Citation and Research Tools
The library provides the DACC community with Noodletools, a citation tool, to help students and staff cite sources properly. Noodletools takes users through a series of questions and allows them to enter information to create citations in MLA, APA and Chicago/Turabian formats. Users can also create notecards and outlines as well as share their work with fellow students or instructors. Noodletools also syncs with Google Docs.
The Noodletools and Citing Your Sources page provides the links to Noodletools as well as additional information about using the resource and links to other citation resources. These include links to sample papers and links to useful citation resources
Other highly respected citation and research tools are freely available.
Zotero is a free, open-source download and is very useful for faculty or students. It enables users to gather, organize and store research for easy retrieval, cite material in 9000 different formats to cover a variety of research and publication requirements, collaborate with others, and integrate your bibliographies in Word, GoogleDocs or LibreOffice.
Zotero also has ZoteroBib a quick bibliography builder that lets you use a variety of quick identifiers (such as DOI, PMID, URL) to create a bibliography in chosen style.
A free-download research tool and community, Mendeley is predominantly used by people in the sciences and technology fields. It enables users to collect and sync their research library. One of its greatest virtues for people in those fields is that it links researchers together, identifies jobs and funding opportunities
Mendeley provides a citation plug-in that lets you build citations as you write. It works with Word or LibreOffice. The plug-in includes the specs for 8000 specific formats.
Mendeley is owned and operated by Elsevier.