Keeping Track of Your Research Information Using Noodletools

Keeping Track of Your Research Information Using Noodletools

Humanities 2013-4

Keeping Track of Your Research Information Using NoodleTools

NOTE: When using NoodleTools, it is recommended that you use Safari for your web browser instead of Firefox.

How To Use NoodleBib to Maintain a Research Paper Bibliography

  1. Go to the UCLS Rowley Library webpage and click on “NoodleTools.”
  2. Log into NoodleTools with your username and password. (You may need to visit the library to retrieve your password or revalidate your account.)
  3. If you have not yet started a bibliography for the research paper, click on “Create a New Project” (in the upper right side of the screen)
  4. Select “MLA Junior” list style and then give your list a name in the Description field. Since you’ll probably use NoodleTools again the future it would be good to give your list a specific name with your research topic (Ex.- Last Name Wounded Knee Research).
  5. Then click on “Create Project.”
  6. To add a source to your bibliography, on your project dashboard, look to the left—under "Components," click on the circle that says "Works Cited."
  7. At the top-left side of the page, choose the type of citation you’d like to make from the drop-down menu and then click on “Create Citation.”
  8. Fill in the necessary information for each field and at the end click “Submit.”

How to Print Your Bibliography or Works Cited List

Printing with NoodleTools can be a bit tricky. If you run into trouble, ask your teachers or a classmate for help.

  1. First, select the list you wish to print by choosing the project you are working on and then under "Components" click on the circle that says "Works Cited."
  2. From the home page of your list, select the "Print/Export" button (left side of screen).
  3. On the resulting drop-down menu, select "Print/Export to Word." This will generate a file with an .rtf extension. Open this file.
  4. Go to the "Format" menu at the top of your desktop, select "Text," then "Align Right." Then add your name and the date.
  5. If necessary (depending on the type of document you are creating) switch the title from "Works Cited" to "Working Bibliography."
  6. At the top of the desktop, select the "File" menu, then "print."

How to Share YourLists and Notecards with Your Humanities Teacher (*You only have to do this once)

***You will need to link your notecards to your humanities teacher’s class list so your teacher can see the progress you are making throughout your research.

  1. Go to the "Dashboard" for your research paper Project.
  • Two interesting things to note are that on your dashboard you can type in your research questions and your thesis statement as a reminder for how you will focus your research.
  1. In the "Sharing and Collaborating" box, find the word "Sharing" and click on the "Share project link with a teacher's drop box" link.
  2. Type your name and class period (3-4 or 7-8) where it says “My Name.”
  3. Where it says “Assignment Drop Box” you must type in your class name just as you see it on this paper.

-If you are in Mr. Nekrosius's 3-4 class type: NEKROSIUS 34 2013

-If you are in Mr. Nekrosius's 7-8 class type: NEKROSIUS 78 2013

  1. Put in your first and last name.
  2. Then click on “Share Project.”

How to Use NoodleTools to Make Notecards

  1. Click on “Notecards” from the toolbar at the top of the page.
  2. Click on “New Notecard.”
  3. Give your notecard a title that describes what your notecard is about.
  4. Choose the source where the information on your notecard is coming from. [Note: If you did not make a bibliography card for the source it will not appear in the source list. You must make a bibliography card for the source before you make a notecard.]
  5. On the "Pages" line, type in the page numbers from which you are making this notecard.
  6. If you want, you can “tag” this notecard. The “tag” suggests a larger category to which this notecard might belong (Ex.- If I were making a notecard about the Lakota Sioux Ghost Dance, I might tag it “Reasons for conflict”).
  7. Decide what type of notecard you want to make: a direct quote or a paraphrase.
  8. If you want to make a note to yourself about this information, you can write it in “My ideas.”
  9. The click on “Save."
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