Health Justice Seminar

You should keep track of the resources you review during your research. At a minimum, you should identify items that appear to be useful. Some sources also suggest keeping a list of items that you reviewed but determined were not useful. This would help ensure that you do not waste time reviewing them again. 

How you keep track of your research is up to you. Below are some organizational tools that you might find useful. 

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Folders

MyHein Is an individual account that you set up. It is free. Having a MyHein account lets you keep bookmarked items in a foldering system. You can also use MyHein to set up alerts. 

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Saving Bookmarks to MyHein

Step 1: Select an item or items. Click on MyHein Options and select MyHein Bookmarks. Save.

Step 2: Log in to MyHein at the top right side of the screen. Select Bookmarks. You will see your bookmarked items, which can be printed, downloaded, etc. 

Zotero is a free citation manager. It allows you to save PDFs, webpages, and more. You can use Zotero to generate Bluebook citations. However, as is true of all citation-generating software, you will need to further refine the citations because they will not always be correct. 

Zotero works best with documents that have DOI numbers (many non-law review articles). It does not work as well with items saved from Westlaw or Lexis. 

To learn more, you can use the University Libraries Guide to Zotero.