On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Gavin Carr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just had a friend ask me whether there's anything in the free software > world for academic research / writing i.e. tracking bibliographic info, > citations, quotes etc., and then collating them into a written product. > He's used a commercial Windows product called Nota Bene before: > > http://www.notabene.com/product_tour_overview1.html > > Sounds like the sort of thing that much be an itch for lots of academics, > but I've not run across anything more specialised like this in the free > software world. > > Any cluesticks? What do you real academics out there use (without wanting > to start an editor and/or word processor war!).
There are a number of tools available to aid research. OpenOffice.org has for a long time had functionality to manage sources and bibliographic entries. Two standalone apps which come to mind are Tomboy[1] and BasKet[2]. For Web-based research, it might make sense to manage sources within the Web browser itself. There are several extensions for Firefox to do this[3], including Zotero[4], Research Buddy[5], and Diigo[6]. [1] http://www.gnome.org/projects/tomboy/ [2] http://basket.kde.org/ [3] https://addons.mozilla.org/search.php?q=research&type=E&app=firefox [4] http://www.zotero.org/ [5] http://researchbuddy.mozdev.org/ [6] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2792/ -- "that's one thing I like about the Microsoft culture - is that we wake up every day thinking about companies like Wang" - Bill Gates, ABC News (USA), 2005-02-16
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