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

[Frank Thomas]

I use AskSam for linking bibliographic information and citations, ideas, 
etc. See www.asksam.com . AskSam is a flatform text database. The great 
advantage of AskSam is its reporting tool. It lets you output the 
bibliographic information if the citation fulfils certain conditions, 
for instance, the term internet appears in the same sentence as packet 
switching dating. Even with large databases it's fast.

Compared to EndNote it's far superior in data base handling of ideas, 
notes, any texts. However, you can't insert the bibliographic 
information on the fly which impresses me in EndNote.

AskSam can easily be linked to its own Internet web pages saver, SurfSaver.
It's a commercial product, though.

Regards
- Frank Thomas


Axel Bruns wrote:
> 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...
>
>   


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Dr. Frank Thomas
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