I've used Jabref for my thesis bibliography, and it's mostly been fine.
I've used it from both Windows and Fedora Core 4. The sorting and
searching work well, and I like the way it makes your DOIs and PDFs
click-through-able with icons in the main list. I like how it integrates
with LyX via the LyX pipe, and I like that it runs on both windows and
linux.
I have had some fairly bad problems with non-ASCII characters though --
don't know what the right way to put in umlauts and so on is, via
JabRef. Also, It can be a bit slow at times, for some reason.
Unfortunately there is no nicely-packaged version of JabRef for Fedora
at this stage, although I've had a bit of discussion about this over at
http://jpackage.org. This makes it a little harder for new users to try.
I tried some little KDE and GNOME-based bibtex editors but nothing
seemed to be anywhere near as mature as JabRef. I haven't tried the
other ones you mentioned.
Cheers
JP
Tim Vaughan wrote:
Hi,
I plan on using Bibtex to handle the citations needed for a series of
essays I am writing. I have come across two Java GUIs, JabRef and
Bib-it and an OS X one, BibDesk.
I'm happy to try them all out but I was wondering if people had
experience with these programs or others and which they would
recommend?
Tim
