This research guide was designed to introduce you to the field of engineering. You'll find books, article databases, and other resources you need to start your research.
Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research. You can automatically generate bibliographies, collaborate with other researchers online, import papers from other research software, find relevant papers based on what you’re reading, and access your papers from anywhere online.
Zotero is a free tool designed to help you gather, manage and share information about books, articles, web pages and other digital objects that you are using in your research, and to generate citations and bibliographies. Zotero is a Mozilla browser plugin. You can choose to gather your data on your hard drive (if you are working mainly from one computer), or on a flash drive or a network (if you frequently access your data at multiple workstations).
00:23 How to download and install Zotero 01:23 Overview of Zotero 02:48 Manually adding references to Zotero 03:38 Adding references with an identifier 04:54 Adding references with the Zotero Connector 05:28 How to remove duplicate references 06:01 How to create collections (folders) 06:49 How to add tags 07:46 How to add related references 08:11 How to add notes 08:32 How to use Zotero in Microsoft Word 11:12 How to add/edit citation styles
