[Air-l] concerns about new biblio programs

[Ellis Godard]

Just a little shout out for Biblioscape, which I've used for almost seven
years. It was more fully featured (inc. integrated notes, tasks, et al.)
when I hopped on board, though Endnote may have caught up. Also, at least at
the time, it seemed more intuitive and customizable.

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> [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Alex Halavais
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 2:20 PM
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> Subject: Re: [Air-l] concerns about new biblio programs
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> 
> I have been using Endnote off and on for six or seven years. 
> It was never that great, but bibliographic management is one 
> of those applications that often has lock-in, and Endnote is 
> not an exception here. Endnote does allow exporting and 
> importing in a number of formats, though (and I haven't tried 
> this lately), it doesn't make the process easy.
> 
> If you are going for staying power, and interoperability, it 
> strikes me that any system that can import and export to 
> BibTeX should work fine. In other words, the only systems you 
> really have to be wary of are those that keep your data in a 
> proprietary format, and it strikes me that open source 
> products are less likely to go that route than many 
> proprietary systems. Like with email clients, the danger of 
> lock-in has more to do with how open the record system is 
> than it does with how open the application itself is.
> 
> - Alex
> 
> 
> On 10/24/06, Barry Wellman <wellman at chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:
> > I'm a little concerned about people getting involved in 
> bibliographic 
> > programs which might not be supported in a few years, Open 
> Source or 
> > not.
> >
> > Our investment in building our bibliographies tend to cumulate.
> >
> > That's why I stick with Endnote, despite its propietary 
> nature. Even 
> > after being bought by ISI, it seems to have staying power. 
> And with my 
> > 16K items in my bibliography, I'd hate to have to re-enter.
> >
> > Or am I missing something?
> >
> > Cheers, Barry Wellman  
> > 
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