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Saving & sharing

You can store literature in many different ways, depending on your goal. If you only want to read the documents yourself, you can simply put the PDF-files in a "reading materials" folder. If you want to generate literature lists for your papers, you should use a proper reference management tool. If you want to share the literature with others, you should select a tool that supports the sharing of references.



Tagging

Adding tags will allow you to quickly and easily indicate what a file (an scientific article, for example) is about or what you could use it for. Tags are not just useful for yourself, but also for anyone else that you share your files with.

Tags of fellow students can make it easier for you to quickly find the useful documents in a list of shared literature. Of course, you can help your fellow students in the same way.

Read this module from Enriching.


http://tulib.tudelft.nl/managing-your-information/managing-information/

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Come up with three useful tags for the text below.

Compare your tags with the tag cloud. There is no right or wrong in this case, just useful and less useful. Tags that you want to share with others usually reveal the content of the publication; tags for your own use can also enrich the content.Check your answer




Reviews / Ratings

In addition to tags, you can also view reviews and ratings to determine if publications found by others are of interest to you. Ratings let customers or users express their opinion about things, from travel and restaurants to books and music.

This is an example of ratings and reviews for a book on Amazon.com:

https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/B01KGZVYDK/ref=acr_dpx_see_all?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

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Based on the information in the image above:

Which combination of data are useful in making the decision to buy the book "Scale: the universal laws of life, growth, and death in organisms, cities, and companies"?

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That is correct. The combination of rating and number of reviews gives an indication for the quality of the book. In this case there are a lot of positive reviews (92 out of 122 people gave a 4- or 5-star). But also look who has written the review: reviews of a reviewer in the ranking list are often more helpful. In this case a top 1000 reviewer has written a critical review and this review is judged as helpful by 314 people.

That is not correct. The correct matches are:

- rating and number of reviews

- reviews and status of reviewers

The combination of rating and number of reviews gives an indication for the quality of the book. In this case there are a lot of positive reviews (92 out of 122 people gave a 4- or 5-star). But also look who has written the review: reviews of a reviewer in the ranking list are often more helpful. In this case a top 1000 reviewer has written a critical review and this review is judged as helpful by 314 people.

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The reviewers themselves are also rated. Their position in the ranking list depends on the percentage of helpful reviews and how recent the reviews are:


http://www.amazon.com/review/top-reviewers


Tools

There are many tools for storing and processing literature, so compare a few of them and see which tool works best for you. Storing literature in a structured way from the start can save you a great deal of time in the long run. You can easily retrieve everything, and citing and paraphrasing can be done automatically and without typing errors.

This is a brief comparison of some available tools. What is of decisive importance to you?

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Which storage tool would you choose if you wanted to generate a literature list with the publications you found?

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That is correct.That is incorrect. The correct answer is Endnote. This is a tool for storing and managing your literature references..Your answer has been saved.
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