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dorian gray

dorian gray

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Hey,
I imagine you do a shit load of research and the accompanying citations and what-have-you. Got any advice for an asshole like me who last cited works by writing them down on index cards? I get on a database called CINAHL alot and I've noticed you can dl shitz to a reference/citation manager. Is a manager something I can dl?
Basically, how does a research master like yourself do it?


Also, what are some great science databases that are free?

Thanks!

dorian gray, esq.
 
Swizzle is a PhD of something or other or a PhD candidate or something or whatever.
Hey, I just realized I should've asked Moose as well! But he's into someting utterly useless....I don't even know what is. It's not science though. I know that.
 
Yeah, at UW we have Refworks and Endnote and they let us ad the reference by just clicking a few buttons while I'm searching papers online. I've always just used the universities product but Zotero works for free I think. http://www.zotero.org/.

It's pretty easy stuff and way better than note cards. You can also search through the references you've already grabbed.

Btw it's bearded debauchery, not beardless douchebaggery.
 
http://www.mendeley.com/

Also very good. Automatically lifts the stuff from PDFs and databases them for you. Then allows you to search through them, tag them, view them in an internal viewer(which allows you to comment and make notes on them), rename and reorganise the files, back them up online for free and cite-while-you-write in word. I've only ever used Endnote and refworks other than this, but this one is both free and (for me, as I move around a lot between computers) quite a bit better.
 
I never heard of such a thing as a reference engine ... goddamn how things change in a few years!

I hear almost everyone in universities have laptops these days, pretty much, wasn't like that at all when I went in 03-07
 
I'm sure they had a reference engine when you were in school, it's just most undergraduates don't know about it.

Laptops are cheaper now which is why more people have them.
 
Woot! Thanks Brandon and Russell. Btw, man, I didn't forget about you; I just didn't think you'd ever see this thread. I'll definitely check out those engines. On CINAHL, there's an option to send stuff to EndNote and RefWorks but I wasn't sure how to even do it.

Ken and Matt: yeah, dudes, I was last in school in 2000 but started in 1994. At the onset, I would write references on note cards and have a big stack at the end with which to make up a reference page. Good times. I honestly don't actually *remember* using a computer at school until 1996 and they were big CRT-based muthas running at like 20 MHz. I also remember having everything on 3.5" disks that I would have to protect with my life. I had the same reaction as you when I was doing some research earlier this semester and I found an icon that would send stuff to a citation manager. I laughed and was like, "yeah, right".

Yeah, laptops are pretty cheap now. In 1998, I wrote a paper on a gf's laptop and it had all the power of an electric typewriter. I thought it was so badass though haha. Back in 2001, I stole my Dad's which probably cost well over $1000 and the $500 Dell I'm using right now absolutely blows it away. It destroys the wife's desktop actually.
 
Them things are so cheap these days that I just might need to splurge on one in the next 6 months. That is, if I can convince myself that spending half of my income on weed and liquor isn't realistic over a long period of time.
 
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