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Postgraduate Students

This Research Support Library guide provides a general resource on research information and will be updated regularly. The Library Subject Guides provide subject specific information and should be used alongside this guide.

Managing Information

As a researcher you will collect, read, and review a large amount of literature and information. You will want to ensure that your use of research materials is ethical and that you develop an efficient workflow for managing information. Referencing software keeps an electronic database of all the references you use and can easily generate a bibliography and format it in many different styles for you

 

 

Manage Your References

This site will help you reference just about any source and understand how to avoid plagiarism.

 EndNote Online will help you manage bibliographies and references when writing assignments and articles, Yeats Library staff can assist you in using EndNote Online.

 Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online and discover the latest research.

 Zotero is a powerful easy to use research tool that helps you to gather, organize and analyze sources and then share the results of your research.

 Citeulike is a free service for managing and discovering scholarly references.

Sharing Files and Documents

OneDrive is Microsoft's file hosting service that's available for free to all owners of a Microsoft account. OneDrive offers users a simple way to to store, sync and share all kinds of files with other people ans devices on the web.

Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by American company Dropbox Inc. Dropbox simplifies the way you create, share and collaborate online.

 


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