Reason Number 234 to Switch to Firefox

December 22nd, 2004

Thomas N. Burg points to Research Buddy, a Firefox extention that assists students in collecting, storing, and maintaining quotes from content read online. From the site:

“The user finds a quote on a webpage and wants to reference the quote in her paper.”

“The user selects the text of this quote, and, in the right-click menu, selects “Research Buddy” (this step is optional: the page can be referenced without selected text).”

“The plugin opens the main Research Buddy dialog, which allows the user to select which research topic the page should be filed under.”

“The user clicks on “Add to selected topic”, and the reference is saved to the topic. Depending on the preferences, the page (and it’s images) may be saved to the user’s disk.”

Teachers and librarians can use this tool in their work with students on plagerism by assisting the student to correctly cite where the quote comes from. I’m going to install it for a few papers and proposals that I am putting together and see how well it works.

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