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Dasapta Erwin Irawan

Faculty of Earth Sciences and TechnologyInstitut Teknologi Bandung

19 January 2015

Reference management A mini course_2_1_2

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A bit about me

● A bit old: born in 1976● A bit hard: hydrogeology● A bit old-skool: love vintage things

● A bit old-fashioned: no dye and weird hair cut

● A bit social:

– On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/dasaptaerwin

– On Twitter: @dasaptaerwin

– On ResearchGate: www.researchgate.net/dasapta_irawan

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Disclaimer

● This mini course is non-credit.

● It is offered as opportunities for students to learn specific skills in just a few sessions.

● This mini course offers no warranty of your study performance.

● Consultation session with your supervisor is very important to make the best out of this mini course.

● I'm prone to error, please report any typos or misconceptions from reading this doc.

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Available CC license[1]

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License for this doc[1]

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Outline

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Part 2: how to retrieve references

● 2.1 Where to find:

– Library and its website

– Databases:● Free: Google Scholar[13] (free), ● ITB subscription: Scopus[10], Web of science[15],

ITB Library (http://www.lib.itb.ac.id/e-journal, )http://www.lib.itb.ac.id/e-book

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Part 2: how to retrieve references

● Publishers:

– Conventional: Sciencedirect[17] (options: conventional, open access), Elsevier[18] (options: conventional, open access), Springer Sciences[19] (options: conventional, open access)

– Open access: DOAJ[20], PeerJ[21], HESS[22], PLOSone[23], ArXiv[24]etc

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Part 2: how to retrieve references

● Community, social media:

– ResearchGate,

– Academia,

– ResearchID.

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Part 2: how to retrieve references

● 2.2 tweaking the keywords

– What is a keyword

– What is keyword's operator

– How to get the best search results

– Use "Google Scholar" alert notification

– How to store the information

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How to store the information?

● {Citation info} is very important.

● What is {it}?● It's the {metadata} of a doc

● Contains {important info} of the doc: title, author, year, abstract, journal, etc

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How to store the information?

● What is {BibTex} format?

– Is one of the widely used citation info format

– Text {ASCII} based, so it's {universal}– You can use it with any citation manager apps:

Zotero, Mendeley, EndNote, etc

– {RIS} format is also text based

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How to store the information?

● Are there any other citation info formats?

– Yes, it's called {binary} format

– It can only be read by specific associated app

– Eg: {ENL} (EndNote), etc

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How to store the information?

● How to get {citation info}?– Look for button or menu

– {Cite} or

– {Export citation} or

– {Download citation}

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How to store the information?

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{Copy and paste} these lines into a text file

Save as {*.bib}

Then import it using “new item” from {Zotero}

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How to store the information?

● How to store {citation info}?

{Copy and paste} these lines into a text file

Save as {*.bib}

Then import it using “new item” from {Zotero}

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How to store it?

Or,

There's other easier way

Use Zotero for Firefox add-on

Mendeley has it too

There's add-on for Chrome

But, AFAIK it doesn't work as smooth as in Firefox

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Now let's try some exercise

Have you downloaded and installed Zotero's:

● standalone app?

● Firefox add-on

● LibreOffice/MsWord connector

● Go to Zotero.org

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Now let's try some exercise

● Getting citation info from Google Scholar

● Getting citation info from Scopus

● Store it into Zotero Library

References[1] Creative Common License site, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/, accessed 15 November 2014.

[2] Zotero site, http://www.zotero.org, accessed 15 November 2014.

[3] Mendeley site, http://www.mendeley.org, accessed 15 November 2014.

[4] Docear site, http://www.docear.org, accessed 15 November 2014.

[5] Endnote (Thomson Reuters) site, http://www.endnote.com, accessed 15 November 2014.

[6] Evernote site, http://www.evernote.com, accessed 15 November 2014.

[7] Growly Note site, http://www.growlybird.com, accessed 15 November 2014.

[8] Microsoft OneNote site, http://www.onenote.com , accessed 15 November 2014.

[9] MaxPlanck Institute of Biochem site,https://www.biochem.mpg.de/en/facilities/ivs/BibMgmt, accessed 15 November 2014.

[10] Scopus scientific database site, http://www.scopus.com, accessed 15 November 2014.

[11] Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia site, http://en.wikipedia.org, accessed 15 November 2014.

[12] JabRef site, http://jabref.sourceforge.net/, accessed 15 November 2014.

[13] BibDesk site, http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/, accessed 15 November 2014.

[14] Google Scholar site, http://scholar.google.com, accessed 15 November 2014.

[15] Web of Science/Knowledge site, http://thomsonreuters.com/thomson-reuters-web-of-science/, accessed 15 November 2014

[16] ITB Library site, http://www.lib.itb.ac.id, accessed 15 November 2014.

[17] ScienceDirect Database site, http://www.sciencedirect.com, accessed 15 November 2014.

[18] Elsevier Site, http://www.elsevier.com, accessed 15 November 2014.

[19] Springer Sciences site, http://www.springer.com, accessed 15 November 2014.

[20] DOAJ, http://www.doaj.org, accessed 15 November 2014.

[21] PeerJ, http://www.peerj.com, accessed 15 November 2014.

[22] HESS, http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/, accessed 15 November 2014.

[23] PLOS one site, http://www.plosone.org/, accessed 15 November 2014.

[24] ArXiv site, http://www.arxiv.org, accessed 15 November 2014.