case Look at it when announcements. Email or RSS. you want to. Ohio Supreme Court Case Activity Notification - for cases pending before the RSS feeds and Ohio Supreme Court. Email or RSS. many readers are free.
Term specific filtering? Can do with Lexis, Westlaw, Washington & Lee, also with RSS.
Social Bookmarking
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What Is Social Bookmarking? Examples of Social Bookmarking & Related Sites
Social bookmarking is a way to store, organize, Pinterest and manage the URLs of webpages on the Internet. Most social bookmarking sites use Pinterest is a free website that requires registration to use. informal tags -- user generated keywords that describe the bookmarked sites. Using tags Users can upload, save, sort, and manage images—known as pins—and other media content (e.g., videos) to collections makes it easy to find what you've bookmarked and to group information together. called pinboards.
Social bookmarking is "social" because you can Content can also be found outside of Pinterest and similarly uploaded to a board via the "Pin It" button, which can be share your bookmarks with other Internet users and see what other users are downloaded to the bookmark bar on your web browser.
bookmarking. Other social features of social Some websites include red and white "pin it" buttons on items, bookmarking sites include the ability to which allow Pinterest users to pin them directly. subscribe to tags (via RSS feeds), the formation
of groups and discussion boards, and "friend" or
"fan" features that allow you to follow what CiteULike specific users post as bookmarks. Called "Facebook for PhDs," CiteULike is a free social citation Social citation is the same idea as social tool that's widely used by scholarly researchers to collect and bookmarking, but used for journal citations share citations for journal articles. instead of websites. It is widely used in scientific When you use certain databases that are supported in research and other academic areas. CiteULike, the bibliographic information, such as author name and page, is automatically recorded for you to your CiteULike library. Why Use Social Bookmarking?
Library Thing Social bookmarking can be used for organizing research and discovering new information. If Library Thing is a social cataloging web app built for storing and you're doing research with others, you can all share and contribute what you've found online, sharing book catalogs and various types of book metadata. It is used by authors, individuals, libraries, and publishers. whether websites or journal articles. You can also use social bookmarking or social citation A basic account in Library Thing is free; paid subscriptions are available for even more space to catalog your books. sites to discover what others have been
researching -- it's like looking over someone's Want more? Here's an extensive list of social bookmarking and related shoulder in the library! sites from Wikipedia.
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