Welcome to Module 4: Managing and Citing Sources!

In this module, you'll learn how to assess materials for credibility, accuracy and scholarliness.

REQUIRED:

Part 1: Understanding Citations
In order to navigate the scholarly research world effectively, you need to understand what kind of source you're looking at and how to track down a source you've found cited. This guide from University of Texas, Austin will help with the Understanding Citations and help you understand how we need to cite sources and give attribution to others when citing, paraphrasing and quoting others in our work.

Citation: A (Very) Brief Introduction by NC Stat

Part 2: Academic Integrity and Plagiarism

Copyright and Plagiarism is a topic that often comes up during library research. In order to avoid plagiarism, you have to understand what it is. This Copyright and Plagiarism Subject Guide (Links to an external site.)will help you to think through the important plagiarism issues. This is not just a library issues, the university has established the University of Utah Code of Student Conduct. (Links to an external site.)The University of Utah takes academic misconduct and plagiarism very seriously. Be sure you read and understand the
University policy on plagiarism.

Part 3: Managing Sources
There are a number of different citation management systems that you can use to collect and organize your sources. These systems can make it easier for you to keep track of which books or articles you're using for each paper, and they can also make it easier to create your bibliographies. Each of the systems below has its own strengths and weaknesses, and it is up to you and your instructor to decide which system works best for your needs.

NoodleTools
NoodleTools is a teaching tool that helps you learn how to correctly cite a wide variety of sources. There is no import feature and you can only export citations in MLA, APA, and Chicago fomats. Here is the NoodleTools Subject Guide (Links to an external site.)

Introduction to NoodleTools (Links to an external site.)

NoodleTools website (Links to an external site.) (do not use this link to set up account) use this NoodleTools link (Links to an external site.) to register and set up your account

EndNote Basic
You can access Endnote Basic, a free web based application, through the library databases tab under the letter "E". You have to be on campus to set up your account the first time but then after that you can use it from anywhere. There is a desktop version of Endnote but it costs money to use it. I just use the free online version.

Endnote website (Links to an external site.) to set up an account and also access the application
Endnote How-To Library Guide (Links to an external site.)that will how you how to set up and use the software
Endnote web tutorials (Links to an external site.)

Mendeley Citation Management Tool - free download and works best with science databases that has a collaboration component to it, and a way to do annotations on PDFs. they have a very nice help and support website!

Mendeley website (Links to an external site.)
Mendeley How-To Library Guide (Links to an external site.)
Help guides (Links to an external site.)
Video tutorials (Links to an external site.)

Zotero - is another free tool and requires an installation on your computer or laptop and has an iPad applciation

NoodleTools is a tool that will help you learn about citations. The instructor can share your folder or your group's folder of citations. Will require more manual copy and paste work. You MUST set up this tool by using the Research Databases Tab, since your university account is linked to our subscription - you cannot set up an account from the main website

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