Citation Management Committee

 

Mission Statement

The Cornell University Library Citation Management Committee, formerly the Citation Management Working Group or CMWG (formerly Bibliographic Database Management group) is a subcommittee of PSEC's Reference & Outreach Committee.

CMWG promotes and educates the Cornell community about citation management software by providing documentation and training in the use of citation management products to CUL public services staff as well as to Cornell faculty, staff, and students and works with vendors to improve citation management services and products. Current members of the group are representative of IRIS, Mann, Engineering, Vet, Medical, and ILR libraries, CIT, and the Knight Writing Program. CMWG maintains a list, CiteManage-L, for feedback, reporting problems, and getting help with EndNote and RefWorks.

 

Overview and History

In 1998, Bob Kibbee created an interest group of librarians interested in personal bibliographic and citation management. They eventually assumed the name BDM and came under the IRPC umbrella. In 2001, the BDM spearheaded an unsuccessful attempt to get a site license for EndNote. In 2003, the BDM decided that RefWorks, a competing citation management system distributed by CSA offered many advantages over EndNote. RefWorks has comparable features, but is web based. Users can access and add to their citation databases from computers at the library, in their offices, in their dorm rooms, while at home on vacation, or when traveling anywhere in the world. In December 2004, the CMWG obtained joint funding from CIT and DRC for a campus site license for RefWorks.   In 2006, CMWG became a committee under Reference and Outreach Committee. 

 

Current activities and goals

 

  • Foster and promote RefWorks use on campus
  • Continue to monitor CiteManage-L to troubleshoot questions or problems encountered by patrons
  • Promote and educate the campus community about the features of citations managers
  • Support instruction in the use of citations managers as a component of information literacy
  • Offer RefWorks and EndNote instruction through workshops, handouts, tutorials, etc.
  • Monitor and report on RefWorks use on campus
  • Create and update webpages, guides, tutorials, handouts concerning RefWorks and EndNote
  • Work with database vendors to enhance citation manager functionality
  • Promote RefShare, an enhancement to RefWorks that allows subscribers to share their databases.
  • Investigate RefWorks applicability to legal studies
  • Promote campus projects using RefWorks—Use of RefWorks for Vivo faculty publications, special library collections, etc..

 

Citation Management Committee Wiki-- https://confluence.cornell.edu/display/cmwg/Home

 

Find meeting minutes, project reports, statistics, and current activities on the CMC Wiki. 

 

Members

CMC is actively seeking new members.  Please contact Susan LaCette,  skl2@cornell.edu

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Susan LaCette (ILR Reference), Co-Chair

skl2@cornell.edu

Virginia Cole (Olin Reference)

vac11@cornell.edu

Gabriela Castro Gessner (Olin Reference)

agc24@cornell.edu

Jim Morris-Knower (Mann Reference)

jpk15@cornell.edu

Helen Brown (Weill Medical Center)

habrown@med.cornell.edu

Tony Cosgrave (Olin Reference)

ajc5@cornell.edu

Bob Kibbee (ex-officio) (Olin Reference)

rk14@cornell.edu

Suzanne Whitaker (Veterinary Reference)

skw2@cornell.edu

Enrico Silterra (LTS Metadata Services)  

es287@cornell.edu

Xian Wu (Kroch Asia)

xw53@cornell.edu

Kaila Bussert (Olin Library)

kjb82@cornell.edu

Jacalyn Spoon (Adelson Library)

jcs93@cornell.edu

Diane Wach Miller (Human Ecology)

dwm98@cornell.edu

 

 

Updated June 18, 2008