Reference management

Posted by subscriber on 11/1/2005
subscriber 11/1/2005 9:54 am
Wojciech, here's what I'm using now: ...

Daly, many thanks for your reply! I have found some familiar names in it (Ultra Recall, first of all), and some new hints (Atlantis instead of Word? - I think I must look at it immediately!). There is one more think I would like to ask: what do you use for reference management?

If I remember correctly, some time ago you were very enthusiastic about Scholar's Aid, you even created Yahoo group devoted to this 'reference processor' (please forgive me if it was not you...), which, NB, disappeared recently. Do you still use it? I loved it once but then became discouraged by its lack of development and poor contact with the developer.

Wojciech
daly_de_gagne 11/1/2005 10:20 am
Actually, it was a friend of mine who started the Scholar's Aid Yahoo group; he used my computder some of the time. I found the program buggy, and that the support from the developer was eratic. I think the concept is good.

Similarly with Nota Bene. I bought NB, and was learning to use it, but found there were just too many things that could go wrong. A reading of recent posts to the NB group make that clear. I think it is taking longer than first envisioned for the new version of NB to come out of beta.

I have Biblioscape, which I am gradually learning to use. Biblioscape has a notes module which, I understand from Paul Chem, is going to be enhanced and further integrated with the references.

In the meantime, I am keeping biblio references in InfoHandler.

Incidentally, Star Office's recently released new version has a bibliographic data base; I have not explored it in any depth.

Daly
pma 11/1/2005 3:46 pm
I tried Scholar's Aid recently, and was amazed by it's approach. However, within very short time I ran into some really annoying bugs, especially related to the keyword module. So until a new release might come, it's not an option for me. It's a great concept, though.

Peter.