[Xmca-l] Re: Reference data bases

[Greg Thompson]

Oh, and all three of the ones I mentioned have the ability to easily
cite-while-you-write and to automatically create bibliographies.

Martin, do you have any thoughts for why BookEnds over Endnote?
-greg

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Greg Thompson <greg.a.thompson@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Just talking this over with my students yesterday.
>
> Endnote is probably the most common utility. Here is a link:
> http://endnote.com/product-details
> Intro and training videos for endnote can be found here:
> https://www.youtube.com/user/EndNoteTraining
>
> Mendeley has a very friendly interface for reading and marking up pdf's.
> You can store pdf's on your device or you can store them in the cloud for a
> monthly fee.
> http://www.mendeley.com/
>
> Zotero is, I think, particularly easy to use if you are just looking for
> an easy way to cite-while-you-write (the others have this capability too),
> but you have to use Mozilla in order to use it:
> https://www.zotero.org/
>
> There are other more stripped-down versions like Refworks, but for what
> you want to do I'm guessing that Endnote is probably what you want. It also
> looks like X7 version has cloud sharing too so you can store your entire
> library in the cloud and access it anywhere and even share it with up to 12
> people! Mike, since you are a man on the move, I think you could really
> take advantage of that...
>
> -greg
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:30 AM, mike cole <mcole@ucsd.edu> wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues  -  In working through a recent review paper, I began to
>> experience severe difficulties in keeping track of pdfs in connection with
>> the refs.  Are there any recommendations among you for a reliable, pretty
>> large (able to take several thousand refs/pdfs)
>> utility that a non-adept could use effectively? I imagine others might
>> have
>> a similar question.... or will have soon enough!
>>
>> Thanks for any help on this.
>>
>> mike
>>
>> --
>> It is the dilemma of psychology to deal with a natural science as an
>> object
>> that creates history. Ernst Boesch.
>>
>
>
>
> --
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> Assistant Professor
> Department of Anthropology
> 880 Spencer W. Kimball Tower
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Department of Anthropology
880 Spencer W. Kimball Tower
Brigham Young University
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