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Who, How Many and Where: Research Using the U.S. Census

While doing an academic research project, you may encounter the need for a demographic or economic statistic (What is the current population of King City, CA?; How did people get to work in 1960?; etc). There are many sources of statistics out there, some reliable, and some –  well, not so much. Sources may vary by location, time period, types of questions asked, etc. One of the most reliable sources of U.S. demographics statistics and data to become familiar with is the United States Census Bureau.

The work of the U.S. Census Bureau dates back to the founding of the country, though the Census Bureau wasn’t a permanent government office until the early 1900’s. Its primary role is mandated by our constitution: Article 1, Section 2 of U.S. Constitution stipulates an enumeration of the population be taken every ten years for apportionment and redistricting of  the U.S. House of Representatives. This enumeration is the Decennial Census that has taken place every 10 years from 1790 to present.  

Since there are way too many data programs done by the Census Bureau to cover in this short article, we’ll look at the two most widely used: the Decennial Census and the American Community Survey. The Decennial Census is what most people think of when they think about the U.S. Census: conducted every ten years, lots of details, etc. Up until the year 2000, the Decennial Census was the main source of detailed statistics. However, as of 2005, we now have the American Community Survey, which provides the same level of detailed information in 1-,3-, and 5-year rolling averages. The shorter the timespan, the more current the information – but statistics are only available for population sizes of 80,000 or larger. In a longer timespan, the statistics are less current, but are available for all smaller populations.

The Census Bureau gathers a lot of information and makes it available in a number of ways.  Over the last two decades, U.S. Census information has become more readily available online. Current information is available through the Census Bureau’s site or via American FactFinder.  Other sources include the Library’s subscription to Social Explorer (which covers 1790-present), and allows for the creation of maps. And if you like maps, try Policy Map. If you want to dig into the numerical data and not just the statistics, the Census Bureau provides that as well. To learn more about these sources and the Census, visit the Library’s Census Guide. The D-Lab also holds training sessions on the Census data.    

One final point to consider when talking about the Census or any government program: funding.  Many times in the recent past, the U.S. Congress has threatened to cut or even kill funding for the Census Bureau. In 2011, Congress succeeded when they cut the funding to the office that provided the Statistical Abstract of the United States, despite a public outcry against this cut. As the Census Bureau gears up for the 2020 Census, will there be cuts to the program?  How might that affect your research or research in your field?  

–Jesse Silva Government Information, Political Science and Public Policy Librarian

Contact me at jsilva [@] library.berkeley.edu

Who, How Many and Where: Research Using the U.S. Census was originally published on Library Researcher@Berkeley

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Berkeley Services for Digital Scholarship

Every time you download a spreadsheet, use a piece of someone else’s code, share a video, or take photos for a project, you’re working with data. When you are producing, accessing, or sharing data in order to answer a research question, you’re working with research data, and Berkeley has a service that can help you.

Research Data Management at Berkeley is a service that supports researchers in every discipline as they find, generate, store, share, and archive their data. The program addresses current and emerging data management issues, compliance with policy requirements imposed by funders and by the University, and reduction of risk associated with the challenges of data stewardship.

In September 2015, the program launched the RDM Consulting Service, staffed by dedicated consultants with expertise in key aspects of managing research data. The RDM Consulting Service coordinates closely with consulting services in Research IT, the Library, and other researcher-facing support organizations on the campus. Contact a consultant at [email protected].

The RDM program also developed an online resource guide. The Guide documents existing services, providing context and use cases from a research perspective. In the rapidly changing landscape of federal funding requirements, archiving tools, electronic lab notebooks, and data repositories, the Guide offers information that directly addresses the needs of researchers at Berkeley. The RDM Guide is available at researchdata.berkeley.edu.

Jamie Wittenberg Research Data Management Service Design Analyst

Contact me at wittenberg[@]berkeley.edu

Berkeley Services for Digital Scholarship was originally published on Library Researcher@Berkeley

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Digital Humanities and the Library

Are you a humanist working with digital materials to do your research? Are you carrying out your research or presenting your results using digital methods and tools? Are you teaching using digital tools and content?  If you answered yes to any of these questions, then your work might be considered digital humanities.

Digital humanities has been described as “dynamic dialogue between emerging technology and humanistic inquiry” (Varner, 2016). It is a term that is used to describe a domain within the humanities where researchers are doing most of their work using digital tools, content, and/or methods. Whether this work is partially or exclusively digital, this designation is a way to set these emerging practices apart from more traditional or “analog” ones, though there is no clear distinction.

The scope of digital humanities has been a hot topic in recent years, especially in relation to the library’s role in this new domain.  What services does the library provide to digital humanists? What can the library do to support digital humanities on campus?

The Library has always provided services to researchers and will continue to provide those same services, as well as to expand their offerings to encompass new forms of research, publication, and teaching.  It is not a question of libraries supporting one or the other. Digital humanities is still evolving, and the Library is evolving right along with it, continuing to offer collections, research support, and instruction in both traditional ways and new ones as this “dynamic dialogue” expands.

The Library collects and creates digital resources at the same time that it continues to build its analog collections. Myriad databases, data sets, and other digital resources are available through the Library catalog and website. In addition, our digitized special collections are available through Calisphere, which provides access to digital images, texts, and recordings from California’s great libraries, archives, and museums.

While the library is busy collecting and organizing digital resources, reference librarians are ready and willing to provide you with research help. The expertise that librarians have in connecting researchers to materials, designing research, and providing instruction on how to evaluate and use new content and tools continues to grow and expand in this new environment.

In addition, the library provides instruction to help those new to the digital humanities to learn about tools and skills needed to do this work.  Many librarians have partnered with the D-lab in Barrows Hall on campus to provide instruction on citation management, metadata, and research data management.  The D-lab also offers training in various programming languages and data tools, as well as consulting on research design, data analysis, data management, and related techniques and technologies. Library trainings and events are generally posted to the library events calendar.

The Library also works closely with the Digital Humanities @ Berkeley group (a partnership between Research IT and the Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities) which support digital humanities events, trainings, course support, and graduate student and faculty projects. Their calendar lists talks, workshops, and other events designed to help move the DH community on campus forward.

Keeping the “dynamic dialogue” of digital humanities moving forward is a campus goal, and the relationship between digital humanities and the Library is an evolving one. We are hiring new librarians with digital humanities skills to further develop this relationship and expect to see more growth in the scope of the library’s involvement in digital humanities as the community on campus continues to expand.

Mary W. Elings Head of Digital Collection, The Bancroft Library

Contact me at melings [at] berkeley.edu

Digital Humanities and the Library was originally published on Library Researcher@Berkeley

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Maps, Mapping and Your Research

You probably love maps (who doesn’t?!). They can be beautiful, visually compelling, interesting representations of the world. You might have one hanging on your wall, laugh over one showing how Oakland was the new Brooklyn even back in 1888, or exclaim over one (my new favorite) showing bear concentrations in Norway.

These same qualities that make us love maps are also why they can be excellent research tools. Even if you are not a geographer or urban planner you can use maps to provide context for a place you are describing, explore spatial relationships, or visualize your data in a way that highlights new patterns. For example, a music student used and made maps to trace the locations of 19th century Parisian opera goers!

In addition to the approximately half-a-million physical maps and air photos in the UC Berkeley Library’s collections, the library subscribes to several online databases that let you explore demographic data and create maps that you can share online or print. SimplyMap, Social Explorer, and Policy Map all cover the United States. If you are interested in China, the China Geo-Explorer II database has mappable census data.

There are also many freely available resources available online. My standby is Old Maps Online, which pulls together scanned maps from institutions around the world into a single search screen. Just zoom in to your area of the world, adjust the time slider, and explore!

What if you want to make a map with your own data? There are many good options for that, too, including ArcGIS Online (a library subscribed resource), CartoDB, MapBox, and Google, among others.

Contact Susan Powell, GIS & Map Librarian, at smpowell[at]berkeley.edu if you’d like to find out more about how you can use maps — both print and digital — in your research. Or stop by the Earth Sciences & Map Library to explore the collection and find out more!

Maps, Mapping and Your Research was originally published on Library Researcher@Berkeley

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Open Access News at Berkeley

        There are now two official open access (OA) policies at Berkeley:

Back in July 2013, the Academic Senate adopted the Open Access Policy for the Academic Senate of the University of California to ensure that research articles authored by faculty at all 10 UC campuses are made available free of cost to the general public and researchers worldwide.

On October 23 of this year, UC issued a Presidential Open Access Policy expanding the reach of the Academic Senate policy by including all UC employees and encouraging them to freely share their research publications worldwide. Among those affected by the expanded policy are clinical faculty, lecturers, staff researchers, postdoctoral scholars, graduate students and librarians.

What does this mean for Graduate Students?

The Academic Senate policy was officially launched on November 17 with the implementation of “harvester” software that sends an automated email message to to faculty listing eligible articles which they authored or co-authored; faculty are then prompted to verify (or reject) the articles and instructed on how to post their publications to eScholarship, UC’s OA publishing platform. If you, as a graduate student, co-authored a paper with an Academic Senate faculty any time after July 2013, that article may be posted to eScholarship which provides free global access to your publication. Wider dissemination of Berkeley research is not only a public good but also results in greater impact and recognition for researchers. Ask your faculty collaborators if they’ve posted their publications and, if not, offer to help them!

The Presidential Open Access Policy covers graduate student work if the student was an employee of the university at the time their article was published. Until eligible UC employees are folded into the harvester software used for Academic Senate faculty, you are encouraged to post your eligible articles using the eScholarship deposit mechanism. See Deposit your content in eScholarship for more details.

Keep in mind that your articles are automatically covered by the policy; you are not required to amend your author agreement and you do not need to pay any additional article processing charges.

Remind me: What is Open Access?

OA literature is free, digital, and available to anyone online. With OA literature, there is the potential for greater access, thus more readers and greater impact. There are two different approaches to open access: Gold and Green. Gold OA provides immediate access on the publisher’s website. In the Green OA model (also known as “self archiving”) authors continue to publish as they always have in all the same journals; once the article has been published in a traditional journal, the author then posts a “final author version” of the article to a repository. The UC Open Access Policy falls under the Green OA model.

For more information

Open Access: UC Open Access Policy

For individual questions, contact [email protected].

For in-person assistance come to a Library “upload-a-thon”

Tuesdays and Wednesdays

4pm-5pm

Library Data Lab, 189 Doe

These  drop-in sessions will run from November 17- December 16; January 19-February 24 (and beyond, if necessary).

Many subject special libraries are also offering “upload-a-thons” (see For more help).

Margaret Phillips, Education-Psychology Library contact me at mphillip [at] library.berkeley.edu

  Open Access News at Berkeley was originally published on Library Researcher@Berkeley

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Interlibrary Services – a vital resource for Cal scholars

“ILL is probably my favorite academic service on campus!  ILL  staff always seem to be warm and friendly and to care about their jobs.  I also wouldn’t have been able to write my dissertation without the probably hundreds of books I’ve gotten throughout the years.  Thank you!”

–Berkeley grad student

  Whether you are writing a paper, dissertation or doing post-doctoral research, the UCB Interlibrary Services department can be your best friend.

Even a world class library like Berkeley’s can’t own everything; and that is where Interlibrary Loan (ILL) comes in. Books, articles, conference papers, dissertations; if your research requires something that isn’t available at Berkeley, we will try to obtain it from another institution.

We borrow from the other UC campuses, from hundreds of libraries nationally, and increasingly from partners around the world. We can’t guarantee that we will get everything you need, but we can guarantee that we’ll try. Recent successes include scans of two very rare items: Reveries Orientales: Poems et Illustrations by Jamil Hamoudi and Maha Vira Charita by Bhava Bhuti (published in Calcutta in 1857).

So, check out our website for information on the services we provide, or stop by our office at 133 Doe Library. Our staff will gladly take the time to walk you through the ILL process, show you how to manage your ILL account, and do all we can to help you succeed.

Our hours are Monday through Friday, 10:00 am to 4:00pm, and our telephone number is 510-642-7365. You can find us online at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/using-the-libraries/interlibrary-loan.

Patrick Shannon [Head, Interlibrary Services]  pshannon [at] library.berkeley.edu

  Interlibrary Services – a vital resource for Cal scholars was originally published on Library Researcher@Berkeley

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Citation Managers: A Must-Have Tool in Your Research Arsenal

    Wherever you are in your graduate career, a citation management tool is essential to organizing, writing and sharing your research. Two free and highly popular citation managers that run on Windows, Mac OS and Linux are  Mendeley and Zotero.  In short, Mendeley is frequently used by physical and life scientists and Zotero by social scientists and arts and humanities scholars.  Below is a brief comparison.

Mendeley Zotero Access, edit and insert citations into a document offline Yes Yes Microsoft Word plug-in Yes Yes Automatic download of citations from OskiCat and the UCB Library discovery tool No Yes Insert citations into Google Docs No Yes Free Storage for PDFs 2GB 300 MB Annotate PDFs from within the program Yes No Attach web pages and screen captures No Yes Recommendations of relevant and highly cited articles Yes No Connect with a community of scholars (i.e., academic social network) Yes Kinda Collaborate with colleagues in the cloud Yesfree for up to 3 group members Yesunlimited Automatically create citation records from PDFs Yes Yes Easy de-duplication of item entries Yes Yes

  Both citation managers allow you to easily download citation information and incorporate citations into your papers and publications.  Each has over 7,000 citation styles covering the vast majority of journals you’ll publish in.  Focus on research, reading and writing and leave citation management drudgery to either Mendeley or  Zotero.

If you’d like to set up a Zotero training session for five or more, please contact David Eifler – deifler [at] berkeley.edu to arrange a convenient time.

David Eifler (Environmental Design Librarian) deifler [at] library.berkeley.edu and Jeffery Loo (Optometry and Health Sciences Librarian) jloo [at] library.berkeley.edu

Citation Managers: A Must-Have Tool in Your Research Arsenal was originally published on Library Researcher@Berkeley

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Advanced Google Searching

Advanced Google Search

If you are a regular user of Google (and at this point, who isn’t?), it may have registered with you that Google is trying to solve all your information needs. Need to convert currency? Type 100 dollars in Euros. Need to identify the location of an area code? Type in the area code. Headed to Seattle and want to know whether you need to bring an umbrella? Type weather in Seattle.

This is all very handy, but the most powerful features of Google are the advanced search operators that allow you to refine your searches to retrieve a more relevant set of results. These operators will let you limit your search to a specific site, type of document, and date range. You can search for phrases, remove results with terms, and look for synonyms. The Library has developed a guide on Advanced Searching in Google that describes the most useful of these tools. It also provides more guidance on constructing a successful search by eliminating superfluous words, like the, an, of, in , where, who, and is. (There are some exceptions to this – try searching for who, then a who, then the who.) You wouldn’t think word order would matter, either, but it does. Search for sky blue and then blue sky. You get completely different results.

In addition to advice on constructing your search, the guide will help you set up Google Scholar to access the online content the Library pays for. Have you been published? You can track who has cited your work using “My Citations.” Setting up alerts will have you emailed every time new items appear related to your search. Google Trends allows you to track how often terms were searched in Google. Can’t remember the name of that book you saw yesterday, but remember it was blue and had a picture of Abraham Lincoln on it? The guide shows you how to use the search Google Images to identify it.

Google changes all the time, adding new features and deleting less popular ones. If you come across a useful feature of Google that you think should be shared, please feel free to contact us and let us know. You can find our contact information under the More Help? Tab.

– Jennifer Dorner, Doe Library

contact me at dorner [at] berkeley.edu

Advanced Google Searching was originally published on Library Researcher@Berkeley

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New Online Resources!

The Library has many new tools for research in areas such as History, Native American Studies, International and Area Studies, Genetics, Gender and Women’s Studies, Design, Film and Media Studies, Environmental Studies, Engineering, Popular Culture, Music, Business, Agriculture, Literature, and more!

Complete list

Highlights: Science databases

Highlights: Historical primary source databases

Highlights: Humanities and Area Studies databases

New Online Resources! was originally published on Library Researcher@Berkeley

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What is Fair Use?

Fair Use is particularly important in academic settings where students, faculty, and researchers are able to legally incorporate copyrighted materials, without permission from the author (but with appropriate attribution, of course) in slide shows, book reviews, and classroom lectures.

To learn more about when Fair Use allows you to use copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder, check out:

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use (from the Association of Research Libraries)

Copyright: Fair Use (from the University of California)

Fair Use Checklist (from Columbia University Libraries)

Fair Use Evaluator (from the American Libraries Association Office of Information Technology Policy)

Myths about Fair Use (from Inside Higher Education)

Margaret Phillips, Education-Psychology Library contact me at mphillip [at] library.berkeley.edu

Reblogged (with permission!) from the Library News blog posting on Fair Use Week.

What is Fair Use? was originally published on Library Researcher@Berkeley

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Receive Library Notices as Text Messages!

Prefer to receive library notices as text messages instead of emails?  Login to My OskiCat with your Calnet ID and passphrase and click on “Update Your Account” to opt-in under ‘Mobile settings.”

To opt out, reply to any received text message with Stop, Quit, Cancel, Unsubscribe, or Stop All. Or, text Stop to either 35143 or 82453 to stop all messages. An alternative method is signing into My OskiCat and set preference to stop all text notifications by removing the check from the “Opt In” box and deleting the mobile phone number.

Receive Library Notices as Text Messages! was originally published on Library Researcher@Berkeley

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Dissertations and Open Access

Your dissertation is complete. You have successfully defended it. Your advisors have signed off on it. Now, as part of your “obligation to make your research available to other scholars” (Graduate Division: Dissertation Writing and Filing) you need to submit it. Traditionally, it has been the responsibility of the University Library to make the work of its scholars available to the public. In the old days, this meant that the Library got a copy which they then cataloged and shelved in the dusty stacks. Anyone who wanted to read your major opus was welcome to come to campus, get a stack pass, page it at the circulation desk, then read the hard copy. Now, with dissertations filed electronically, the Library can make a digital version of your dissertation freely available for the whole world to read.

When you file your dissertation you must make a decision about whether to opt for Immediate Release (making your dissertation open access, and freely available to anyone, anywhere with access to the internet) or whether to Embargo it for up to two years.

A new guide on Dissertations and Open Access at UC Berkeley may help you answer the Immediate Release vs. Embargo question.

Opting for immediate release allows for greater dissemination of your work and has the advantage of allowing you to establish yourself as a scholar in your discipline. Some argue that this can protect against plagiarism by ensuring that others will discover your research prior to its publication as a book. By making it widely available, they contend, you are “staking your claim” on the research topic and its findings.

Others, however, most notably the American Historical Association (AHA), advise against making a dissertation immediately available because they believe that “university presses are reluctant to offer a publishing contract to newly minted PhDs whose dissertations have been freely available via online sources.” Some major university presses have weighed in on this topic, publicly declaring that they do not consider open access dissertations as “prior publications.” But there is no consensus. Opinion and practice vary from discipline to discipline.

In the end, your decision will be a personal one that you need to make for yourself in consultation with your advisor; see also the Grad Division guidelines.

  Margaret Phillips, Education-Psychology Library contact me at mphillip [at] library.berkeley.edu

Dissertations and Open Access was originally published on Library Researcher@Berkeley

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Advanced Tips for Searching Article Databases

Find the right article database for you by academic discipline (easier than browsing the entire list of 275 databases, but you can do that too).

Every interface is different, but features to look for (not all features are available in all databases):

Is there an “advanced” search mode, and what does it allow you to do? Possibilities include limiting to scholarly journals, and limiting by language, publication type, years published, among others. Also, the advanced search mode often provides multiple search boxes, which allows you to break up your search into concepts and often retrieves more results.

Instead of searching: African American women poets, you often retrieve more if you put each concept in its own search box:

African American

Women

poets

What’s the wildcard for variant word endings? the most frequently used is our good friend the asterisk, as in: child* = child, childs, children, childish, childhood…

Sometimes internal truncation is available:   wom?n = woman, women, womyn

Can you use quotes to keep search terms together? (ex: “global warming”)

What specific fields can you search by: Author? Title? Abstracts? Publication title? Others?

Especially useful: search by official subject terms (usually listed in the long form of the item record)

Can you view a thesaurus of official subject terms?

How can you search alternative terms? (usually you can just type the connector or, as in:

Gay* or lesbian* or bisexual* or transgender*

Latino* or Hispanic* or chicano*

Can you search by proximity (oil within 3 words of disaster or contamination or cleanup)?

What are your options for sorting search results (relevance? Date? Oldest to newest, or vice versa?)

Is command-line searching available (for frequent power users who know the codes for field searching)?

Other features to look for:

Can you save items to a list or folder and email the results to yourself?

Bonus: some databases allow you to email results in your choice of citation formats

Can you save items to citation management software?

Can you save preferences (creation of a login usually required)? Can you save items to a persistent list that will be there the next time you login?

Can you create an alert so that your search will be run automatically and results will be sent to you by email? Or: an RSS feed?

Can you change the language of the search interface?

by Corliss Lee, Doe and Moffitt Libraries

Contact me at  clee [at] library.berkeley.edu

Advanced Tips for Searching Article Databases was originally published on Library Researcher@Berkeley

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Need Wi-Fi While You’re Travelling?

The newly announced campus wi-fi options include a bonus for UCB faculty, staff and students who are traveling to other universities:   the eduroam service allows you to use your Airbears2 key to gain access to wi-fi at participating eduroam institutions in the United States and abroad. Your friends and colleagues from institutions participating in eduroam will likewise be able to use eduroam here; other friends and colleagues have a new option in CalVisitor.

Need Wi-Fi While You’re Travelling? was originally published on Library Researcher@Berkeley

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Browse journals on your tablet or iPhone

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  Browse, read, and monitor thousands of scholarly journals on your tablet or iPhone/iPod Touch with the BrowZine app.

Create a personal bookshelf of favorite journals, be alerted when new issues are published, and save articles to Zotero, Mendeley, Dropbox, and more.

Get started on your tablet (iPad, Android, Kindle Fire HD) or iPhone/iPod Touch in three easy steps:

Go to your app store, search for BrowZine and download for free.

Open the app, and select our library, University of California, Berkeley, from the listing.

Afterwards, use AirBears or set up the campus VPN to begin reading scholarly journals from the Library.

Learn more about BrowZine from our guide and check out the Introduction to BrowZine video from Third Iron.

Happy browsing!

by Jeffery Loo, Cheminformatics Librarian

Contact me at jloo [at] library.berkeley.edu

Browse journals on your tablet or iPhone was originally published on Library Researcher@Berkeley

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Citation Management Made Easy

  As the size of your papers lengthen — from term papers to thesis to dissertation — you’ll begin to recognize the value of a citation management tool.  Good citation managers allow you to easily capture a variety of citation sources (books, articles, interviews, videos, newspaper articles), and then readily incorporate them into a Word document, ultimately producing a bibliography in any one of a variety of formats (MLA, Chicago, APA, Harvard, etc.)  In short, they take the drudgery out of citation collection and bibliography production so you can better focus on the content of your research.  A good citation manager will also facilitate group collaboration and cloud-based storage of references and accompanying PDFs.

There are four commonly used academic citation managers on the UC Berkeley campus: EndNote, RefWorks, Zotero, and Mendeley.  EndNote, the elder statesman of the group, has been widely used by science faculty for over 25 years, but costs about $100 and the web-based interface leaves quite a bit to be desired.  UC Berkeley pays for a subscription to RefWorks so it’s free for students and faculty to use.  It’s web-based and can’t be used if you don’t have an internet connection and to this reviewer’s eye the interface is a bit cludgy.

Zotero is a free, open source citation manager that’s been around nearly 10 years and is going strong.  Design for new media research, it recognizes a wide variety of citation sources (books and articles as well as maps, computer programs, e-mail, patents, podcasts, theses, reports) and imports citations with a single click from Safari, Chrome and Firefox browsers. It works from your device or the cloud and allows for easy group collaboration.

Mendeley is the newcomer to the citation management crowd.  Recently purchased by the Elsevier Corporation, it is cloud-based, allows for easily import of citations and annotation of PDFs and is currently free.  It doesn’t recognize new media sources such as interviews, forum posts, and TV broadcasts as Zotero does. It is, however, gaining in popularity among scientists.

If you haven’t already guessed, Zotero, is my favorite — especially for students in the arts and humanities and social sciences.  Mendeley is a close contender, but I have concerns that it won’t be free forever.  You can find an excellent guide on setting up and using Zotero at http://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/c.php?g=4472&p=15929.  The most important thing is to not delay; begin using a citation manager today.  You won’t believe the difference it will make in your individual and collaborative research projects.

If you’d like to set up a Zotero training session, please get at least 5 colleagues together and we’ll find an open time on my calendar for a 1 hour training.  deifler [@] berkeley.edu.

by David Eifler, Environmental Design Library

Contact me at deifler [at] berkeley.edu

Citation Management Made Easy was originally published on Library Researcher@Berkeley

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New Library Service: Online Paging to Support Your Interdisciplinary Research Needs

You can now request books and other library materials from 24 campus libraries be delivered to any of those libraries.

Just use the Berkeley OskiCat catalog to find the circulating item you’d like, click on the yellow “Request” button near the top of the screen and enter your CalNet ID and password. Finally, select your favorite library to have the item delivered to. It will arrive within three business days; in most cases sooner.

Imagine requesting books from Biological Sciences, Main, Moffitt, and Anthropology from the comfort of your home and having them all sent to the Environmental Design Library where you can pick them up on your way to class the next morning.

Online paging – another way the Library’s helping you access the materials you need in a timely and efficient manner.

- David Eifler, Environmental Design Library

- Brian Light, Education/Psychology Library

New Library Service: Online Paging to Support Your Interdisciplinary Research Needs was originally published on Library Researcher@Berkeley