Often while doing research - big or small - we come across a large volume of information which is but spread across the numerous resources on the Internet, in books etc.
Finally when writing reports or just maintaining notes it becomes a mess to keep track where the information came from. Further, maintaining a database with all the various bibliographic fields can be time consuming and distracting.
Zotero (www.zotero.org) is an ideal answer to this problem. It is available as a plugin to the Firefox browser. Besides, adding webpages to the bibliography, the tool is capable of extracting bibliographic information from pdf files stored locally or being downloaded. Imagine, clicking a button and the title, author etc. being automatically extracted from the journal paper.
It is also available as a standalone application which also provides connectors to other popular browsers.
The best part I like is that it can export the bibliography information to a BibTex file. This can be used while preparing LaTeX documents - by direct input of code or through editors like Lyx.
Finally when writing reports or just maintaining notes it becomes a mess to keep track where the information came from. Further, maintaining a database with all the various bibliographic fields can be time consuming and distracting.
Zotero (www.zotero.org) is an ideal answer to this problem. It is available as a plugin to the Firefox browser. Besides, adding webpages to the bibliography, the tool is capable of extracting bibliographic information from pdf files stored locally or being downloaded. Imagine, clicking a button and the title, author etc. being automatically extracted from the journal paper.
It is also available as a standalone application which also provides connectors to other popular browsers.
The best part I like is that it can export the bibliography information to a BibTex file. This can be used while preparing LaTeX documents - by direct input of code or through editors like Lyx.
Jobin! Really good work, I'm your biggest fan!
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