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Create a Research Journal
Tip: It's good practice to start a research journal to organize the articles, books, websites, and data you find useful during your research. Also keep track of the interesting arguments and ideas that come to you as you're searching. It's less important how and where you keep track than that you do keep track.
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Elements of a Research Journal LogWhat to include in a log-style research journal with an example entry.
Keeping Track of Sources
Bibliographic management tools organize your citations, PDF documents and also help format the citations in the style you choose. I or any reference librarian can help with these.
Zotero
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ZoteroSave everything from online journal articles to records for books to plain old web pages. Then you can categorize them and export them as bibliographies formatted in any of the major citation styles.
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Carleton's Zotero Guide
Our guide has instructions for using Zotero with lab computers and getting the most storage space possible.
EndNote
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EndNote
Available to Carleton people, this is a fully featured bibliographic management system. Import citations from catalogs and databases or type them in by hand, embed PDFs, search, sort, export as a bibliography in any one of hundreds of citation styles, and manage long papers with Cite While You Write. -
EndNote OnlineEndNote's online version has the great advantage of being accessible from anywhere that has an internet connection and of allowing you to share folders with collaborators.
NOTE: You'll need to create your own login and password. Be sure to use your Carleton email address.
