Did You Know
NCBI Bookshelf
This month, we look into a bookshelf that life sciences students/ professors/ practitioners can carry with them everywhere! The NCBI Bookshelf has been existing since 1999, and is home to a host of educational resources in the life sciences that you can access for free. The most popular resources accessed via this tool remains textbooks. It has been of immense help to both students and professors, the former because of the mobility of access, the latter having the means to access high quality resources to educate both themselves and their students.
The Bookshelf also comes with the pedigree of being a product of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. It is also a good practice for authors and publishers to make their textbooks available for free online via this tool, because, in the longer run, it increases their visibility and helps them to reach out to larger audiences.
So, do go ahead and read our post to know more about this tool. You can also read this additional blog post to learn some more details about the NCBI Bookshelf.
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Interesting Article
Ivey Camille, Crum Janet. Choosing the Right Citation Management Tool: Endnote, Mendeley, Refworks, or Zotero.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2018.468
Academic publications come with exhaustive procedures of procuring good literature, gathering data from credible sources, analyzing this data, penning this analysis, submitting for review and giving due credit. While there are no substitutes for the work and knowledge this requires, a part of your task can be made easy by the use of reference management tools. Many of us have had trouble with paper submissions owing to the tedious, laborious necessity of getting our references in order. Awareness of reference management tools will enable you to compile your reference list smoothly and know which to use for the kind of research you are conducting.
In this article, Camille Ivey and Janet Crum discuss the most popular of these tools. Citation management tools have existed since the 1980s to help with organization of references, searching databases, and making bibliography based on your citation style of choice. New features keep getting added to keep up with technological advances. Upon reading this article, you will understand the functionalities of Endnote, Mendeley, Refworks and Zotero. You will learn about existing versions, their compatibility, whether you have free and full access to all features, and whether they are suited to your area of research.
To learn more, read our blog post!
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