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Bibliographic Citation Management Software as a Tool for Building Knowledge

Conducting literature reviews is an essential tool for knowledge building in nursing and health science. There are many reasons to conduct literature reviews, including preparation of an article for a peer-reviewed journal or research grant proposals, completion of requirements for academic degrees,

La recherche bibliographique en médecine et santé publique: guide d’accès

La recherche bibliographique en médecine et santé publique: guide d’accès

Psychiatryonline Web Site Gets User-Friendly Makeover

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Professional NewsFull AccessPsychiatryonline Web Site Gets User-Friendly MakeoverBarbara BryantBarbara BryantSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:5 Jan 2007https://doi.org/10.1176/pn.42.1.0002It's a dream come true for clinicians, researchers, and authors: the newly redesigned journals Web site at<www.psychiatryonline.org> has fine-tuned the methods readers can use to access Psychiatric News and the journals published by APA and American Psychiatric Publishing inc. (APPI). Moreover, each publication has a redesigned homepage that is more attractive and easier to navigate.The redesigned homepages of the APA/APPI publications are easy to use and offer time-saving features.“In addition to giving our journals Web site a clean new look, we've improved users' ability to navigate the site,” explained Pam Harley, APPI's e-publishing strategist. “Visitors will find that, whatever strategy they use to look for what they're after, they'll spend less time and effort finding the precise—and related—information they need.”APA members have free access to the American Journal of Psychiatry and Psychiatric Services once they activate their subscriptions. Access to Psychiatric News is also free and does not require activation. The other publications at the site are FOCUS: The Journal of Lifelong Learning in Psychiatry, Academic Psychiatry, Journal of Neuropsychiatry, Clinical Neurosciences, and Psychosomatics.In addition to the redesign, APPI recently completed a project to make the historical archives of almost all of its journals available to subscribers. In the case of the American Journal of Psychiatry, that means readers now have access to articles that go back as far as 1844, when the first issue was published.The site serves as a valuable portal to other published research as well. Hyperlinks from cited references to the articles to which they refer allow readers to move easily through related literature. Links from references to popular indexing services such as PubMed and CrossRef help researchers locate cited articles.In addition, an innovative “link exchange” program with other leading medical journals hosted by HighWire Press allows limited free access to single articles cited by the original article. Such access is noted by the“ Free Full Text” links in the references of APPI journals. Links from articles to other articles on the same topic and by the same lead investigators are also offered.A useful tool for authors is the ability to export article citations to popular bibliographic management software formats like EndNote and RefWorks. Such programs allow authors to create a personal database of references and generate bibliographies in the varied formats required by publishers. Authors who use these programs to organize their references report that they reduce errors and minimize article prep time, Harley said.Visitors can sign up to receive e-mail alerts whenever new content is published that matches criteria based on the topics, authors, and articles they want to track. They can also save links to articles and complicated searches to user-defined folders for future reference.“The online journals offer a state-of-the-art environment for discovery and management of journal literature,” Harley added.“ With our recent redesign, the site is now an even easier-to-use and far-ranging information portal. I encourage subscribers who haven't done so already to activate their online access to the journals to which they subscribe. We think they will like what they find.”The updated Web site can be accessed at<www.psychiatryonline.org>. Each publication can be accessed by clicking on its cover. ▪ ISSUES NewArchived

The Impact of Electronic Bibliographic Databases and Electronic Journal Articles on the Scholar's Information-Seeking Behavior and Personal Collection of “Reprints”

SUMMARY This article examines the potential changes to the information-seeking behavior of scholars and how they manage their own collection of research article “reprints.” With bibliographic databases and electronic journals provided by academic libraries now available at the science scholars' computer desktops, they can now locate and acquire a portion of needed research articles on their own at any time. They also, in some cases, have older paper copies scanned and delivered by libraries as image files at Web retrieval locations. Bibliographic citation management software is now in use by many scholars. Personal information management software is available and could also be used. This article reviews possible scenarios scholars can use to manage this new electronic collection of research articles and possible ways libraries can help them in this scholarly activity.

Bibliographic Citation Management Software for Web Applications

SUMMARY The bibliographic citation management software librarians already use to support scholarly research can also be used to deliver databases to the Web. Scott Memorial Library at Thomas Jefferson University uses a combination of Reference Manager and Reference Web Poster to publish indexes to bibliographic literature, and searchable lists of electronic journals and frequently asked questions (FAQs). This approach to serving data is suitable for materials of a bibliographic nature and/or for low budgets. To get started, all that is required is a copy of a citation management program, such as Reference Manager, EndNote, ProCite or Biblioscape. Any of these will produce static pages coded in HTML. Optional additional packages (Reference Web Poster or BiblioWeb Server) provide interactive Web-based searching.

Bibliography Management with Library MasterTMVersion 2.0

Library MasterTM, a bibliographic and textual database management software package, is reviewed in this article. One of over fifty software packages intended to organize and track bibliographies and references, it provides a wide range of data manipulation capabilities. Some of the common capabilities supported include flexible inputting, editing, and deleting of references: sophisticated database querying capabilities; and flexible organization and output of bibliography lists. This review concentrates on the bibliography management capabilities of Version 2.0 from Balboa Software.