You may find this useful. Its called Zotero and is a firefox plugin http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/11/27/zotero-firefox-bibliography-plugin/
-gaurav On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Nick Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For a while I've really wanted to have some sort of database that would > allow me to keep track of papers relevant to my research. Basically, > right now I just download papers I find that are of interest, and put > them in a hierarchy of directories by subject. This has a couple of > problems: 1) It takes time to do the organizing. 2) The subject matter > of papers is not hierarchical, it's more of a web. 3) There's no easy > way to store metadata about the paper (e.g., author & title) such that > it can be browsed through without opening every paper. 4) No convenient > way to track read/unread status. 5) It's not searchable. I'm hoping > there's a piece of software one can use on Linux to help with this sort > of thing, either software specifically for this purpose or one that > could be adapted without very much work (or much programming > expertise). Surely some of you bright academics have tried to find a > solution to this sort of problem before. :-) I'm also open to web > services for these purposes, my only hesitation is that I may then end > up with my info locked into it with no possibility to migrate later. > > I've come up with some idea for solutions, but none seem all that good: > 1) I could simply keep a spreadsheet (or text file) with each paper's > associated information (bibliographic info, read/unread status, > tags/keywords) and the file name of the paper (if it exists). 2) Try to > use my BibTeX bibliographic database and Pybliographic GUI to keep track > of all the info about papers and, again, point to file locations (not > sure how feasible this is). 3) Hope I can find a URL for the abstract of > each paper and use del.icio.us to bookmark and tag each one. Make sure > to put all bibliographic info in the notes section. > > Of those, #1 seems like the most plausible solution but far from ideal. > > Regards, > > Nick > >
