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Mission Project: Paperpile

Introduction

Organizing Your Research

When working on projects requiring research it's important to stay organized. Using Paperpile helps you to:

  1. Know where your articles, websites, and information are located so you can find them when you need them
  2. Easily pull information from your sources by highlighting
  3. Have a place to put your paraphrasing
  4. Create accurate citations for your parenthetical citations and bibliographies, in order to give proper credit and be a scholarly researcher.

Paperpile Step-by-Step

Follow these steps to get set up with Paperpile:

Account
  • Go to paperpile.com
  • Navigate to the SIGN IN tab top right
    • Follow the steps to sign in with your amersol account.
Extension
Add-On
  • From any Google Doc, click Add-ons 
  • Add Paperpile
Google Drive Sync
  • Open Settings by clicking the arrow next to your initial in the top right corner and choosing "Settings".
  • Under "My account", toggle to allow access to Google Drive and then follow the login instructions.
Citation Style
  • Open Settings by clicking the arrow next to your initial in the top right corner and choosing "Settings".
  • Click on Citation Styles
  • Choose Modern Language Association 9th edition
Organize your Paperpile
  • Add a folder for each project/assignment you are collecting sources for.

Citation Guides

Paperpile on YouTube

Click here for the FDR Library Paperpile Playlist

Tutorial - Setting up Your Paperpile Account

 

 

Paperpile - Syncing with Google

Paperpile - Settings

Paperpile - Creating Folders

Paperpile - Adding Articles to Your Library

 

 

Paperpile - PDF Viewer - Highlighting and Annotating

 

 

Paperpile - Citing while writing in a Google Document

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