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Gathering literature and creating references

How to manage your research (resources and references)

During your research and looking for input from books, journals or other materials, you will have to deal with a lot of information, while searching scientific information you are building up a collection of relevant literature – it means managing and processing references. You have to put it all together and manage references using special programme.

WUT ML recommends the following free programmes, for creating your own database. Special programmes can help you put it all together and create references automatically:

Zotero - free access
EndNote Web - free access for teaching and research staff via ISI Web of Knowledge platform
Mendeley - free reference manager

References management software programme offers tools helping you “organize” all searching results. Here is what the programme can do:

Your references will be in your own searchable database
You can import descriptions from online databases, catalogues, journal indexes, full text sources
Your searching results will be automatically formed for your references in the style you choose

If you collect references from many different resources, you have to remember to refer to the source you have been using, you should develop the list of cited papers as footnotes or endnotes

Copyrights

All researchers and students have follow the copyright law if they cite other authors` articles, books or the Internet links.

Remember to inform about authors` names and titles of the sources.

Plagiarism

Accusations of plagiarism can have devastating consequences:

People in academic and scientific communities have lost their jobs and reputation for copying somebody work without giving credit to it, also financial consequences
More details - see Polish civil and criminal law