Onboarding
Establishing good routines for collecting and organizing the literature, is one of the first things you should do when starting on a phd study.
Using a reference management software makes it easy to collect references, store the fulltext and to cite and create bibliographies correctly according to the selected output style. In addition to that, they allow you to add notes, annotate the pdf and to share your libraries, to mention some core functionalities.
There are several softwares out there. The BI library offers support on two of them, Zotero and EndNote. On Intra, we descripe the differences and how you can decide which application is best for you. On Intra we also provide some information on related tools used within finance and economics, such as BibTeX and Overleaf.
Zotero is a free and open reference handling program. Here's our Zotero guide: The library's Zotero guide
Course outline: useful preference settings, importation of references from databases and Google Scholar and other sources, finding fulltext, and annotation of pdf's, organize the library, using Zotero with Word, backup and more.
Before the session, please download the program and the Zotero Connector from zotero.org. After the installation, you’ll see the Zotero tab in Word.
Where and when: on Zoom, 1 hour, usually once a month throughout the semester. Dates are announced on Workplace. Send us an email to zotero@bi.no if you have questions.
Course resonsible: Toril Sigstadstø
The library offers one-to-one online or in-person support. We can help you getting started with downloading the program from the Company Portal on you computer, as well as preference setting, importation of references from databases, Google Scholar and othere sources, finding fulltext, organizing the library and more. We advise you to create an account on endnoteonline.com for backup purposes.
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If you have questions about any of the above, please contact: endnote@bi.no or directly to Ole Solberg or Astrid Heltne.