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Posted by quant
Jun 21, 2007 at 02:25 PM
Hi Tom,
I used ScholarAid before as well, later Jabref for managing my bibtex bibliographic database.
I managed to put my whole library to UltraRecall, because it offer attributes, so I reproduced some part of bibtex by creating templates for book, article, ...
It works perfectly, I can add notes, links to pdf source files, links to other works, citations, ...
With “saved search” feature, I can easily search for book, authors, keywords, ... and it perfectly links with my other research notes because I can use internal links to my library
Posted by Tom Colvin
Jun 22, 2007 at 02:36 PM
QUANT: Gosh, that sounds like a lot of work, building a specialized database out of pre-existing bibliographic records!
The new Biblioscape [now up to 7.2] seems to do all the things you describe. There’s a special field ATTACHMENTS, in which one can put links and URL’s to files on your hard-disk or out on the internet. One can past files right into the reference record in the NOTES field. The program also indexes every word, whether in the Reference section or the Notes section, facilitating recovery of data via search. There’s built-in facility to browse the internet and grab references.
There’s an online forum within which program documentation is kept. One can “subscribe” to new comments [by category even] and receive email notice with link to new comments, a good way to monitor ongoing discussion about the program.
I’m curious? What led you away from Scholar’s Aid?
Posted by quant
Jun 22, 2007 at 05:38 PM
Tom Colvin wrote:
>QUANT: Gosh, that sounds like a lot of work, building a specialized database out of
>pre-existing bibliographic records!
some work was needed, but not much. In UltraRecall, I created few templates for book, journal, ...
Then I simply exported my existing database to CSV, and imported to UltraRecall where I could assign the relevant attributes.
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>The new Biblioscape [now up to 7.2] seems to
>do all the things you describe. There’s a special field ATTACHMENTS, in which one can
>put links and URL’s to files on your hard-disk or out on the internet. One can past files
>right into the reference record in the NOTES field. The program also indexes every
>word, whether in the Reference section or the Notes section, facilitating recovery
>of data via search. There’s built-in facility to browse the internet and grab
>references.
this is the only thing that I’m missing, the automatic references and insertion into database from website.
>I’m curious? What led you away from Scholar’s Aid?
One reason was that I needed bibtex style format for my bibliography which Scholar’s Air didn’t supported.
But the main reason I think is fact that I want to use one program for my research notes, my bibliography and my time organizer. I had to do some workaround with bibliography, but now I have everything indexed in one place ...