New Bibliographies in the Library Catalog

We have added bibliographies to the library catalog. The first subject bibliographies are the Clinical Video Collection List and Writing and Publishing Bibliography.  We also have a new titles bibliography.

To access them, go to the library catalog. From the top menu, select Lists and select the appropriate type of list. Subject bibliographies are called Special Titles.

Some of the lists will only be relevant to patrons who visit campus. Some will be a mix and some will be lists of ebooks available to all of our patrons. You can click on the title of the item to find out more information about any specific book or video.

Special Titles lists will be updated periodically with new content.

Current Special Titles include:
Clinical Video Collection List - Includes DVDs and VHS tapes.
Writing and Publishing Bibliography - Includes Ebooks and print books.

Current New Titles include:
Selected New Ebooks 6/2012

We will be adding more bibliographies soon.

Questions? Please email us at refdesk@sofia.edu

Searchable Meditation Bibliography

I just discovered ION's Searchable Bibliography of Meditation Research, a wonderful and current bibliography on the physical and psychological effects of meditation:

http://www.noetic.org/research/medbiblio/biblio.htm

From the site:

This bibliography was upgraded and updated in 2009. Our intent is to provide access to citations for all scientific research studies into meditation that have been published in English.

We have earlier editions of this bibliography in the original book format under the title: The physical and psychological effects of meditation : a review of contemporary meditation research with a comprehensive bibliography 1931 - 1996. Of course, we suggest you take advantage of the more dynamic searching possible in the Web version.

Citation Creation Options

There are a few tools out there to help you create APA citations. Whenever you use any tool to create an APA citation, please make sure you check it against the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Some don't accomodate unusual citations or they work with a generic template that doesn't follow APA to the letter.

In CSA, QuikBib is available to create citations you find to APA format. You can then email them or paste them into your document. To find this feature, simply search CSA as usual, then select your records and click on Save, Print, Email. Look for the section that starts with "New! Create a bibliography with QuikBib (Only records for Published Works will be processed.)" Choose the APA format and click on Create. A new window will open with output options at the upper right hand corner. It is easy and almost painless.

There are some software applications out there that help manage and create citations.*
EndNote (for purchase)
BiblioExpress (free)
*We haven't fully evaluated these yet, but several students we know use EndNote and love it. Let us know what you think if you try either of these.

There are also some citation creators freely available on the Web.
KnightCite - created at Calvin College
There are others like this out there, just search "citation creator" or similar terms in your favorite search engine, but this looked like a good one. Please share with us if you have a favorite citation creator. As with the other options, please be very wary of tools that don't really adhere to APA format. For example, my initial look at Son of Citation Machine, another Web-based citation creator, didn't make the cut for me.