Collecting references

In this writing project example, our topic is "Apes and Language". It is a sample paper from the book "Rules for Writers" by Diana Hacker (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's 2004). After receiving a topic, the first thing to do is to search your university library catalog. If you can find a good book or review article about your topic, you can quickly see what research has been done in the area. Then you can go into detail by searching for research articles about what you will write. There are many citation databases available on the Web. Your university subscribes to many citation databases from commercial providers. There are also quality citation databases freely available on the Web like Google Scholar and PubMed.

Search your university library catalog

1.	After creating a new database in the last tutorial, it will be automatically opened the next time you start Biblioscape. There are 4 top level items created in the project tree. Open "Folder" and click the "References" folder.

2.	On the search panel, click the "Online Search" tab on the right.

Click on the "Z39.50" tab at the top. There are only a few favorite Z39.50 sources listed. If your university is not listed, double click on any Z39.50 source. There are 2,000 plus pre-defined Z39.50 sources. If you want a source to be listed in the "Online Search" tab, check the "Favorite" box and click the "Close" button.
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In this tutorial, let's search the University of Georgia library catalog as an example. Under the "Z39.50" tab, select the source "U Georgia" and enter "ape language" as the search string. After pressing the Enter key, Biblioscape will send the search string to the University of Georgia library catalog server and return the total number of hits. There are a total of 15 records found. By default, Biblioscape will retrieve 10 records per batch after you click the OK button.
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5.	All 10 hits will be automatically imported into the "Online Search" folder which is a temporary place for your hits. You need to go through each hit and drag and drop the ones you want to keep into the "References" folder.

Clicking the "References" folder will retrieve the hits you want to keep. In the preview panel, you can find a book's call number by scrolling down. Now you can go to the library and find the book by the call number. If you have run lots of online searches, you may have a large number of unwanted records in the "Online Search" folder. You can click the "Empty Online Search Folder" button to clean up the folder periodically.
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Search Google Scholar

After reading the books checked out from your university library, you may start to develop some ideas about what types of research should be included in your review article "Apes and Language". For example, if you became interested in the sub-topic "chimp language wars" and want to find out some of the research papers about this topic, you can run another type of Biblioscape Online Search against Google Scholar.

1.	If you are not in the References module, click a references folder. In the search panel on the right, click "Online Search". Click the "Web Search" tab at the top.

2.	Select "Google Scholar". Enter the search string "chimp language wars" and press the Enter key.

3.	Biblioscape will send the search to Google Scholar and automatically import the first 10 hits into the "Online Search" folder. As with Z39.50 search hits, you need to go through each hit and drag and drop the ones you want to keep into a references folder.

Another useful feature in Biblioscape is to find related references. For example, after the searching Google Scholar for "chimp language wars", you find the first hit "Gibbons, A. 1991" to be a valuable source. You can then click the "Related" tab in the preview panel. Biblioscape will display top 10 most relevant references to the "Gibbons, A. 1991" paper. You can go through the list. If you find another interesting paper in the list, click on the hyperlink text "Import into BibTeX". Biblioscape will automatically import the reference into the current references folder.
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Now you have found some interesting papers. It is time to go to the library and make photo copy of those papers. In recent years, the full text of recently published scientific papers have become freely available, especially in the life science fields. Google has also made part of the full text of many published books freely available. When you browse to a new reference, Biblioscape will search the Internet for freely available full text. If it cannot find the full text, it will list the source of the full text and the price in case you cannot find a specific journal in your library. If you see a "*" sign next to the URL or PDF labels in the preview panel, you can click on that tab. You will find the full text or instructions about how to get the full text electronically.
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Enter a reference by Quick Add

Sometimes, you already know that a reference is valuable and you just want to add it to your Biblioscape database. You can add a reference with minimum typing using Quick Add. For example, from reading another source, you know that Terrace H. S. published an important paper in 1979 about ape language. The following steps will show you how to add this reference using Quick Add.

1.	Click a references folder.

2.	Click the button "Quick Add" to make the Quick Add box visible. Type "terrace 1979 ape" and press the Enter key.

3.	Biblioscape will search the Internet and automatically import the best match into the current folder.

4.	You may have noticed that there is an "" sign after "PDF" in the preview panel. It means Biblioscape has found the full text of this paper. You can click on the "PDF" tab to read the full text.