How you stay organized largely depends on your preference. The library databases offer a few ways to help you keep track of articles you may want to use for your research assignment.
When looking at a results page in LibrarySearch, you will notice a collection of icons at the top right corner of each search result. The red arrow icons are helpful tools for finding other related articles. The rest of the icons provide ways of saving and organizing a source you may want to use for your assignment.
There is a permanent link option, an email option, and a pin option, which saves articles to your library account's favorites this. This list can then be tagged and organized by subject, assignment, or whatever is helpful to you! If you click the ellipses next to the pin icon, you see a citation generator and more!
See the tabs on this page for more explanation on each of these options.
You might think you shouldn't save or keep track of an article unless you've already decided to use it in your assignment, but if you think something even might be useful, it's helpful to just save it to a list or email it to yourself! Doing this will avoid a situation where you're scrambling to remember the name of that article you've now realized would be the perfect thing to use.
This list of sources is also a way to ensure your bibliography or works cited list is already almost done before you finish your paper!
Look through the tabs on this page to see all the different ways you can save articles to stay organized.
When looking at your search results page, you'll notice that each result has a set of icons on the top right corner. The permalink option is third from the left and looks like two linked chains. Click that, and you can then copy the link and paste it into a separate document. The link will take you right to the same article listing.
You can email articles to yourself by using the email icon at the top-right of each article. Click the icon and new window will appear. You can enter either your school or personal email address, choose a citation format, and then click send.
To save articles to your Library Account, you can use the pin icon to add articles to your favorites list. This list is saved with your library account. You can also label saved articles to organize them by topic, course, or assignment.
There are several citation management tools out there. Our library website lets you export any resource to whichever tool you prefer!
You can export a resource to EasyBib, EndNote, Zotero, BibTeX, or Citavi. Each of the citation management tools works a little different. Whichever tool you use is up to you and depends on your personal preference.
Note: Each tool is a third-party system. You will need to set up an account to use their services.
You will see an ellipses ( ... ) in the top right corner of each article in your search result list. Click the ellipses and you will see the list of citation tool options to export to. Click the citation tool of your choosing and a download of the citation will automatically begin. You can then upload the citation into your citation management tool.
