Category Archives: Research methods

mostly about how to find and cite research materials

Zotero to Endnote: part III

Posted on September 26, 2017 by Robert

This is the latest update of a note I first posted four years ago. Below is a summary of what I’m trying to do, then the revised solution. I use both Zotero and Endnote to do bibliographies. References that I … Continue reading →

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Two sources for the Weisberg Collection

Posted on April 3, 2016 by Robert

There are currently two places to get materials from the Weisberg collection. The main source is naturally the website that Hood College set up for the collection.  The second source is Archive.org. The Archive.org now has a “copy” of the … Continue reading →

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The Weisberg Collection

Posted on March 27, 2016 by Robert

While looking up some names from articles in Studies in Intelligence, I ran into another interesting on-line resource: the Harold Weisberg Archive, hosted at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland. When a number of CIA names kept turning up at the … Continue reading →

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Idle reading

Posted on October 15, 2015 by Robert

I confess to reading stuff on the internet when I should be working. Before you drag me off and shoot me, try this site. What is this? It is a sortable index to every article that has been declassified from … Continue reading →

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A Historical Relic?

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Robert

I recently ran across the Qing Research Portal, a website which unfortunately has stopped updating. It offers the “ECCP Reader”, an electronic version of Hummel’s Eminent Chinese of the Ch’ing Period, but the Windows version is not available, so I … Continue reading →

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Moving references from Zotero to Endnote: Part I

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Robert

how to export zotero references with file links, without actually copying the files as well. Continue reading →

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et al.+++

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Robert

Aubert, B., M. Bona, Y. Karyotakis, J. P. Lees, V. Poireau, E. Prencipe, X. Prudent, V. Tisserand, J. Garra Tico, E. Grauges, L. Lopez, A. Palano, M. Pappagallo, G. Eigen, B. Stugu, L. Sun, G. S. Abrams, M. Battaglia, D. … Continue reading →

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Backing up and recovering Endnote libraries

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Robert

I try to back up every file that gets changed in my working directory every day or two. This is not a problem except for one program: Endnote, still my main bibliography manager. Unlike 99% of all programs, even if … Continue reading →

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