[AISLE-Share] EasyBib alternatives?
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Answering my own question, but I just found CiteFast. This looks exactly
like what we need. Has anybody else used it before?
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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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Geneseo Middle School (309) 945-0524
Geneseo High School (309) 945-0316
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