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Reference management softwares

Reference management softwares

Activity addressed to UPC PDI and PhD students. For doctoral students, this activity belongs to the "Your doctoral thesis" training itinerary. At the end of the workshop, participants will know:

  • What is a reference manager software 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 quarter we will schedule new sessions of this workshop.

In the meantime you will find more courses, workshops and webinars in Bibliotècnica, the ICE and the Doctoral School.



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

Directed to: PhD, Teaching and research staff (PDI)

Keywords: Bibliography, Information organization, Information resources, Information search, Services of libraries, Your doctoral thesis

More information: 

The ICE will issue a certificate of attendance to the 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 participate in the activity, a few days after the end, will automatically have the information in DRAC.

For PhD students this course is recommended in an initial phase of making your thesis and it belongs to 'Your doctoral thesis' training path, made of the following courses:

  1. Get off on the right foot with your thesis: organising information
  2. Data management plan (DMP)
  3. Reference management softwares
  4. Scientific publication
  5. Visibility and impact indicators
  6. Elaboration of the thesis manuscript
  7. Open science
  8. DRAC for PhD students

This itinerary is complemented by two courses taught by the Doctoral School:

We also offer workshops and webinars about different softwares and aspects related to bibliography management: