The Online Researcher for Citation helps you collect bibliographic information and abstracts for potential research materials directly from selected sites on the internet.

The current release of the Online Researcher feature supports the online databases and catalogs listed below. Please return to this page often for updates and the most current version of the Researcher. Please send questions, and suggestions for services to add, along with sample records from that service, to citation@thewritedirection.net.

• 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.

• 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.)

• 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 fields. Access to PsycInfo is restricted to APA members who have registered for the search service, and others 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 Citation (so you don't have to type it yourself). Searching the Library of Congress Online Catalog is free to the public.

1. Open a datafile with Citation. When you are first beginning to work with the Researcher, we suggest you open a blank datafile.
2. On the Citation Main Menu, click Research, and select one of the services listed. Citation will start your Browser, and go to the website selected.
3. Do a search on the service you've chosen.
4. 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.

5. 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.
6. Click Research, Import Record on the Citation menu.

7. 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 Citation.

   Note that Records imported into Citation will include the keyword "readlist."

8. Save the datafile.

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

1. On the Citation Main Menu, click Research, and select Ingenta. Citation will start your browser, and go to the Ingenta Connect home page.
2. Enter a search term.
3. 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.
4. Highlight and copy the record.
5. Click Research, Import in Citation to add the record to your Citation 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 Citation datafile, we clicked Research, Import in Citation:

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

For example:

We did a search for 'hurricane":
We then marked all 14 records returned, and copied them:
Then we clicked Research, Import to import the records into Citation:

1. Click Research, and select LOC to go the Library of Congress Online Catalog.
2. 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.)
3. In the Search Results listing, click on the work you want to include in your Citation database.
4. Set the option to display the Full Record, and then highlight and copy the record.
5. In Citation, click Research, Import Record in Citation.
6. 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 Citation:
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 Citation.

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1. Click Research, and select PubMed to go the PubMed Online Database.
2. Enter your search term(s), and click OK.
3. 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.
4. Highlight and copy the record(s) you want to include in your datafile.
5. In Citation, click Research, Import Record in Citation.
6. 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 Citation. 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 Citation:
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.