Collecting references

Biblioscape is essentially a database management program of research information. The two most important sources of research information are: references and notes. For references data, it has become very easy to capture records directly into your database from the Internet. For notes data, it is likely you will manually enter the text over time as you annotate references, write down research notes, etc.

This chapter guides you through the first stage in the Biblioscape workflow. You will learn how easy it is to search and capture references on the web, search and capture book data available at your university libraries, import references from other programs or traditional sources like CD-ROM, as well as how to quickly enter a full reference by just typing a few words. The core of references importing in Biblioscape is the import filters. You will learn how to modify an import filter to better fit your needs, as well as how to create a new import filter in case no existing import filter can import your data source.