Bibliography Project

 

Quick Overview

 

A significant component of the discussion is a conversation about sources made possible by new, integrated, "folksonomy" software that allows a large number of users to post their own bibliographies of sources, link them to the bibliographies of others, and label them with multiple tags that can help to produce a conceptual map of the field.  In the deluge of information--especially in academic publishing--this allows scholars to find out what scholars with similar interests are reading, and also allows scholars to call attention to the place that their own work plays in the conversation.

 

Central to this effort is a free bibliographic software network called citeulike.  To begin the conversation Kevin Deegan-Krause and Heather Stoll of the University of California, Santa Barbara, have begun to post and tag key articles in the field. For a quick overview of what we have done so far, see the group page:

http://www.citeulike.org/group/ecpr2007cleavages

 

For a quick overview of the tags we are suggesting, see:

Citeulike tagging suggestion sheet

 

 

 

Obsessively Detailed Overview

 

You may use this account or create an account of your own.  Depending on your goals, you may choose one or the other.

 

To read and post selected full-text articles (Lipset & Rokkan, Sartori, Bartolini, etc), you can login to the ecpr2007cleavages account (using the password sent by email to program participants) and then click on the blue "ecpr2007cleavages" link at the top or click directly on the link below.

Here you can find the initial common bibliography.  Nearly all of the articles are there in full text .pdf files and it is our goal to post the rest in full within the coming months.  If you have access to full-text files of articles that you want to post (including your own), please do so using this account.

 

How to read full-text articles.

1. Login to the ecpr2007cleavages (using the password sent by email to program participants.  You can request this by sending an email to ecpr2007cleavages@gmail.com)

    

2. Click on the blue ecpr2007cleavages link at the top center.  

    

3. Articles with the icon are available in full text.  Click on the icon to download and read.

 

How to post full-text articles.

1. Login to the ecpr2007cleavages (using the password sent by email to program participants.  You can request this by sending an email to ecpr2007cleavages@gmail.com)

    

2. Click on the blue ecpr2007cleavages link at the top center.
3. Depending on the availability of the article in a major database, you will follow one of two paths:

    

   • If the article is available on-line through a major database, you can probably add the citation automatically.  Click on the blue "post article" link in the navigation bar on the left and follow the instructions to add a bookmark to your web browser from which you can add the citation itself.  Go to step 5.
   • If the article or book is not available through a major database, click on the blue "manually post article" link in the navigation bar on the left and fill in the form with available information.  When you are finished, click the grey "Post article" button. 
4. Add tags to the article that help you to remember it and that would help others to find it if they were looking for similar articles.  To prevent searches from failing because of minor differences in wording, you may want to use our Citeulike tagging suggestion sheet.  Give articles as many tags as apply.
5. If it applies, make sure that you scroll down to "social studies" in the Subject box.
6. Click the grey "Post Article" button.  If you wish to leave an abstract or annotation, fill the box with text and hit the grey "Post Article with Comments" box.
7. In the yellow box marked Personal PDF, use the grey "Browse" button to find the file you want to upload and then click the grey "Upload" button.  The process may take a few moments.

 

 

 

 

To post citations of your own without full-text, you can use your own account.  First you will need to register.  

 

 

How to register your own account

1. Click on the blue register link at the top center of the screen.
2. Create a username and password for yourself and give an email address that you commonly use.  Click the grey sign up button in the lower right hand corner     
3. Click on the blue "view group" link (third from the bottom on the left hand navigation bar)
4. Scroll down to ecpr2007cleavages (the number of users will be listed in parentheses)
5. Click the blue "ask to join this group" on the right hand side.  On some internet browsers, you may need move all the way to the right with the scroll-bar to find it.
6. When it says "Are you sure?" click "ok"

 

 

How to post citations

1. Depending on the availability of the article in a major database, you will follow one of two paths:

    

   • If the article is available on-line through a major database, you can probably add the citation automatically.  Click on the blue "post article" link in the navigation bar on the left and follow the instructions to add a bookmark to your web browser from which you can add the citation itself.  Go to step 5.
   • If the article or book is not available through a major database, click on the blue "manually post article" link in the navigation bar on the left and fill in the form with available information.  When you are finished, click the grey "Post article" button. 
2. Add tags to the article that help you to remember it and that would help others to find it if they were looking for similar articles.  To prevent searches from failing because of minor differences in wording, you may want to use our Citeulike tagging suggestion sheet.  Give articles as many tags as apply.
3. If it applies, make sure that you scroll down to "social studies" in the Subject box.
4. Click the grey "Post Article" button.  If you wish to leave an abstract or annotation, fill the box with text and hit the grey "Post Article with Comments" box.

 

 

 

To share your bibliography with others and receive updates about others' updates, you can join the group called ecpr2007cleavages and receive RSS feeds.

 

How to join the ecpr2007cleavages group

1. Go to the www.citeulike.org homepage and again click on the blue "view group" link (third from the bottom on the left hand navigation bar).
2. Again scroll down to ecpr2007cleavages (the number of users will be listed in parentheses.  It should be one higher than the last time you saw it).
3. All of your postings and all those of others in the group can be found at http://www.citeulike.org/group/ecpr2007cleavages.

    

How to receive updates to the bibliography through an RSS feed

1. On the www.citeulike.org homepage click the blue link for ecpr2007cleavages to go to the page containing all citations by all members of the group.  To track recent posts to this group by any member, scroll to the bottom of the screen and click the orange RSS button.  On most browsers (especially Firefox and the most recent version of Internet Explorer, this will enable you to  track recent postings from your browser.  For more on RSS, see: http://weblogg-ed.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/RSSFAQ4.pdf.  To use it with the Firefox browser, see http://johnbokma.com/firefox/rss-and-live-bookmarks.html

 

To learn more about the uses of citeulike in academic research, you can see some well-done tutorials and discussions on savageminds.org.  These are geared primarily toward anthropology but are easily cross-applied to other social sciences http://savageminds.org/2005/06/27/tutorial-how-to-use-citeulike-with-anthrosource/