Online citation tools allow researchers to store and manage citations online rather than using paper or local files. Previously, finding information involved slow searches across multiple databases and printing or writing citations by hand [1]. New tools like CiteULike, Zotero, and Mendeley allow storing citations in the cloud, sharing with others, and importing references into documents [2]. By scraping citation data from websites, these tools make literature searching more efficient and collaborative [3].

1. Online citation Tools

2. First a little history
• Web 1 - modems. Data was slow to access
and slow to find. Wasn’t a huge benefit to
finding scholarly information online more
than a library - although textual databases
(not through a web browser) did have a
place

3. The Web 1 data finding
process

4. • 1. 0 Go to a computer terminal in a library
• 2. 1 Enter some search terms in one or more favourite
scholarly databases of journals
• 2.2 Become baffled why nothing or everything turns up
on a search (e.g. “occupational OR therapy”)
• 2.3 Spend the next two hours refining search terms
• 2.4 Get a list of references
• 2.5 Hope the search engine doesn't time out
• 2.6 Print or write out by hand a list of abbreviations and
citations that you then have to..
• 2.6 Scurry off to other databases to see if its online in
fulltext or in the library
• 3.0 Find the article or give up after spending a day at the
library without food or water.

5. And then what..

7. • A list of references or full-text photocopies/
print outs that become rapidly un-
manageable..

8. • A list of references or full-text photocopies/
print outs that become rapidly un-
manageable..
• A friend asks you “do you have such and
such article?” you grimace (because it has
taken you ages to find it) and say “think so”
because genuinely you have no idea whether
you did find it or not..

9. • A list of references or full-text photocopies/
print outs that become rapidly un-
manageable..
• A friend asks you “do you have such and
such article?” you grimace (because it has
taken you ages to find it) and say “think so”
because genuinely you have no idea whether
you did find it or not..

10. And then this Web 2.0
• Web 2 - broadband. Data faster = more
people online = more need to get all
information online. Becoming much more
useful

11. • But the Web 1 model still not much different
• More is online - not a lot harder to manage
and find data
• A real need for OT where data regarding
intervention is scattered and often not in
the top level scientific type journals

12. Data finding and
management is needed
for every OT because..

13. Data finding and
management is needed
for every OT because..
• We are all researchers
• We all need to find up-to-date information
• We all need to communicate with our peers
and share this information to build on it
• If its hidden away how can we?

14. The old way

15. The old way

16. The old way

17. The old way

18. The new way

19. The new way
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20. The new way = Social
citation managers

21. The new way = Social
citation managers
• Long word

22. The new way = Social
citation managers
• Long word
• Simple concept

23. The new way = Social
citation managers
• Long word
• Simple concept
• Citations stored online (“the cloud”) rather than your
own computer or paper(!)

24. The new way = Social
citation managers
• Long word
• Simple concept
• Citations stored online (“the cloud”) rather than your
own computer or paper(!)
• Focus is sharing your literature with others and finding
other relevant references rather than integrating with
word etc.. (e.g. Endnote)

25. The new way = Social
citation managers
• Long word
• Simple concept
• Citations stored online (“the cloud”) rather than your
own computer or paper(!)
• Focus is sharing your literature with others and finding
other relevant references rather than integrating with
word etc.. (e.g. Endnote)
• Export and Import your references / data

26. The new way = Social
citation managers
• Long word
• Simple concept
• Citations stored online (“the cloud”) rather than your
own computer or paper(!)
• Focus is sharing your literature with others and finding
other relevant references rather than integrating with
word etc.. (e.g. Endnote)
• Export and Import your references / data
• A number of sites (citeulike, mendeley) - all work slightly
different

27. An example
• CiteULike
• “scrapes” the data remotely
• E.g.
• Install the “browser button” (a complex url that sits in
your web browsers tool bar)
• 1. Find a citation on say pubmed
• 2. Click on the browser button on your toolbard
• 3. Citeulike looks at the URL and downloads the page
itself - it then extracts the data and presents it to you for
you to tag, upload the pdf etc..
• 3. Done! Carry on your literature search

28. Lots of others!
• Zotero - a firefox plugin - works very well - being used
by a large number of indviduals and fairly stable and well
developed
• Bibsonomy - an opensource citeulike clone. Useful for
placing on your own servers if you need to
• Desktop citation managers: endnote, bibdesk, refworks..
(but excusing bibdesk, they all cost!!) - good at
integrating into Word - rubbish at sharing and keeping
your data online (NB: you can export data from this into
an online based manager if you wish to get going quickly!)

29. Mendeley
• CiteULike is one of the easiest ways to get
started. Mendeley has a similar web interface
(& confusingly can sync with citeulike!) but
its real power comes in a desktop client
• You can start to use the client as a Endnote
replacement (it works with Word for
example) - as well as a starting point to find
more related articles

30. Academia.edu
• Like delicious (and thus citeulike) for
academia - but note - its for academia.. So
those who don’t have .edu or .ac.uk type
email address’ can forget it
• Many other features to help you connect
with other researchers
• Worth a look!

31. CiteULike part 2.
• You now have one citation in citeulike. Once
you have several you can collect them using
your tags and share them - either to a private
group (e.g. Workmates who would have the
same access to journals as you) or public (who
don’t see your fulltext uploads)
• People can comment on articles
• You can see which you have read and rate them
• You can also export lists (using tags) for use in
a bibliography or printed reading list (perhaps!)