New reference management program available: Paperpile

HYMS students and staff can now get free access to the Paperpile reference management program via the University of York.

 

Paperpile is a simple but powerful web-based reference management tool, with special emphasis on integration with Google Docs and Google Scholar. It allows you to organise your research papers, sync PDFs to Google Drive and cite your references in Google Docs (it does not currently have direct integration with Microsoft Word).

 

To make full use of its functions you will need to access Paperpile via the Google Chrome browser (available on HYMS, Hull and York desktops), but the app is intuitive to use, and has particular strengths in the collation and organisation of references. It also has sharing capabilities for collaborative research. Paperpile is already being used by several academic staff at York, and the University is the first UK Higher Education institution to buy a site licence, making it freely available to all staff and students.

 

In addition to Paperpile, the University of York continues to offer access, training and support for EndNote and EndNote Online, and the University of Hull provides the same for RefWorks.

 

Information on how to access Paperpile, EndNote and RefWorks can be found in the Bibliographic management software box on our Research page: 

http://libguides.hull.ac.uk/medicine/research

EndNote Online courses at York



 

The University of York will be running five generic EndNote Online courses over the next term.

EndNote Online is a web-based reference management application that enables collection of bibliographic information electronically. It also works in conjunction with Microsoft Word to help insert and format citations and reference lists. It is available for free and can be used on any computer with web access, including personally owned equipment.

 

You can book your place on one of the training sessions via the calendar on the HYMS Library Research tab ( http://libguides.hull.ac.uk/medicine/research ) where you can also find more about the program.

 

Steph Jesper from the HYMS Library Team will be co-delivering sessions and will be able to help with any questions you might have about how to use EndNote Online in conjunction with medical databases.

Endnote session for Researchers at University of York 5 December 2014

University of York is running Endnote sessions for researchers. The next session is on 5 December 2014 13:00-15:00 and you can book a place at http://www.york.ac.uk/admin/hr/courses/course.cfm?c=RD0100.

By the end of the session, participants will be able to:

• Create a personal reference library
• Import bibliographic information from bibliographic databases like Medline, Google Scholar and YorSearch
• Manage collections of references
• Insert and format citations and reference lists using MS Word
• Access further support material

Online help regarding Endnote at University of York can be found at http://www.york.ac.uk/it-services/it/software/a-z/endnoteweb/ and at University of Hull can be found at http://www2.hull.ac.uk/lli/skills-development/referencing/bibliographic_software.aspx.

Struggling to manage your references? Help is here!

If you're sick of noting down references on the backs of envelopes, or you're struggling to get to grips with bibliographic management software, take a look at this article, which includes information about the different bibliographic management software packages available at Hull and York, and handy materials and tutorials to get you started.

Email library@hyms.ac.uk with any questions.