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Nursing - Undergraduate Library Resources: Managing Your References

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Zotero

Site: www.zotero.org

Cost: FREE for up to 300 MB storage.  Additional storage space starts at $20 per year for 2 GB.

Note: Download and install Zotero Firefox browser extension (although the newest version may work with Chrome and Safari).  Can sync to web account.  Produced by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (George Mason University).

EndNote Basic Tutorial

Site: www.myendnoteweb.com

Cost: FREE for up to 2GB personal library space. 

NOTE: EndNote Basic was, until recently, called EndNote Web.  It is also sometimes referred to as EndNote Online.

This  training video from Thomson Reuters gives an overview of EndNote OnlinePlease disregard any references to EndNote Desktop.

Mendeley

Site: www.mendeley.com

Cost: FREE for up to 2GB personal library space.  Additional storage space starts at $4.99/month for 5 GB personal library space.

Note: Software download.  Can sync to web account.  Free iPhone/iPad app is also available.

Citation Management Tools

Now that you've found a variety of sources, how are you going to keep track of your references?  Fortunately, you don't have to resort to index cards anymore.  Most databases (including CINAHL, Medline, and PubMed) allow you to create a free account to save, organize, and export your citations. 

Even better, reference management software allows you to keep all of your references (even from different databases, catalogs, and websites) in one central place.  There are many citation management tools available for free or purchase that allows you to store references, share references and create citation works.

The HPU Libraries provide support for 3 free citation management tools:

  

                                            

                                   

Comparison of Citation Tools

Upcoming Library Events

HPU Libraries offers citation management workshops, check our calendar for upcoming workshops! (Offered during Fall and Spring semesters).

If you missed or can't make it to a specific workshop; we also offered citation management consultations to individuals or small group, just email us at reference@hpu.edu