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2012

Library and Information Science

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Portland State University

Online information services

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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences

Technology In Practice. Tools For Optimal Flow: Technology-Enabled Research Workflows, Meredith G. Farkas Jul 2012

Technology In Practice. Tools For Optimal Flow: Technology-Enabled Research Workflows, Meredith G. Farkas

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

The article presents information on technological tools for collecting and using research. The author looks at reference management software Zotero, computer program Mendeley for managing and sharing data, and Evernote software for notetaking and archiving. The article also discusses the social bookmarking websites Diigo and Instapaper.


Research Guide Technologies, Meredith G. Farkas Jan 2012

Research Guide Technologies, Meredith G. Farkas

Library Faculty Publications and Presentations

Research guides (also known as subject guides, course guides, or pathfinders) provide targeted information on a particular topic to support student or faculty research in that area. Similar instructional tools have been around since before the birth of the web, but are now almost exclusively provided by libraries online as part of the library’s web presence. Research guide software enables librarians without web design skills to quickly and easily create and update web content. The technologies for creating research guides run the gamut from proprietary and open source software specifically designed for creating guides to open source and third-party-hosted applications …