Finding information

Keeping track of your sources can be difficult, especially if you're working on a big project or an assignment that relies on a lot of references. Try these recommended tools to keep on top of your notes and all the research material you have found.

You can also check out our guide on notemaking.

You can also save your searches and any items you find within Library Search itself.  

• In Library Search, search on your topic. 
• On the results screen, along the top of the page, click 'Welcome guest.  Sign in to your institution for full access to your library's resources".
• Sign in with your university email and password.
• Next to each search result you will see a bookmark icon Click on it to save that result.
• To the left hand side of the results page you will see My dashboard.  Here you will find your Saved results.
• You can click on Searches to see your session search history.  Click the bookmark icon to save that search. 

Help and training

• Using the Dashboard

Reference management software helps you create, organise and retrieve your references. You can group and tag sources, keep notes, and store PDFs online for easy access. You can even automatically cite your references as you write up your work.  You can choose whichever referencing software you feel most comfortable using but if you're looking for recommendations we would say Zotero is a good one to use.  Zotero is free and has lots of helpful support and guidance.  

Why we love it ♥

• Search across all your references.

• Make and save your own notes about the sources you add.

• Print or save a list of references.

• Insert citations into your document and automatically produce a reference list / bibliography in whatever style you require.

Help and training

• Zotero: reference management software  - LibGuides at London Metropolitan University
• Zotero support and guidance
• Academic Liaison Librarians
• Referencing, academic integrity and avoiding plagiarism - LibGuides at London Metropolitan University

OneNote is a digital notebook.  It's a great way to save and organise your research notes. Log in with your university email address and password.

Why we love it ♥

• All your notes for uni work saved in one place.
• Access your notes whenever and wherever you need them.
• Search across all your notes.
• Add images, files, checklists and even voice notes.
• Save PDFs & documents- and use highlighting and drawing functions to annotate.

Help and training