I've always used EndNote. What is the difference between EndNote and Reference Manager? Would RM be preferred for CZ (as I abbreviate Citizendium in own notes).
- Bob On 10/29/06, Anthony Sebastian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sunday, October 29, 2006 > > Dear Mr. Sanger: > > I have participated in the Citizendium forums (as Anthony.Sebastian) and > have suggested in the technical forum consideration of incorporating a > bibliographic database manager (BDM) in Citizendium. I received favorable > responses. Incorporating a BDM, like Reference Manager, Endnote or > Pro-Cite, would greatly assist author/editors in including source-citations > in the text, and in generating reference lists. Most academics I know > depend on the functionality of BDMs. > > Citizendium's BDM would allow authors/editors to cite while they wrote, > automatically generate reference lists, and search of many online database > from outside sources (e.g., Library of Congress, individual university > library catalogs, PubMed, Agricola, LexisNexis Academic). An enormous > number of such databases exist (e.g., see > http://www-sul.stanford.edu/catdb/alldata.html#l), giving author/editors > access to millions of citation-sources for documenting their articles. > Citizendium's BDM would allow easy copying of citation-sources (articles, > books, websites, etc.) from those databases to an article's individual > database. > > Citizendium needs to make it easy for an author/editor to render her article > scholarly and authoritative, to maximize the quality and instructiveness of > the article, to facilitate completing the article, and thus to facilitate > the growth of Citizendium. > > Below, see a letter I composed to the president of Thomson ResearchSoft, > maker of the three major BDMs, urging him to contact you to consider the > possibility of incorporating the functionality of Reference Manager into > Citizendium's writing tools. I would not transmit it without your okay. > You might want to consider a different approach if the BDM idea appeals. > > Sincerely yours, > > Anthony Sebastian, M.D. > Professor of Medicine > UCSF > > > To: President of Thompson ResearchSoft > > Dear Sir: > > You undoubtedly have heard of Wikipedia, the online, user-developed > encyclopedia. The premiere science journal, Nature, gave it high marks in > comparison with Encyclopedia Britannica. > > Now, the originator of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, has started a new "version", > Citizendium, targeting more authoritative articles. See his introductory > essay: http://citizendium.org/essay_shorter.html. > > The start-up team has not incorporated a bibliographic database manager in > their writing tools for authors. That oversight will make it much more > difficult for expert authors to reference their articles comprehensively. > > I believe they should incorporate Reference Manager in Citizendium. I would > expect a mechanism of incorporation that precludes private use of the > program, so that it would have no negative effect on your sales of the > product. Indeed, as users become familiar with the use and advantages of > Reference Manager (e.g., Cite-While-You-Write, internet searching for > sources), they might want to purchase a copy for their own use. In any > event, your company would get a lot of public exposure and free publicity. > > I would urge you to contact Mr. Sanger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and discuss > possibilities. Yours and his technical teams could work out the security > issues. > > Perhaps you would consider donating the product functionality, once you see > the potential of its success in establishing an authoritative, constantly > updated online encyclopedia. > > Anthony Sebastian, M.D. > Professor of Medicine > UCSF > > > > > > > _________________________ > Anthony Sebastian, MD > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [preferred email address] > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Citizendium-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l > -- Robert P. Futrelle Associate Professor Biological Knowledge Laboratory College of Computer and Information Science Northeastern University MS WVH202 360 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA 02115 Office: (617)-373-4239 Fax: (617)-373-5121 http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/futrelle http://www.bionlp.org http://www.diagrams.org _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
