Carmen Library Link gives students easy access to high-quality information resources and librarian assistance from within OSU’s Carmen learning management system.
Why use the Carmen Library Link?: It allows students and faculty to gain access to subject specialist librarians and library tools, such as journal databases, appropriate for the course’s discipline without having to navigate away from a Carmen course.
How to Get Carmen Library Link: Carmen Library Link will be added to all courses for Fall Quarter 2009. Custom pages are being developed for most disciplines. Faculty members should contact their subject specialist to create a custom Carmen Library Link for their specific course.
Faculty can manually add or remove the link from a Carmen course site by editing its navigation bar (see: Add Tool to Navigation Bar.)
Encourage students to explore the Library link by posting a news item on a course home page. (see: News: Basic.)
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August 15th, 2009
ZOTERO [zoh-TAIR-oh]
A Firefox web browser extension that allows the collection, management, and citing of research sources. It save links, files, and Web pages for later retrieval. Automatically captures citation information and exports the cites in a variety of styles.
Why Zotero?: The software makes it easier to keep track of networked resources as they are discovered, then retrieved later to create lists of cited works.
How to get Zotero: Download Zotero 2.0 beta |Download Zotero 1.0 |(remember: this is an extension for Firefox only).
Features Include:
- Capture of citation information from web pages
- Storage of PDFs, files, images, links, and whole web pages
- Flexible notetaking with autosave
- As-you-type search through materials
- Playlist-like library organization, including saved searches and tags
- Platform for new forms of digital research that can be extended with other web tools and services
- Formatted citation export
- Free and open source
- Integration with Microsoft Word and OpenOffice
- Saves records and notes in any language
- Integration with WordPress and other blogging software
Zotero is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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May 21st, 2009
