Citation management today

Citation Management - today
by
James Buckingham
MA – Adult Education
MA – Online & Distance Education
Instructor / Education Technology Specialist – Zayed University
Abu Dhabi, UAE
28 Nov 2010
Email – auh.jimb@gmail.com
twitter - @buckinsand
blog - http://jamesbuckingham.net
LinkedIn - http://ae.linkedin.com/in/jamesbuckingham

What is citation management anyway?
What is dreaded about citation management?
Citation management programs - the "saviour"?
Citation management programs - affordances
Implications for research
Implications for teaching
Current choices

What is citation management anyway?
Old days
- Cue cards
- writing down
- author’s name
- date
- publisher
- location of publisher
- page number
- purpose?
- to source work
- to realize intext citations
- to realize a bibliography

What is dreaded about citation management?
Old days
- tedious / time consuming
- its importance may not have been fully understood by students … especially with
only one person as audience - teacher
Today
- Not too much different
- tedious / time consuming
- its importance may still not have been fully understood by students … especially
with only one person as audience - teacher
.. but changing

No shortage of them

No shortage of them
20 Listed at digitalresearchtools
Spiro, L. (n.d.). Citation Management Tools. digitalresearchtools. wiki, . Retrieved October 26, 2010,
from https://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com/Citation-Management-Tools

simple affordances .. facilitating
• collecting
• organizing
• citing source

simple affordances .. facilitating
• collecting
• organizing
• citing source
+ NEW
• syncing
• collaborating

collecting
collecting typical source information
• author
• title
• date
• publisher
• place
• ISBN
• retrieved from (if a URL)

NEW
collecting
but also going beyond this to ….
• take a screen shot of a web based resource
• highlight sections
• make notes directly on the screenshot
• save links to related documents (pdfs)
• type and save notes

organizing
sorting by library (collection)
but also going beyond this to ….
• tag sources
NEW

syncing
online storage of your citation work
24/7 access to your work on any computer
NEW

NEW
collaborating
• sharing your citation work with others to
promote collaboration
• automatic cite recommendations ..
based on your keywords or tags

Implications for research
collaboration opens up new possibilities
• connecting with topic experts around the globe to
share suggested readings AND notes / ideas
http://www.zotero.org/people/

Implications for teaching
facilitates standardization of citation work
automatic formatting option
facilitates modeling of citation work by teachers
easy drag and drop of citations in any or all materials produced for
student use
promotes more frequent student / teacher collaboration on reading choices / lists
ready made reading lists shared by teacher OR by student
teacher or student produced reading lists can be quickly shared and collaboratively
reviewed by either teacher or fellow students

Current choices

Bibliography
Buckingham, J. (2010a, November 28). Citation management today. Slideshare.
Retrieved November 28, 2010, from
http://www.slideshare.net/buckinsand/citation-management-today 
Buckingham, J. (2010b, November 28). Bibliography on Citation Management tools -
today presentation. Google docs, . Retrieved November 28, 2010, from
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sRYw_b58_JR86BOGszsh-w--O3zOrz-q_a9XM
Buckingham, J. (2010c, November 28). Citation Management Today. Elluminate
presented at the Learning Times - Speed geeking, online. Retrieved from
http://tinyurl.com/2010nov28spdgk 
Cameron, R., Emany, K., Hall, C., & Caddy, J. (n.d.). CiteULike: Everyone's library.
Retrieved November 27, 2010, from http://www.citeulike.org/

Bibliography
Center for History and New Media - George Mason University. (n.d.). Zotero | Home.
Retrieved October 26, 2010, from http://www.zotero.org/
Comparison of reference management software. (n.d.). Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia. Retrieved October 26, 2010, from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software
Harvard Libraries. (2008). Citation Tools at Harvard - Using RefWorks, EndNote,
and Other Citation Tools. Retrieved November 27, 2010, from
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=citationtools
Imagineeasysolutions LLC. (n.d.). EasyBib: Free Bibliography Maker - MLA, APA,
Chicago citation styles. Retrieved October 26, 2010, from http://www.easybib.com/

Bibliography
Mendeley. (n.d.). It’s time to change the way we do research. Mendeley. Retrieved
October 26, 2010, from http://www.mendeley.com/
RefWorks. (n.d.). RefWorks Home Page. RefWorks. Retrieved October 26, 2010,
from http://refworks.com/
Spiro, L. (n.d.). Citation Management Tools. digitalresearchtools. wiki, . Retrieved
October 26, 2010, from https://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com/Citation-
Management-Tools
Takats, S. (2009, August 7). » Teaching with Zotero Groups, or Eating My Own Dog
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zotero-groups-or-eating-my-own-dog-food-part-1/

Bibliography
Third Street Software. (n.d.). Sente: The Academic Reference Manager for Mac OS
X. Retrieved November 27, 2010, from
http://www.thirdstreetsoftware.com/site/Products.html
Thomson Reuters. (n.d.). EndNote - Bibliographies Made Easy. Retrieved November
27, 2010, from http://www.endnote.com/
WizFolio. (n.d.). WizFolio | Joy of Knowledge Discovery. Retrieved November 27,
2010, from https://www.wizfolio.com/Default.aspx

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