[Air-l] Citation Managers - Alternatives to Endnote/CiteULike/... ?

[Lisa Lynch]

I've been pretty pleased with Bookends thus far: I began using it b/c  
I'd heard it was more reliable with Mac.  It's got a fine notes field.

Lisa Lynch

On Mar 20, 2006, at 9:45 AM, Pam Brewer wrote:

> Hello all--
>
> This thread is very interesting to me.  Has anyone simply used Word  
> for
> these purposes?  I realize that it doesn't have the capacity to edit
> citation styles, but it does allow searching, etc.  I am currently  
> working
> on my PhD and have debated whether to use EndNote or other  
> bibliographic
> tools.  Because I was unsure of the advantages (other than the  
> ability to
> edit citation style) and had neither the time nor the money to try  
> different
> software, I've been building my now very large bib in Word.
>
> Best,
> Pam
>
> Pamela Estes Brewer
> Lecturer -- Coordinator, Professional Writing
> Department of English and Philosophy
> Murray State University
> PhD Student in Technical Communication & Rhetoric, Texas Tech  
> University
> 270-762-4719
> fax 270-762-4545
> pam.brewer at murraystate.edu
>
>
> On March 1, 2006, Murray State University will begin moving all its  
> phone
> numbers in the 762 exchange to an 809 exchange. My new numbers will be
> 270-809-4719 (office), and 270-809-4545 (FAX).
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org
> [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Axel Bruns
> Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 11:11 AM
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: [Air-l] Citation Managers - Alternatives to Endnote/ 
> CiteULike/... ?
>
>
> Dear AoIRers,
>
> I'm wondering if any of you can suggest useful alternatives to  
> research
> citation manager tools such as Endnote or CiteULike. My approach to  
> research
> is to store key quotations from a source alongside the bibliographic
> reference, but none of the standard tools I have come across seem  
> to do this
> particularly effectively (e.g. in Endnote, the best available  
> workaround
> appears to be to create an additional field for quotes in the  
> bibliographic
> record, but this is clunky and doesn't work very well with multiple  
> quotes
> stored against the same record).
>
> My preferred workflow would be a two-step process:
>
>
> 1. Create a primary bibliographic record for the source, e.g.
>
> [2] Graham Meikle. _Future Active: Media Activism and the  
> Internet_. New
> York: Routledge, 2002.
>
>
> 2. Create (multiple) quotations as secondary records stored against  
> the
> primary one, e.g.
>
> [2.1] "People who hope to draw attention to issues can use the Net  
> in a host
> of ways, but few are effective without the eventual participation  
> of the
> older media." (5)
>
> [2.2] "One way to measure the success of many of the projects . is  
> to ask
> how effectively they can use the Net to force their cause onto the  
> agenda of
> the mainstream media." (8)
>
> etc.
>
>
> Are there any tools (preferably open source, possibly Web-based)  
> which do
> something along these lines ? Obviously I'm also keen on  
> functionality to
> convert references automatically into a number of referencing  
> styles (MLA,
> APA, etc.).
>
> Failing this, the best alternative I can see is to use a tool such as
> CiteULike for the primary references, and create an additional  
> database
> which stores quotations against the CiteULike references, but this  
> seems
> kludgy at best. Hopefully there's a better solution ?
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated, and if there's any interest  
> I'll post
> a summary of what I find...
>
> -- 
> Dr Axel Bruns                 a.bruns at qut.edu.au - http://snurb.info/
> Media & Communication    Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove, Qld. 4059, Australia
> Creative Industries Faculty              Z2-202, CIP - (07) 3864 5548
> Queensland University of Technology                CRICOS No.: 00213J
>
>
>
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