Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:41:03 -0500

We launched a fresh round of updates yesterday! Take a look:

Autocite books by title, author, keywords, or ISBN: You no longer need to remember a book’s ISBN number to cite a book - now you can search by its title or any other keyword to find it! We’ve partnered with the OCLC and its library database, WorldCat, and are searching over 60 million books. Take a look at WorldCat, it’s a great way to find where books are in your local libraries.

MLA capitalization: It’s one of the hairier aspects of bibliographical formatting - how do you know what to capitalize and what not to? Now, EasyBib has made that much easier! We automatically lowercase words that should be (prepositions, articles, coordinating conjunctions, etc.), and proper case the rest.

Import third party software and database citations: This has been by far the most requested feature from universities and graduate students. Now, files from any database that exports to EndNote or BibTex (pretty much all of them), or any reference manager that exports to either of those formats (EndNote, Zotero, Refworks), can be imported into EasyBib. This is a premium feature, meaning you’ll need to subscribe to MyBib Pro or School Edition to have access to it.

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:48:51 -0500

One of the most popular features on EasyBib is our ISBN autocite function that allows Bibbers to automatically cite books simply by entering its assigned 10 or 13 digit ISBN number.

As part of our never ending battle to bring you the best citation management tool around, we’re extremely proud to announce that our ISBN database has just gone through a major upgrade.

Over the past three days we’ve added roughly 2,440,000 titles to our database, bringing the tally to an astonishing 22,450,000 supported ISBN numbers.

ISBN autocite is available free of charge for all EasyBib users. Looking to give back to EasyBib? Help us spread the word! Tell a friend, teacher, anyone that will listen! We truly appreciate all the support.

Keep Bibbin,

The EasyBib Team

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:38:10 -0500

Although we certainly appreciate the various collegiate “Rites of passage”: battling hordes of students, rotting in endless lines, and emptying your checking account for the semesters required reading was never high on the priority list.

That’s why we’re happy to announce our partnership with BookRenter.com. With a little forward thinking you can easily save over 75% off retail textbook prices.

Why buy when you can rent? With BookRenter you search for your ISBN or book titles, just as you do on EasyBib, select the period you want to rent the book for (month, quarter, semester, etc), and you’re all set.

Right now they’re offering free shipping both ways, and 2-day shipping as low as $6.98. The next time you need textbooks, be sure to check them out. They claim they can save you over $500 a year!

Also, we’d love to hear about your experience with BookRenter, please
shoot us an email and let us know how it went!

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:27:00 -0500

Hi everyone,

We’re happy to announce a round of new updates to EasyBib.

Citation management: This has been the most requested feature of EasyBib. Now users can copy citations into different bibliographies, combine lists together, or export specific citations directly to Word or HTML. We have also made it possible to edit citations across multiple lists and view all the references you’ve created from one screen.

IP authentication: When we launched our School Edition product in August, a lot of schools requested that we provide access via IP authentication. Now if a school provides us with their IP ranges, we can provide premium services to their students automatically, without any registration or login necessary. Learn more about School Edition here.

Citation help: Many students often have questions about articles they find online and what specific source types they should use to cite them. We’ve added fields to our Web site and database forms that now help point users in the right direction.

Minor bug fixes: Speed improvements, more robust error reporting, and so on.

Happy New Year everyone!

Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:06:44 -0500

Hope everyone is having a great break. Many of the teachers and librarians that visit our site have suggested that we post materials to help students research and write more effectively.

One of our visitors, a librarian hailing from Northern Kentucky University, passed this link along. Students from NKU’s film department made a number of videos that discuss plagiarism, copyright laws, and intellectual property issues. We think every student should be aware of plagiarism and know how to avoid it.

As a service that formats citations appropriately, EasyBib encourages everyone to be aware of plagiarism. You can always download our own PDF guides on how to cite sources properly.

Happy holidays and have a great new year everyone!

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