Comments on: Linklets

By: H of L

H of L — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:12:25 +0000

Thanks to everyone who provided links. Oddly enough, I was just thinking that I was getting way tired of starting up another new bibliography list, let alone managing my existing one. I’ll definitely check out the OS X choices …

By: Kevin Goldstein

Kevin Goldstein — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 10:11:08 +0000

I recommend checking out Zotero. Its a great firefox plugin for organizing references and notes about references.

It recognizes the bibliographic information on various webpages — like ADS, Spires and the arxiv — which you can easily add to its database.

By: Ellipsis

Ellipsis — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:58:18 +0000

That’s impressive.

or styrofoam-coated… I hate to be a doubting Thomas, but that rock doesn’t seem to sink even when it’s not moving forward anymore. Partially pumice…? Does anyone have the stone?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 03:26:10 +0000

51 times!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7deV22aWESc

That’s impressive.

By: Doug Natelson

Doug Natelson — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:20:54 +0000

The Electric Company DVDs (having to small children provides my convenient excuse for buying these) have brought back to my memory all the great Tom Lehrer songs that he did for that show. “Silent E” is awesome.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 22:11:44 +0000

Oh, so that’s how people write those papers with reference lists that take up more than a page? It looks interesting, maybe I’ll get around to it – after I start using BibTex. I’m only going to be truly impressed once it lets you run a cron job to scrape ADS and automatically update your CV.

Also, Brad, there are programs to read mail? I just use “cat /var/spool/mail/username”

If you attached the bibcode to the entry on import that would make automatic links out to ADS fairly trivial.

By: Julianne

Julianne — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:34:17 +0000

So JabRef is BibTeX, but unnecssarily fancy …. ?

Necessarily fancy! With the gawdawful literature trolling I’m doing, I’m building up enormous databases of observational papers, and the ability to group them easily, to have paper titles in an easily scanned column, to have the list automatically alphebetized by author, to automatically generate the reference tags, and to set up click through links to the actual papers all make trying to track down stuff much easier. An assiduously organized person would be fine with a plain text file of the BibTex, but for me, that system has started to break.

I’d heard about bibdesk, but needed something I could run under linux as well.
The CiteULike looks promising, once I get over the name soundling like they’re marketing a new flavor of gum.

By: mollishka

mollishka — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:16:01 +0000

So JabRef is BibTeX, but unnecssarily fancy …. ?

By: jackd

jackd — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:07:30 +0000

Fifty-one is indeed amazing. I do wonder how many plinks and pitty-pats went into the record.

Oh, and if you haven’t already started collecting the odd, interesting, and amusing things your child says, I recommend you do so soon.

By: Drew Arrowood

Drew Arrowood — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:31:01 +0000

When I was working as a research associate at the American Institute of Physics back in the last century, I noted that the publisher of “Two Fisted Science” sent a copy of the comic book so that it could be noted in Physics Today. There was an angry note placed on the comic book by a certain luminary, stating that we wouldn’t acknowledge such “garbage”. I felt his opinion was a little small-minded, and the readership would find it interesting, and certainly Feynman (the subject of that particular one) would have loved it.

By: Ponder Stibbons

Ponder Stibbons — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:44:09 +0000

CiteULike automatically sets up links to the paper URLs provided you add them to your library in a certain way --- if you click on their special bookmark when you're at the abstract URL, it adds the paper to your library complete with all the bibliographical information. It works with ArXiV, ADS, APS, AIP, and many others besides.

By: Andre

Andre — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:10:22 +0000

Phil recently asked how people organize their pdfs and bibliographies and got some good responses in the comments if you're not totally satisfied with JabRef.

By: Brad Holden

Brad Holden — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:42:21 +0000

The student I work with uses bibdesk, though that is a Mac application. He highly recommends it.

The other major collaborator in that project uses copy and paste out of vi. Of course, he also still uses UCB mail with some hand-rolled smtp fu to deal with attachments.

51 times is insane.