Managing electronic references

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Conclusion

This article provided an overview of free tools available for creating and maintaining your literary inventory. Each tool addresses different working styles and habits. The technical implementation varies between modular building blocks and complex all-inclusive solutions. All the tools shown here are based on existing established data formats and provide corresponding import and export functions. In this way, you're not trapped in proprietary formats and your research findings are always accessible, even when you change tools.

If these tools don't offer what you're looking for, you can take a look at other options, such as Bibus [36], TextCite [37], RefBase [38], and CiteULike [39]. These tools are also very interesting but outside the scope of this article.

Acknowledgments

The author thanks Dirk Deimeke, Wendi Wuestemann, Joerg Dolz, and Christian Bagdahn for their insight and comments while preparing this article.

Infos

  1. The Vroniplag project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VroniPlag_Wiki
  2. Reference Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference
  3. "Using the Leo Editor" by Andreas Reitmaier, Ubuntu User , Issue 23, 2014: http://www.ubuntu-user.com/Magazine/Archive/2014/23/Using-the-Leo-editor/%28language%29/eng-GB
  4. Markdown Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown
  5. Markdown project page: https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
  6. AsciiDoc: http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/
  7. Etherpad: http://etherpad.org/
  8. Pandoc: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
  9. BibTeX: http://www.bibtex.org/
  10. DocBook: http://docbook.org/
  11. BibTex – Show ISBN number?: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/52040/bibtex-show-isbn-number
  12. Calibre: http://calibre-ebook.com/
  13. JabRef: http://jabref.sourceforge.net/
  14. JabRef Debian package: https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/jabref
  15. CiteSeer Scientific Literature Digital Library: http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/
  16. IEEE Xplore Digital Library http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/home.jsp
  17. Digital Library of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): http://dl.acm.org/
  18. Docear: http://www.docear.org/
  19. Freeplane: http://www.freeplane.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
  20. KBibTeX: http://home.gna.org/kbibtex/
  21. KBibTeX Debian package: https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/kbibtex
  22. Zotero: https://www.zotero.org/
  23. Zotero Debian package: https://packages.debian.org/wheezy-backports/zotero-standalone
  24. Citavi: http://www.citavi.com/
  25. Mendeley: http://www.mendeley.com/
  26. Refeus: https://refeus.de/ (in German)
  27. EndNote: http://www.endnote.com/
  28. Droideley: https://github.com/petrvolny/Droideley
  29. ODABA: http://odaba.com/
  30. COinS Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COinS
  31. HTML <span> tag at w3schools: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_span.asp
  32. Citebase: http://www.citebase.org/
  33. WorldCat: http://www.worldcat.org/
  34. ResearchGate: http://www.researchgate.net/
  35. WordPress plugin for COinS (Zotero): https://www.zotero.org/support/plugins
  36. Bibus: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bibus-biblio/
  37. TextCite: http://textcite.sourceforge.net/
  38. RefBase: http://www.refbase.net/
  39. CiteULike: http://www.citeulike.org/

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