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Youtopia™: Your Student Engagement App

Youtopia is an online, student engagement application that provides instant access to plug-and-play gamification tools (points, badges, and leaderboards) tha...
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Making Sense of a Large Research Library: Curate Your References and Papers with Mendeley

Robin Good: Mendeley is a cross-platform research tool, which can help you tap into a vast online library of over 30 academic paper databases, while helping you "curate" your own library of references, bibliographies and reference documents.

 

From the official site: 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 available.

 

Key features:

 

-> Generate citations and bibliographies in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice, and LaTeX.


-> Open PDFs and capture your thoughts through sticky notes and highlights.


-> Import and organize PDFs from your computer, EndNote™, Papers or Zotero.


-> Collaborate with colleagues and securely share your papers, notes and annotations.


-> Access your papers on the web, iPhone or iPad.


-> Discover papers, people and public groups.

 

Compare with other research tools: http://www.mendeley.com/compare-mendeley/ ;


Download: http://www.mendeley.com/download-mendeley-desktop/ (available for Mac, PC, Linux and iOS)

 

Video tutorials: http://www.mendeley.com/videos-tutorials/ ;

Find out more: http://www.mendeley.com/ ;


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Charles Rein's comment, June 8, 2012 11:42 AM
I used to be in Awe in Syracuse University Libraries (5) the amount of information available at your finger tips. The Internet and software tools make the World at our fingertips