Thanks for the detail Puneet! You've convinced me, I'll definitely give Mendeley a try. I'll also pop them a quick email asking whether they've considered allowing users to explicitly define legal status of bibliographic data.
Jonathan On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Mr. Puneet Kishor <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Nov 30, 2009, at 6:01 PM, Jonathan Gray wrote: > >> Finn, Puneet: I've known about Mendeley for a while (via Victor >> Henning) but have yet to investigate. Puneet - does it have good >> export functions, > > Exports to Endnote XML, RIS, and BibTex. > >> and do you know how easy it would be to >> collaboratively edit bibliographies? > > You create a shared biblio, and invite other Mendeley users. Say, you and I > are collaborating on a project, such as co-authoring a paper, and we have > divvied up our work. You invite me to your shared biblio, and I join it. As > I add stuff to the shared collection, it shows up on your Mendeley Desktop, > and vice versa. > > Of course, our Mendeley Desktops sync with our respective web accounts as > well, so all collections are accessible from anywhere. > > It really is very simple. > >> Also I would really want to >> specific that the bibliographic data I contributed was open (ideally >> in the public domain)... > > You can make a biblio data a public collection, and even sync the > attachments (the actual PDFs of the papers/articles) so they reside on your > Mendeley web account, accessible by everyone. > > Puneet. > > > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > -- Jonathan Gray Community Coordinator The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
