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Do you need to complete a literature review? If so, find out how to begin, ways to organize what you find and what tools can assist.

FAU COCE (Center for Online and Continuing Education) Professional Development session of September 13, 2021, with librarian Lauri Rebar.

Finding a Permalink for a book, streaming video, or article is easy. Watch this short video. (0:35)

See a demonstration of how to export citations into .ris format, find the exported file on your computer, and then import them into your citation manager. (3:26)

Learn about Citation Tools, also called Citation Managers, and basics of how to use Mendeley Citation Manager. (11:33)
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Professional Development Presentation by Tom O'Brien and Larry Mello at the FAU Center for Online and Continuing Education (10/12/20)

This 18-minute recording provides an overview of journal-level bibliometrics such as Journal Impact Factor, CiteScore, Eigenfactor Score, and others. Find out how they are calculated and where they can be found!

Altmetrics are the descriptive data that can be used in addition to bibliometrics (e.g., CiteScore, Journal Impact Factor) that describe a work's impact. This 15-minute workshop gives 3 commonly used altmetrics, and how others can be found.

It’s not just for science! The Web of Science includes the Science, Social Science, and Arts and Humanities Citation Indexes.