New Refworks interface coming!

• New user interface for RefWorks to be launched first quarter 2010
• Current version will still be available for at least 6 months after launch

Refworks is an online research citation management tool that…

• Gathers references from article databases while you search
• Formats manuscripts and citations in a variety of styles (APA, etc.)
• Organizes a personal database of references, images, links, notes, tags, and PDFs
• Allows you to share references with colleagues around the world

The UW-Madison libraries subscribe to Refworks for all students, staff and faculty. Alumni can maintain perpetual access to their accounts after graduation.

Other research management tools include Endnote, Zotero, and Papers.

Widgets, toolbars & add-ons, oh my!

Library tools
UW-Madison's Ebling Library has created a variety of tools for free download, including:

• Ebling Library toolbar - search MadCat, Google Scholar, PubMed, etc.
• iGoogle gadgets - Library Express, Find It, Refworks, MadCat, health science resources
• Browser extensions - Firefox addons and Greasemonkey scripts

Journal, newspaper & e-book databases

• Knovel e-books: biochemistry, biotechnology, food science, toxicology, engineering - widget, toolbar and search plugin
  
• Lexis-Nexis news & legal resources - browser toolbar
  
• JSTOR journal database - Facebook app
  
• WorldCat global library catalog - Facebook app

Health sciences
UW-Madison's Ebling Library has collected a variety of tools, including:

• National Library of Medicine toolbar - PubMed, Medline, Entrez, NLM/NIH resources
  
• HONcode toolbar - "health information you can trust"

Research citation management

• Endnote Web - Internet Explorer and Firefox plug-ins
• Refworks - Write-n-Cite and RefGrab-It tools
  
• Zotero - Firefox extension

FREE! Bio/chem software

Did you know?
UW faculty, staff & students can download these chemical software tools for free!

ChemBioOffice 2008

• Includes ChemDraw Std 11.0, ChemDraw ActiveX, and Chem3D ActiveX
  
• Draw chemical reactions and structures - MS Office integration, customizable arrow tools, color faded shapes, and terminal carbon labeling
• Query online databases and view & publish online structures

SciFinder Scholar

• World's largest collection of organic & inorganic substance information
• 16 million+ chemical reactions
• 1 billion+ predicted & experimental properties
• CAS Registry number database
• Patent records within 2 days of issue
• Sequences from CAS and GenBank, linked to the literature
• Article abstracts from 10,000+ currently published journals
• Regulatory and supplier information
  

Beilstein / Gmelin MDL Crossfire Commander

• Beilstein (organic) & Gmelin (inorganic/organometallic) databases provide preparations, reactions and properties of chemical substances
  
• Searchable by chemical structure, formula, physical property parameters, chemical reaction, and literature citation
• Beilstein also includes pharmacological, ecotoxicological and bioactivity data

More tools

• Chemistry Computing Center software
• Condor - distributed, high-throughput computing
• Game of Life
• Mauve - genome evolution
• OME at LOCI - microscopy visualization
• Steenbock Library Infolab - Amino Acids, Stryer's Biochemistry, etc.
• WinPLT - chemical structures