Getting references by Online Search

Collecting references is an important part of research. Writing a research paper usually starts with reference search and collection. After receiving a research topic, the first thing people do is fire up a Web browser and read all you can find about the topic. Once you know the background knowledge, you want to read what other researchers have published in this area. In the old days, this was a time consuming process. It meant many trips to the library. You first used your library computer to search a commercial database that could only be accessed inside the library. This will be followed by many ups and downs in the elevator and many hours of photo copying journal articles. This has now all changed thanks to Google, and the law passed by congress to make the full text of all government funded research freely available to the public. Now anyone can access quality citation databases like Google Scholar and PubMed from anywhere at anytime. Biblioscape makes this process even smoother by combining the reference searching and collecting operations into a single step.