CiteWrite Researcher Addon - for Dr Paper Software version 4

The Researcher Addon for Dr Paper 4 helps you connect to sites (see below for a list of the sites) with information on research materials (articles, books, and reports) on your topic, and collect bibliographic information and abstracts for potential research materials in CiteWrite. It will save you hours of time!

The Researcher addon also lets you enter active website addresses in your records in the Reference field -- so you can easily get back to websites you are citing in your paper. Just double click on the URL to start your browser and open the web page. You can even enter links to files on your computer using the Researcher addon.

Click to browse the documentation

Click to see how it works on PsycArticles

Use CiteWrite to connect to one of the research sites (listed below).

Search the site for research materials on your topic (click here for an example).

Browse through the search results, highlight the ones you'd like to read, and import the bibliographic information into a CiteWrite datafile.

Print a Reading List for all the source works you've collected.

Use the records in CiteWrite to cite your sources as you are writing your paper.

The current release of the Researcher addon supports the following online databases and catalogs:

PsycArticles, from the American Psychological Association
APA's Online PsycArticles database let you search for articles published in 56 Psychology Journals, with the option of getting full text delivery of articles for a fee. (For members of the American Psychological Association who have signed up for the service, full text of the articles is available as part of the membership.) If you are downloading the full text of articles, you can include a link to the full text in the CiteWrite record created by the Researcher.
Ingenta Connect
Ingenta is a free service on the internet that allows you to search over 29,000 periodicals in all disciplines. You can also order fax delivery for most articles with a credit card. It's a good place to start looking for materials published in periodicals.
PsycInfo, from the American Psychological Association
APA's PsycInfo database lets you search for articles published in about 2,000 Journals, in Anthropology, Business, Education, Neuroscience, Psychology, Sociology, and a number of other disciplines. Access to PsycInfo is restricted to APA members who have paid to subscribe to the search service, and those who pay for searches on a 24 hour basis. Some of the journal publishers (not all) provide the option of getting full text delivery of articles, for a fee. (For members of the American Psychological Association who have signed up for the service, full text of the articles is available as part of the membership.)
PubMed
The National Library of Medicine indexes articles published in medical and various life science subjects in the PUBMED database. Searching PUBMED is free to the public.
The Library of Congress Online Catalogue
The Library of Congress Catalog is among of the most complete listings of published books on the internet. You can search by Author, Subject, Title, Date -- or ISBN number. If you are using a book as a source, you can search the Library of Congress, and import the information into CiteWrite (so you don't have to type it yourself). Searching the Library of Congress Online Catalog is free to the public. Use it to catalog your own library!
EBSCO
EBSCO is a subscription based service indexing a wide range of journals. It is available, however, only through school library gateways. If you have access to this service through your school, you can import records from search results into Citation using the Online Researcher.
Highbeam.com
Highbeam.com is a subscription based service indexing a number of journals; it is intended for college prep and undergraduate level research. A free trial is available to individuals.

General Instructions for Using the CiteWrite Researcher Addon

Open a datafile with CiteWrite. When you are first beginning to work with the Researcher, we suggest you open a blank datafile.
On the CiteWrite Main Menu, click Research, and select one of the services listed. CiteWrite will start your Browser, and go to the website selected.
Do a search on the service you've chosen.

Set the options for viewing the results (for most sites, you can view either one record at a time, or multiple records).

Ingenta Connect You can display either individual records, with abstracts, or multiple records you have marked, as "Plain text." When you chooose the "Export, Plain text" option, abstracts for the articles are not included.

PsycArticles Displays search results on screen, up to 100 at a time.

PsycInfo Requires the Full Record View of the Search Results. Displays search results on screen, up to 100 at a time.

PubMed Requires either Abstract View or MEDLINE view. Displays search results on screen, up to 500 at a time.

Lib of Congress Requires either Full Record View or Print to Text view. Displays search results on screen; no published limit.

Highlight and copy a record (or a group of records) in the Search Results. (Press Ctrl+C, or Edit, Copy on your browser). In most cases, you can highlight more than one record at a time, if you like; see the examples below for more details.
Click Research, Import Record on the CiteWrite menu.
Read through the imported records and edit any "anomalies" in the data. This is a very important step, as it is not always possible to make absolutely certain the information in the records imports in the correct format for CiteWrite.
Note that Records imported into CiteWrite will include the keyword "readlist."
You will be able to click Format, Write Bibliography now, and print out a Reading List of the source works you've included in your datafile.
Save the datafile.

Using the Researcher on Ingenta Connect, with Abstracts

Using the CiteWrite Research feature on Ingenta Connect, with Abstracts:

On the CiteWrite Main Menu, click Research, and select Ingenta. CiteWrite will start your browser, and go to the Ingenta Connect home page.
Enter a search term.
Click on any of the articles in the Search Results listing to display information about the article. This view will include an abstract for the article, if one is available.
Highlight and copy the record.
Click Research, Import in CiteWrite to add the record to your CiteWrite datafile.

For example:

We went to Ingenta Connect, and entered the search term hurricane:
Ingenta returned a page listing the results:
We clicked on the third article on Environmental Risk to display the full record for this article, with the abstract. We then highlighted it and pressed Ctrl+C to copy the record.
To import this record to the CiteWrite datafile, we clicked Research, Import in CiteWrite:

Importing multiple records (without abstracts) from Ingenta Connect:

On the CiteWrite Main Menu. Click Research, and select Ingenta. CiteWrite will start your browser, and go to the Ingenta Connect home page.
Enter a search term. Ingenta will display a page listing the results.
At the top of the Search Results screen, click the option to Export (plain text).
The records will be displayed, with two letter field tags, but without the Abstracts:

You can press Ctrl+A to highlight all the records, and then Ctrl+C to copy them. (You can also click Edit, Select All (in the browser) to highlight all the records on the page, and then click Edit, Copy. ) Or, if you prefer, you can highlight and copy on record at a time.
In CiteWrite, click Research, Import Record (or Ctrl+I) to add the records to the open CiteWrite datafile.
Once the records are in CiteWrite, review the records you've just added to make sure the data is in the proper format for CiteWrite records.

Using the Research feature with the PsycArticles database

Click Research, and select PsycArticle to go the American Psychological Association's PsycArticle service.
Enter a search.
Highlight the record(s) you want to add to your CiteWrite datafile, and press Ctrl+C.
Click Research, Import Records on the CiteWrite menu.
Once the records are in CiteWrite, review the records you've just added to make sure the data is in the proper format for CiteWrite records.

For example:

We did a search for 'hurricane":

We then marked 14 records on the Search Results page, and copied them:

Then we clicked Research, Import to import the records into CiteWrite:

Using the Research feature on the Library of Congress

Click Research, and select LOC to go the Library of Congress Online Catalog.
Click on the type of search you want (either Guided or Basic), enter a search term, and click OK. (You will want to note that you can search for an ISBN number, to locate the record for a book you are using as a source.)
In the Search Results listing, click on the work you want to include in your CiteWrite database.
Set the option to display the Full Record, and then highlight and copy the record.
In CiteWrite, click Research, Import Record in CiteWrite.
Review the record to make certain the information is correct.

For example:

We went to the Library of Congress Online Catalog, and ran an author search for
Diamond, Jared M.:

This search returned a number of books by Jared Diamond:

We then clicked on the listing for the book Collapse:

We copied this record, and imported it into CiteWrite:

We also could have checked the records we were interested in, and then clicked on the option (at the bottom of the screen) to Print or Save Search Results:
:

This option will display all the records (or all the records you've selected).
You can then copy these records and import them into CiteWrite.

Click Research, and select PubMed to go the PubMed Online Database.
Enter your search term(s), and click OK.
On the Search Results page, set the Display to Abstract. You can also change the number of records to display. If you prefer, you can set the display to MEDLINE. Using this display, you can easily copy all the search results at once.
Highlight and copy the record(s) you want to include in your datafile.
In CiteWrite, click Research, Import Record in CiteWrite.
Review the record to make certain the information is correct.

Note that there are several ways to import records from PubMed.

1.
You can set the option to display the records in MEDLINE format. The MEDLINE format is more difficult to read onscreen, but the records are more accurately imported into CiteWrite. You can check the records that interest you, and then click Display, MEDLINE. Press Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C to copy all the records, and then click Research, Import to add them to your datafile..

2.
You can check the records you are interested in, then Display them in MEDLINE format. Press Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C to copy all the records, and then click Research, Import to add all the records at once to your datafile.

3.
You can check the records you are interested in, then click SENDTO Text. Press Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C to copy all the records, and then click Research, Import to add all the records at once to your datafile.

For example:

On the PubMed site, we ran a search for
tsunami
, which returned 243 articles.
We set the display to Abstract, with 500 showing at a time so we could view all the articles that the search returned:

We then highlighted the articles we were interested in and copied them.

Then we imported the records into CiteWrite:

We could have displayed all the records in MEDLINE format:
From the MEDLINE display page, you can copy and import all the records at once.