Selecting a Reference Management Package - What's Available?

Beginners

After some years of dominance by packages owned by the Thomson Reuters organisation, the number of options available for managing references and inserting formatted reference citations into documents has expanded considerably. This course aims to provide a basic over-view which will assist you to select one which is best suited to your scholarly interests and field of work.

Coverage of packages is not intended to be exhaustive but you should come away with a broad-brush idea of what reference management software can and can't do to assist your work and the strengths and weaknesses of some of the most common ones.

• All current University members (departments and colleges)
• Further details regarding eligibility criteria are available

Number of sessions: 1

Presentation with demo

EndNote, Mendeley, Zotero, EndNote web

One hour

Once a term