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Delicious for pdfs?

furious — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:55:40 -0800

How can I organize offline pdfs on windows so that they're easy to find offline using a standard browser? In a perfect world, it would be like delicious, but for pdfs. Tags, sortable by tags, compact display. Endnote and Wordpress are the available tools. This is on Windows. There is an offline wordpress blog. There are a bunch of pdfs in folders on a shared drive. I wish I could have something like delicious, where anybody who has access to the shared drive could look for the pdfs by putting in tags. The listings brought up would be linked to the pdf files.

So with Endnote, Wordpress and a bunch of pdf files, how can I create an index that allows the pdfs to be searched for easily, by subject, tag, author, etc using a standard browser? A single page could be created on the wordpress blog with a list of all the pdfs, with keywords. A control+f search could be used to locate useful pdfs. But that would not be sortable. The wordpress blog already has entries, so entering each pdf as a separate entry would not work - tags would give you things other than links to the pdf files. An additional wordpress blog solely for the pdfs is not an option.

Example: person x says "I wonder about salamanders' tongues." Uses Internet Explorer or Firefox to go to the page. Tag search-animals. Nothing. Tag search amphibians. Tag search amphibians+anatomy. Brings up 5 locally linked pdfs. Person x wants more- tag search for salamander brings up 30 results. To get just recent results, tag search salamander+2009.

If there were some way to get some code from delicious, put it into a single page on the wordpress blog and have it mimic delicious, that would be perfect.

Any ideas? The process of entering in all the information will be arduous and time consuming, so I want the final product to be worth it.

Why is EndNote so bad at finding the full text of references?

one_bean — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:45:31 -0800

When I click on "Find Full Text" in EndNote, it only finds about 1/4 of the references. Is there a way to increase the number of journals it can find? Unfortunately it doesn't seem to know of Science, or Ecology, or Evolution. Is this just a Thomson-Reuters contractual thing?

Endnote in Outlook 2007

cashman — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:12:25 -0800

Is there a way to use Endnote within Outlook 2007? In Outlook 2003, if you had Word set as your email editor, you could use Endnote within Outlook. Is there a way to do this in Outlook 2007?

How do I search and find non-electronic papers!

kechi — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:48:53 -0800

How do you search and find academic papers that are in a filing cabinet? I am looking for something that runs on a mac (similar to endnote but better) that I can use to keep track of and search the academic papers I have stored in a filing cabinet in my office. For pdf's I use spotlight to search and skim to anotate but I no longer have any system to deal with papers that I only have in hard copy. Does anyone have any suggestions? How do other people do this?

Unlock the secrets of citations!

boubelium — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:57:18 -0800

What's all this fuss about bibliography software? I have never used Endnote, Reworks, or any other bibliography organizing software before. However, I know it seems to be popular based on the number of questions here mentioning it and the seemingly perpetual training seminars I have seen at University libraries... but I don't see its attractiveness and I wonder if someone could explain its advantages? I don't want to be on the outs with academic technology or sound like a curmudgeon (I don't yet have a lawn for people to stay off of).

Little background: I am a history grad student and have always managed my bibliographies in a spreadsheet. When I get a new source, say a book, I just flip to the title/copyright page and write out the citation in my excel master bibliography sheet (Chicago Style). This takes about 10 seconds.

So, outside of being able to easily convert from one citation style to another, what neat things can these bibliography builders do? Or is this software just for undergrads who are confused by/or juggling different styles of citations?

Oh, and bonus points for any humanities or historian friends who can share how I can use them.

Software for long documents

bingoes — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:42:09 -0800

What Windows software should I use to write a ~70k word public health thesis? I've read through all previous posts on LyX and LaTeX and the dangers of Word with long documents and have looked into other available programs (eg OpenOffice), but I'm still having a hard time deciding what will be best for my situation.

Everyone in my department, including my supervisors, use Word and they like to review my work using "track changes".

I won't need to include any formulas or chemical structures, just a stack of tables, graphs, pictures and the odd Greek letter.

I'm also quite invested in my scrupulously maintained EndNote database. I have many custom fields and pdf's linked for every entry.

I am hoping there is something out there that's stable, and straightforward, with powerful integration capabilities?

What is the easiest way to index pre-existing bibliographies?

anotherpanacea — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 15:08:52 -0800

Bibliographic software newbie question: given an enormous backlog of hand-written bibliographies, what's my best bet for producing a database and integrating it with a book manuscript? I'd like to be able to push a button and change citation styles. No arduous data-entry, please. I've never taken the leap into Endnote et al, but I have some limited experience with Word 2007's reference panel. Now, it seems, I need to change, and fast. I'd like to be able to push a button and change inline citation styles. So:

1. What is the easiest way to index pre-existing bibliographies? Let's say I have fifteen pages of references saved as a Word document. Is there a citation sniffer that'll pull out the entries or some other import function I can use?

2. What software should I use? Is Word's new stuff robust enough? (I'm in the humanities.)

Which reference management software should I use?

ChasFile — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:26:23 -0800

Which reference management software package should I use? What is basically the most common / de facto standard, if there is one? Is it helpful to use the standard, in terms of sharing resources? Or does it not matter so much?

What is the most useful / flexible / import-exportable? What is the most likely to not go bankrupt in 10 years after I've put in an irreproducible amount of work into building my database?

Which do you like best, and why? Which is the easiest to work with? Which integrates best with Word? Which integrates with (La)Tex/BibTex?

Is there anything else worth knowing?

(I'm on a PC, but often use Macs at work and school. I have access to EndNore, RefWorks, and of course the open source BibTex options, but am open to purchasing anything reasonably priced.)

APA --> EndNote (ugh!)

Squid Voltaire — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:25:59 -0800

I have a bunch of APA-style refs in a huge (580+ page) MS Word document. How do I get them all into EndNote? This recent post made me decide to go ahead and ask this question, even though I have little hope.

Over the past ten years or so my boss has built up a hefty collection of journal / book references, and they have all been typed into MS Word by folks like me, over the years, and occasionally by work-study undergrads. I want to import them into EndNote, but before I do things the Really Hard Way, I want to know if there's an easier way.

Smith, J., Johnson, D., L., & Bikkle, R. (1998). What I did on my summer vacation. Cognitive Science, 9, 231-292.

Event if all of my entries were perfectly formatted (and they are not) I'm still not sure how to convert them.

My best idea so far is to write a PHP script that parses them, somehow, and determines if they are books or journals or unpublished manuscripts. Then it would spit out a tab-delimited list of refs, along with a list of references that were poorly formatted. Then someone would have to go through the first list and make sure that nothing got mangled (which it will) and go through the second list and fix each missing parenthesis by hand. Did I mention that I have around five thousand of these?

It's also possible that this PHP program will just screw things up from the get-go, and I should just have someone enter all of them by hand. I'm hoping, however, that someone out there has a Better Way. Maybe?

Endnote at wit's end

jak68 — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 07:43:38 -0800

Endnote Filter: Could someone explain Endnote to me like I was 10 years old? I just downloaded Endnote X from my school. I went to one of the tutorial classes offered by my college library, and it made absolutely no sense to me. I came out of there, an hour or so later, with absolutely no functional knowledge on how to actually use the damn thing.

Maybe you could just describe how you use it? All I want to do is a) use it within Word to help format my footnotes/find references; b) for extra credit, if the program can do it, I'd like to store various kinds of bibliographies/reading lists on it.

Bibliographic reference management on the web?

dmd — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:55:52 -0800

Is there some "Web 2.0" (by which I mean "well designed", not "shiny and in large type for no good reason) style site or package out there for managing bibliographic references online?

How do I find a reliable person to do some computer work for me?

ikkyu2 — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 14:23:31 -0800

I need some computer work done for me and I'm not sure how to find someone to do it. I have written a 30 page singlespaced Microsoft Word paper, with about 250 EndNote references, and 20 figures, in both Excel and Harvard Graphics.

I need to get it into the format demanded by a major academic journal before I can submit it. The journal wants it; they, and my co-author, are waiting on me. Writing it was hard enough; refactoring it to these standards (of near-camera ready copy, with zillions of font and style guidelines) without breaking the EndNote bits is beyond my computer skills and current reserves of time and energy.

It doesn't need content, copy or style editing; just extensive reformatting (to meet Acta Scandinavica Neurologica's guidelines) and integration of all the figures.

How do I find someone who has real proficiency in these black arts, has all 4 of those software packages available, and can give me a quote and then get this done on a schedule? (and who won't post my opus to the internets or other shadiness.)

How much should I expect something like this to cost? I'm tentatively thinking half a grand or so - is that ridiculous?

I'm in San Francisco.

Making EndNote correctly cite a website?

docgonzo — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 17:37:49 -0800

Is there any way to get EndNote -- yes, yes, I know, a steaming pile of rancid bits of a software app -- to correctly cite a website? Setting reference type to "online multimedia" does not seem to work; setting the URL to the URL of the site doesn't work, either. Maybe it's cause I'm just on deadline but I can't find nothin'. Help?

Wanted: a meta-research search site

stonerose — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:55:04 -0800

Social science research, online indexes, and EndNote. Help? I'm looking for a comprehensive online social science-oriented index that will allow me to quickly and simply export ALL the results of a search to an EndNote compatible file.

To date, I've used Proquest and ISI Web of Knowledge. They're both incredibly cumbersome - with the former, you're only allowed to mark 50 articles at a time, and it takes several tries to get a successful export. With ISI, you need to individually mark each article "click...click...click..." you want exported.