Training

Reference managers

Reference managers

Activity addressed to PDI and PhDs from the UPC. For doctoral students, this workshop is part of the "Your doctoral thesis" itinerary. At the end of the workshop, participants will know:

  • What is a referral manager and how to use it.
  • The advantages of using a program to manage bibliographic references. 
  • The main functionalities of the Zotero, Mendeley and Endnote Online programs. 

Content:

  1. Create a personal account and familiarize yourself with the work interface. 
  2. Incorporate references and documents from different options (databases, web pages, manual entry, other managers, ...). 
  3. Manage and organize references and documents (create folders, remove duplicates, tags, filters, ...).
  4. Reading and annotation of PDF documents.
  5. Insert citations and bibliographies in manuscripts in a particular bibliographic style. 
  6. Share references and documents with other users.​

 

Next year we will schedule new sessions of this workshop.

 

In the meantime you will find more courses, workshops and webinars at Bibliotècnica,ICE i theDoctoral School.



Price: Free for members UPC. External, 25 eur / h

Addressed to: PhD, PDI

Keywords: Bibliography, Information search, Your doctoral thesis, Information organization, Information resources, Library services

More information: 

L'ICE will issue a certificate of attendance to participants, provided they have previously registered through the established means (electronically through the web) and have been accepted.

The teaching and research staff of the UPC who participates in the activity, a few days after the end, will automatically have the information in DRAC.

For doctoral students this course is recommended in an initial phase of thesis preparation and is part of the itineraryYour doctoral thesis', consisting of the following courses:

  1. Start the thesis on a good footing: organize the information
  2. Data management plan
  3. Reference managers
  4. Scientific publication
  5. Visibility and impact indicators
  6. Elaboration of the manuscript of the thesis
  7. Open science
  8. DRAC for PhD students

This itinerary is complemented by two courses given by theDoctoral School:

We also offer workshops and webinars on other programs and aspects related to bibliography management: