[AISLE-Share] EasyBib alternatives?

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Have you tried KnightCite?

https://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/

Barb Miller
Learning Resource Center Facilitator
Troy Community Consolidated School District 30C

*Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination *
- Sidney Sheldon

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 1:08 PM, Email list for the Association of Illinois
School Library Educators <aisle at list.railslibraries.info> wrote:

> I have been teaching students to use EasyBib for years as a way to
> identify and learn MLA citations.  I found that the assistance in knowing
> what to identify in the sources and eliminating the time-consuming
> formatting was beneficial.  I even paid for the subscription before it
> became EasyBib EDU.  Now that they ended the EasyBib EDU accounts, all of
> our school gMails cannot use EasyBib, even the free version.
>
> I am looking for suggestions of alternative citation tools.    I can tell
> you that *I have already tried* the following options:
>
>    - *BibMe, Citation Machine, CiteThisForMe*  are all Chegg services
>    (like EasyBib) so the difficulties in "free" registration after creating
>    two citations are not worth the hassle--forcing registration for premium
>    services in order to "complete" registration, the inability to get the
>    ad-blocker to stop popping up on Chrome, etc.  My browser keeps getting
>    caught in an endless loop.  Has anybody else figured out how to get out of
>    this loop?
>    - I tried the *EasyBib Add-on* for Google Docs.  While it does do a
>    quick citation for website and book, if there are any errors in the
>    auto-cite, you cannot fix it.  Even if you fix it on the doc, it returns to
>    the incorrect entry every time you add a new reference to your bibliography
>    manager.  If I add a manual citation from our database to my doc, it also
>    disappears when you add a new source to the EasyBib manager.  Thus,
>    students would still have to have multiple documents open to cut and paste
>    citations back and forth.
>    - I looked at *EndNote, ProCite, Reference Manager, and RefWorks,*
>    since our Gale databases will export to those services, but they all appear
>    to be much more geared to graduate students or researchers, not junior high
>    and high school students.
>    - I did a preview of *NoodleTools* last spring, but there were way
>    more writing tools than we are interested in.  We just want a citation
>    service.
>    - We already use *Purdue OWL and MLA*'s site for verifying citations,
>    we are just looking for something that assists with pulling the data in
>    auto-cite.
>
> TIA,
> --
> Jeanne Brucher
> Teacher-Librarian
> jbrucher at geneseoschools.org
> Geneseo Middle School (309) 945-0524
> Geneseo High School (309) 945-0316
>
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