Bibliographic Software

One of the best investments of time you can make is to use bibliographic software to store and manage the hundreds of references you will accumulate through your graduate experience. The University provides a service called RefWorks that will manage references and provide you with formatting options. However, once you leave the university, you lose access to this service, and your hundreds of references. Many people use EndNote or ProCite, but these are expensive solutions. Highly recommended is another product called Biblioscape, which has the functionality of EndNote (including direct import from Scholars Portal, JSTOR, Ebsco, and UTL (via RefWorks), but at half the price of EndNote for the Standard Version, and FREE for the “lite” version, called BiblioExpress. BiblioExpress is quite adequate for someone doing a Master’s degree, and the database can be imported to the full Biblioscape for any more advanced requirements.