We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know … but We Can Learn!

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Recently I gave a high level presentation and overview of Library Services and focused attention on three major talking points – Content/Website, Services, and reaching Library Staff.  I didn’t want to overload the audience because I really wanted them to walk away with at least one piece of information they felt was relevant to them. 

When I give this type of presentation, I often wonder when I start talking about various resources available through the Library – what is/are their current “GoTo” info resource(s) they count on when conducting research?  Well, this time around, I decided to ask!  The target audience was incoming graduate students and after going around the table to find out what resources they use, PubMed and Wikipedia rose to the top.  Continue reading →

Resource Highlights: Word/Phrase Frequency Counter

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Whether preparing a manuscript for publication, writing a poster abstract for a conference, or even writing an e-mail, redundancy is something most of us want to avoid. WriteWords is an online tool that analyzes a set of text and counts the word frequency or phrase frequency.

Word Frequency – 

  1. Enter a set of text
  2. Click SUBMIT
  3. View list of all words in the text with the number of times each appears (ranked highest frequency to lowest)

Phrase Frequency – 

  1. Enter set of text
  2. Choose max number of words in a phrase to be retrieved (from 1-10)
  3. Click SUBMIT
  4. View a list of all phrases in the text with the number of times each appears (ranked from highest frequency to lowest)