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NoodleTools helps you write citations in MLA, APA, or Chicago format, and create annotated bibliographies. It also has tools to create notecards, draft an outline of your paper and keep track of "To Do" tasks. Citations can be exported directly to your Google Drive, or to Word or other formats.
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Do you have an article citation from a reference page? Get the article by using Find It @ WOU. The potential results are:
We often use bibliographies to discover works that the scholar referenced. These cited sources are necessarily older than the article.
How about reversing the process? Use Google Scholar to discover more recent works which cite the article or book you have.
Type the title of your article into the Google Scholar search box:
Use the Cited by link at the bottom of the article's entry:
Notice that the example "source" article above was published in 1995. See an annotated image of the Cited by results--all more recent scholarship than the original article.
Links to Google Scholar throughout the library's web pages are specially coded to tie in with our owned and licensed collections and to Interlibrary Loan when necessary, via the Find it at WOU link. Or, rather than hunting down the link every time, you can setting your Google Scholar preferences to connect with the library:
Simply using the scholar.google.com address without setting your preferences will cut you off from library access.