Thank you to all of you who have been providing us at SourceAid with an overwhelming positive response to our new products and services. The feedback we have received from our Cite it Right customers has been testament to the handbook's ease of use for writers who cite their sources manually. Our premier web based citation program, Citation Builder Pro, has been met with similar enthusiasm by students, researchers, and universities.

If you subscribe to Citation Builder, SourceAid's free citation program, we welcome you to forward us your thoughts about its aesthetics, ease of use, and your wish list. We are always looking to improve Citation Builder to enhance your research experience, but keep in mind that you can make citing sources more enjoyable for yourself when you upgrade to a Citation Builder Pro subscription.

Read on to learn how to make better use of two research tools with which you are probably already at least somewhat familiar, Google's search engine and citation projects.

Better Understanding Google's Tools
By Sarah Keller, English Team Director

SourceAid knows how important internet research is to the modern researcher students and teachers alike would be lost without internet databases and search engines to aid them in their academic pursuits and everyday questions. "I'll Google it," is a commonplace expression that hints at how accustomed we are to getting information when we want it, to satiate an idle curiosity or to do intensive research.

Google is, without a doubt, one of the most used search engines in the world today. It is often the first website people turn to when they want to find information the blank search box and our computer's cursor blinking within it almost seems like a portal to a world of seemingly limitless information; all we have to do is enter our query or keywords, click, and watch the answers to our question materialize in a long list of relevant websites. For most people, that is their entire Google experience typing a few words into Google's search box on its homepage at www.google.com. But Google offers so much more.

SourceAid wants to draw students' attention to the links above Google's main search box that typically go unnoticed. Above your blinking cursor, you will notice the hot words, "Images, Groups, News, Froogle, Local, More". We encourage readers of this newsletter to play around with these options. Each represents a specified Google search engine that can narrow a search and help researchers find exactly what they are looking for. If you're looking for images because you want to enhance an oral presentation with a handout or display, Google Images can scour the Internet for those perfect pictures you had in mind. Google Groups can connect you to online discussion groups about your topic, groups that are open for all Internet users to join or peruse. Google News lets you view the top news stories of the day both at home and abroad, and Google Local provides up-to-date maps of towns and cities alongside local commercial phone listings. If you click the "More" option above the Google search box, you will see that Google offers a Book Search option, a Blog Search, and Scholar, Video, Finance, and University Searches, all of which are helpful to a student researcher.

SourceAid strongly believes that the success of student researchers lies partly in making their making the best of the resources available to them. Undoubtedly, Google is one of the best resources of the modern age. This month, we urge everyone to get to know Google a little better, to explore the various search options, and look beyond the blank box of Google's homepage. We think you'll be happy with what you discover.

Understanding Ethical Research Efficiency with a Look at Citation Projects
By Julia Johns, SVP of Development

This article briefly discusses how you can benefit from research resources, such as citation projects, and also includes advice for seeking research assistance.

Responsible Research
Part of being a responsible researcher is learning to fully utilize the resources that help you with the research process. When you take advantage of resources that help you to be more efficient, then you will have more energy to thoughtfully contemplate the facts and ideas presented in your research sources.

Knowing Your Resources Fully
You cannot use a resource effectively if you do not know its functions and how it works. Taking a moment to read about a resource before you begin trying to use it increases your ability to reap its benefits. To begin taking better advantage of citation projects, simply review the following information before creating your next bibliography.

Citation project
ci-ta-tion proj-ect
Noun

A file that you save online in a SourceAid premier membership account that contains your bibliographies, footnotes, and endnotes for a particular project; enables you to:

1. Easily access and modify your references throughout the research process
2. Efficiently find the reference list that you need from among other reference lists that you have previously created
3. Refer to references used in past research projects
4. Instantly combine multiple reference lists with proper formatting

Below is a view of a SourceAid citation project organizer. Clicking the pencil edits a project in SourceAid Citation Builder and clicking the red X deletes a project.

Project Name	Style	Date Modified
Journalism	MLA	1/31/2006 3:33:00 PM
IDCCQ1B	MLA	6/23/2005 2:08:00 PM
IDCCQB1	MLA	3/26/2005 7:54:00 PM

Precautionary Advice on Seeking Research Help
While it is good to be enthusiastic about getting help with your research, be cautious when selecting your resources. Remember to draw on research help that is ethical, or "in accordance with the accepted principles of right and wrong that govern the conduct of a profession," (Dictionary.com, 2006). Although using research resources that promote buying others' work to present as your own may appear to increase your efficiency, such resources also decrease your credibility and reveal irresponsibility. Similarly, while it is good to get feedback about your work from other people, please be careful not to incorporate their ideas as your own. The best research resources help you to learn and produce original work.