On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:34:26PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Gavin Carr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've just had a friend ask me whether there's anything in the free software > > world for academic research / writing i.e. tracking bibliographic info, > > citations, quotes etc., and then collating them into a written product. > > > > Any cluesticks? What do you real academics out there use (without wanting > > to start an editor and/or word processor war!). > > There are a number of tools available to aid research. OpenOffice.org has for > a long time had functionality to manage sources and bibliographic entries. > Two standalone apps which come to mind are Tomboy[1] and BasKet[2]. > > For Web-based research, it might make sense to manage sources within the Web > browser itself. There are several extensions for Firefox to do this[3], > including Zotero[4], Research Buddy[5], and Diigo[6]. > > > [1] http://www.gnome.org/projects/tomboy/ > [2] http://basket.kde.org/ > [3] https://addons.mozilla.org/search.php?q=research&type=E&app=firefox > [4] http://www.zotero.org/ > [5] http://researchbuddy.mozdev.org/ > [6] https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2792/
Thanks a lot to all who replied - I've got a swag of things to go away and try out now. Should be fun! Cheers, Gavin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
