Digital Literature

How to Save Time & Trees When Reading Academic Papers

Colin Gray www.wildtrails.co.uk @elearningcolin

Why?

What a Waste!Where was that again…?Oh dear.. It’s gone…But I don’t have my laptop!

How?

Citations – Desktop/Laptop ApplicationReading/Annotating – Phone/TabletNotes – Desktop/Laptop Application

Citation Managers

Zotero Vs Mendelay

How do they work?

Adding Papers

Space

Mobile Access

Organisation

More info: http://youtu.be/53QRA_SNSzE

Handling PDFs

Read By:

Citation Manager?

Standalone?

My Workflow

Aquiring a new paper:

‘Research’ & ‘Inbox’ folders in Dropbox

New papers => ‘Inbox’ => ‘Research’

Less automation…

Zotero devours and stores

My Workflow

Reading a new paper:

Open on Tablet via Dropbox

Annotations made in-paper Yellow/Green/Red

Tablet syncs with Dropbox

Annotated paper available anywhere

My Workflow

Processing a new paper:

Each section > reflections into Evernote

Title & Authors at the Top

Tag by Theme (keywords) & Year

Content is also searchable

My Workflow

Reviewing papers:

Searchable by any combination of tags

Searchable also by content keywords

Citations available instantly from Zotero

Where?

Evernote.com

Mendelay.com

Zotero.org

Goodreader (iOS)

RepliGo (Android) & DropSync (Android)

Google Nexus 7 or Samsung Galaxy Tab 7”

iPad Mini (if you’re flush)

Thanks for Watching

Any questions, or feedback:

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