Literature Reviews in the Social Sciences

The importance of having an organizing system for your sources cannot be overstated.  It will save you time and tears in the long run, and you're best off picking a system early in the process and sticking with it.

There are three systems that the library can help you with:  Zotero, RefWorks & EndNote.  These tools are called citation management software.  

This is what they do:

• Serve as a place to keep your citations
• Work in tandem with most databases & catalogs, so you can easily 'save' the sources you find and review them later
• Systems for organizing--usually within folders
• Create & export bibliographies
• Share with others in a group, professors, etc.

Plus links to other types of software (Zotero, EndNote, etc.)