Give Zotero a try. It has adequate (but not perfect) BibTeX output which
can be cleaned up in jabref easily. Collecting, annotating, and organizing
the database is made easy with tags and associations, and it captures the
pdf directly from the host site and includes DOI, ISSN, ISBN, and loads of
other info. You can also associate any arbitrary file, note, link, to all
records, so it is easy to include many layers of info in one database. The
new collaborative features seem to work, but I have yet to test them in a
serious multi-user environment yet. Even though this sounds like
advertising, I am just a user who has tried loads of other tools over many
years and like this one.
The only slight downside is it slows down firefox on some sites, so I only
use it when I am collecting references.
Happy reading,
David
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:42 AM, Alastair McKinstry
alastair.mckins...@sceal.ie wrote:
On 14 Mar 2009, at 23:28, Bryan Bishop wrote:
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Benda Xu hero...@gmail.com wrote:
I have downloaded a lot of papers from the journals for reading and
reference. Although I tried to develop a naming scheme to organize the
file (mostly PDF format), I run into chaos these days: I forget which is
which before actually open the files one by one.
Yes, I run in to this problem as well. I go on reading sprees of
hundreds of papers. Recently it was something like 200 papers and 150
MB re: microfluidics. BibTeX is nice, but not always a given. Google
Scholar allows you to export citations as you find paper search
results- perhaps it would be possible to write a userscript/javascript
hack that would automatically download the BibTeX citation as you
download a file? This way, you always keep track of information per
download. This is a hack, not a real solution, of course.
Another program to include (is it in squeeze?) is calibre. I use an ebook
reader to read many papers and books;
it keeps its own metadata and book / paper sets: the pdfs are kept in a
filestystem (fine); some synchronisation of
the metadata and papers with a bibtex, etc. citation list would be good.
Another point: DOIs. Most (?) papers these days are labelled with a unique
DOI (see dx.doi.org) . This could be used
as a pointer to the paper(s) and for labelling caches.
- Bryan
http://heybryan.org/
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