This site is intended to foster an Evidence Base for Assistive Technology (AT) and promote Evidence Based Practice - we propose a number of things to help manage and develop the AT evidence base:

Wouldn’t it be handy if you could easily store papers you find for future reference and could see what other people in the field have found? CiteUlike, an online citation manager, lets you do both these things (and more).

• Find out how to use CiteULike
  • The Assistive Technology group on CiteULike - RSS feed of this group (about RSS)
  • Example CiteULike Library

AT evidence is published in a number of dispirate publications, lots of these journals have online archives, but generally you will find information in them by searching the online paper databases. I also find Google Scholar to be invaluable. To help you, or a colleague, enter the murky world of AT papers, we have compiled a list of Selected AT Papers

• Listing of AT Journals
• Listing of paper databases where you can search for papers (may require AthensLogon)
• Selected AT Papers
• Guidance - Guidance and information on researching / literature searching etc...
  • Go to the British Library - doing this will give you access to the full text of (basically) everything. The staff are also most helpful.
  • Lit Search paper quality guidelines...
  • ?? AT specific evidence stuff?
  • Help complete this secion!!!

If you have information to publish you have a number of options (in a way, depending on the ‘level’ of the information): submit to one of the AT Journals; present at an AT conference; use CiteSeer to publish your paper for free on the internet; and/or add the information to the 'Experience Base' area of this site - you can actually just paste in a BibTex record to cite it (see Adding clever things to your pages).

• Listing of AT Journals
• Using CiteSeer to publish your paper for free on the internet
• Conferences
• 'Experience Base' area of this site

JabRef is a citation management tool that happens to be free and quite good, there are other (paid for) tools too. JabRef uses the BibTex citation format. We suggest using this for storing the results of specific searches - you could then store the BibTex file on the Assistech evidence base.

• Find out how to use JabRef
• The BibTex markup syntax

I have recently found, and will be evaluating, Zetoro - this is another free citation manager - however Zotero is browser based - so has the advantages of CiteULike in being able to get citations from online reference databases. This might make a good companion to CiteULike for the local copy of your citations (although it might get a bit confusing unless you are rigorous). Hopefully, in the future, some of these tools will merge - there is talk on the CiteULike discussion list along this vain, and the founder of CiteULike seems to have recently started on an open-source re-write of the site, which is promising.

• Zetoro home page
• A useful Zetoro demo
• firefox (the browser you need to run it)

Please put other resources that you may have on evidence base in Assistive Technology in this section:

• Link to simon’s presentation on EBP tools... TO ADD

Connotea is an alternative to CiteULike. I prefer CiteULike, and the Assistive Technology group is on this.

— Simon Judge 2006/11/15