I just posted this to my Google+ stream. I don't want to be a shill for a private service (but I guess I'm going to be anyway), but this system [Mendeley <http://www.mendeley.com/>] seems quite impressive. It parses PDFs (and other documents) you drop into it and builds a bibliography for you. It provides a way to annotate the bibliography. I think it also lets you annotate pdf files. It doesn't get them all right, but what it does looks very useful. Besides, it's free. It claims to synchronize across computers besides making your papers accessible through any browser. I don't know if that means downloading to all the synched computers as Dropbox does.
It apparently has investors (see their about us page: http://www.mendeley.com/about-us/) but it's not clear what their business model is. So far, I haven't seen any ads except for themselves. They do apparently sell a "pro" version. The free version has 1GB of storage. Anyone know any more about it? *-- Russ Abbott* *_____________________________________________* *** Professor, Computer Science* * California State University, Los Angeles* * Google voice: 747-*999-5105 Google+: https://plus.google.com/114865618166480775623/ * vita: *http://sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ *_____________________________________________*
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