Guides: Library Resource Liaison Guide to Services and Information: Useful Sites

Guides and Links to Resources

Citation Management Tools
An in depth and comparative look at citation tools including End Note, Zotero, Mendeley, Refworks, and Papers
Penn Center for Teaching and Learning
Creating Research Posters
Making a research poster? Link to this guide to get started
Browzine and Other Alerting Services
BrowZine is an alerting service for your tablet or iphone that allows you to browse, read and monitor many of the Penn Libraries journal subscriptions on your iPad, iPhone, Android or Kindle. It works by pulling together articles from library subscribed databases, uniting them into complete issues and displaying them in a “newsstand” type presentation.
Data & GIS
This guide will assist with gathering, analyzing and/or visualizing data, provides links to tools available through the library, and directs you to assistance.
Copyright and Scholarly Communications at Penn
Jam packed with information on the copyright and scholarly works, whether it is your own work or that of a third party.

Identifying Collections Beyond Penn

Google Scholar
Access to Google Scholar with Penn-only links to full-text articles. Once authenticated through Penn's proxy, full-text articles to which Penn Libraries subscribe will become available within the Google Scholar search results.

Hathittrust Digital Library
HathiTrust Digital Library is a digital preservation repository and highly functional access platform. It provides long-term preservation and access services for public domain and in copyright content from a variety of sources, including Google, the Internet Archive, Microsoft, and in-house partner institution initiatives.
Worldcat
Archival material, dissertations, newspapers, recordings, video, Web sites, books, manuscripts, databases, from libraries around the world. Most libraries in the United States and major libraries from around the world have collections represented in Worldcat. Nonsubscription version available at worldcat.org
Internet Archive
Look for Penn's collections at the Internet Archive, as well as archived Web pages, TV News archive, video, and much more

Publishing and Style Guides

The libraries maintain up-to-date editions for most academic style guides. The Chicago Manual of Style is available online as well as in print. Purdue University's OWL provides extensive online guides for MLA, APA, and Chicago. Also, see the link the NIH Public Access Policy and publishing guide above.