![]() It also lets you add citation metadata for each item, like its sister software, but it is much more customizable – you can make metadata templates for each archive you visit, each document type, a specific collection, whatever suits your fancy. It lets you group images together to create new items so images of each page of letters, record books, and diaries can be viewed as a whole. Tropy is a desktop archival research software brought to you by the makers of Zotero, and it is my go-to resource for managing the nearly 20,000 images I took at the archives during my second year. Tropy (Free, available for Mac, Windows, and Linux) My favorite feature is the Quick Add wand on desktop – just type in an ISBN and BOOM! – citation managed.Ģ. The Zotero browser extension is a lifesaver – it lets you add books to your library without leaving iDiscover! The software also lets you tag sources by theme, type, and topic, so you can organize your library to suit your project. – alongside any PDFs, annotations, or research notes that you may have for that particular item, and its sync function gives you access to all your data both on the desktop app and on the web. Best used for secondary sources, it saves all of the metadata for the work in question – author, date, publication information, etc. ![]() Zotero is an oldie but a goodie – a digital reference manager developed by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, it allows you to keep track of the hundreds (or maybe thousands!) of books and articles that you engage with throughout your research. ![]() Zotero (Free, available for Mac, Windows, and Linux) As we all continue to navigate an increasingly virtual world during the coronavirus pandemic, I thought I would share a list of my favorite digital tools that I use to organize sources, annotate readings, manage citations, draft chapters, and conceptualize the ‘big picture’ of the PhD, in the hopes that they help make online research a little less daunting.ġ.
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