[Xmca-l] Re: Reference data bases

[rjsp2]

Scrivener might do the job. I have played with it a little - you get a
good sized free trial period.

There is, in my view, an interesting gap in the market here. A lot of
these issues could be overcome with a good internal tagging system such
as that used on web based facilities like Diigo, and blog software. For
some reason Windows does not seem to lend itself to tagging. MS seem to
have no interest in developing it, and third party offerings like XY
Explorer, are quite clunky.

Rob

On 29/01/2015 17:44, Peter Smagorinsky wrote:
> My university provides Endnote for free, so you might want to check your institution's site license package for what's available. p
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu [mailto:xmca-l-bounces@mailman.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Greg Thompson
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 11:52 AM
> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: Reference data bases
>
> 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.
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Gregory A. Thompson, Ph.D.
>> Assistant Professor
>> Department of Anthropology
>> 880 Spencer W. Kimball Tower
>> Brigham Young University
>> Provo, UT 84602
>> http://byu.academia.edu/GregoryThompson
>>
>
>

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