Bibliographic Management Software Seminars: Funding and Implementation

This paper contains the grant proposal and final report for a project conducted by the California State University at Northridge library to demonstrate online database searching and introduce the use of bibliographic management software to faculty and graduate students. Day-long, discipline-oriented seminars were planned to increase the participants' knowledge of the contents and structure of the databases important to their research and to enable them to make informed decisions on which reprint software programs best suit their needs. The six programs presented were askSam, Notebook II, Nutshell/Reference Gateway, Pro-Cite, and Biblio-Links. A bibliography of software reviews and a handout providing overviews of the selected software, contact information, and purchase price are appended. (Contains 16 references.)