About My Library
The library allows you to collect and store resources for citations and bibliographies across 120 different types and formats. There are several functions that allow you to manage your library.
- View records and filter by document, collection, or resource type
- Manually add a record using an extensive "Fact Sheet" to capture a range of metadata and notes
- Import bulk records from a different source (e.g., a reference manager app)
- Export bulk records as a bibliography
- Find academic literature from 250 million online records
Insert citations into a document
To insert citations into a document, the library record must exist. The type of citation will be determined by the style guide you have applied to a specific document. We can format the following citation styles:
- author-date in text
- author in text
- footnote citations
- endnote citations
- blind endnotes are on our todo list
About the Fact Sheet
The fact sheet contains a range of metadata to enable accurate citations and bibliographies and store important information about your records. Metadata includes:
- Header contains the record title, any other key title (e.g., journal name), and the URL so we can fetch data for you
- Contributors (e.g., author, editor)
- Titles are a range of text labels for a record (e.g., short title, Journal name)
- Identifiers includes a range of data mostly required for citations and references
- Source: hardcopy (e.g., on your bookshelf), online (e.g., internet), or database (e.g., pubmed). Most citation styles have variations for references based on the source
- Notes: free text notes (6 types)
- Fetch some notes using AI is coming soon
- Tags to associate a record with a document or collection, assign its research domain and capture keywords
- Quick facts includes some data on the number of references contained in the record (if it is academic), how many times a record has been cited by others (if it is an academic), the read status, copyright license, security classification, and publication history
- Attachments where you can store a snippet of a website or the full-text PDF, MSWord, PPT, or Excel document for quick access
- Annotations: ability to annotate the full-text is coming soon
- Quick read: and AI summary of a full-text documents is coming soon
- Quick read with audio to listed to the full-text is coming soon
Tips:
- Records need to be assigned to a document in order to:
- cite that record in your text
- export a bibliography or reference list for that document
- We are working on a major upgrade to the library which will provide a more robust search engine and access to more online academic resources including full-text
See also:
- Add or edit a fact sheet
- Export a bibliography
- Import bulk records
- Find academic literature