We are pleased to announce that the bibliography section of the Society website has been entirely reworked and considerably augmented, combining elements from several existing ressources.
The navigation menu on the right-hand-side of the website shows the various categories and thus lets you access bibliographies on various areas of research. The really fundamental changes are however “under the hood”: what looks like a static bibliography, an ordinary list, is actually a constantly updated feed from a shared bibliography established and hosted by the open-source and free bibliography tool Zotero.
How to use this new bibliography?
As a reference tool
The bibliography section of the Society website always displays the current state of the group bibliography as a live feed from the database, sorted by sections. This makes it a useful tool, for society members looking for references on a specific subject, but also as a starting point to give to students embarking on research on the First World War.
The group bibliography is also accessible via its page on the Zotero website where you can search across the entire content and filter columns by author or title.
Zotero users can join the group bibliography on the Zotero website by simply clicking on the “Join group” button (you need to be logged in on the website). When you next synchronise your Zotero database, the entire group bibliography with its subcategories will appear in the groups section of your own Zotero database. You can then use the functions of Zotero you are used to : (advanced) search options, editing bibliographies in any given citation style, citing references as you write, but also dragging references (or whole collections) into your own database (“My library”) for annotation or adding files of your own.
In order to keep up with new publications
As the editors add references to the group bibliography when they see them appear, you can use this bibliography to keep up with new publications.
There are several options :
If you already use a reader for RSS-feeds, such as Google Reader, you can add the RSS-feed for the group bibliography (click on the icon).
If you use Twitter, you can choose to follow the group bibliography’s Twitter account, @FWWbib- The Society also has a Facebook page which receives notifications of all new entries to the bibliography.
- We will also be testing a monthly summary of new publications which we will distribute via the Society mailinglist
How to contribute to this bibliography?
This bibliography will only become a truly useful tool for all Society members if it is constantly updated. We have set up a dedicated page where all users can submit one-off references or, if they are Zotero users, leave their details to join the editorial team which has editing privileges in the Zotero group and can thus add references directly.