Research Help....from the Web!

If you're like most students, you probably spend a lot of your time researching on a computer. Luckily there are many free apps and tools to help manage your research, create citations, and find help- all by spending less than a minute downloading the tool! Here's some of my favorites:

*Zotero: Zotero is a Firefox extension that allows users to save data from a website (or library catalog), organize links and references into lists, and pull together a citation for the saved items.

*Notefish: Notefish can be used to compile and organize all of your Web research into one easy location for quick reference. Check this page out for an example.

*CiteULike: CiteULike lets researchers search citations and abstracts for over 4 million articles right from the Web. Each citation was submitted by fellow researchers who found the article helpful. You can then create lists of articles that you'd like to read and cross-reference them with the Seminole State Citation Linker or request an interlibrary loan copy.

*LINCC Catalog Search for Facebook: Here's a quick way to get some of your research done while you check your Facebook account! Just add the app to your page and you'll be able to search very similarly to the Seminole State library catalog, for books, e-books, and articles.


Do you know of any others? Please tell me and all your fellow researchers about them in the comments section! I'd love to hear what you're using.