I have previously mentioned my favorite personal bibliography/citation management tool, Zotero. Of course, one of its main drawbacks is that its user interface is a Firefox Plugin, which means only those of us who have adopted the open source browser can make use of Zotero.
I recently became aware of some other useful tools that exist entirely on the web and/or have cross-platform bookmarklets making them useful no matter what your operating system or browser preferences:
Knight Cite, a tool developed for the Calvin College community but available to the public, is mainly a formatted citation generator. There are other similar tools available, but this one is well done and has a lot of features.
Connotea formats citations and produces shareable html bibliographies from them. I haven’t exxplored it well enough to know if it has export options as rich as Zotero’s. It appears to focus mainly on citing web pages and other online resources.
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Jan
// Feb 19, 2009 at 7:38 am
Dear Lee,
another alternative could be Mendeley (http://www.mendeley.com, I’m a co-founder). Mendeley is two things: Free academic desktop software (available for Windows, Mac and Linux) for managing & sharing research papers, and a website where you can back up and manage your research papers, discover research trends, and connect to like-minded researchers.
Our vision is to create a “Last.fm for Research” (http://www.mendeley.com/blog/2008/07/an-excellent-euroscience-adventure-part-ii/), and since you work at the Oklahoma City University Library it would be great to get your feedback on Mendeley. You can either see what’s currently being discussed in our feedback forum (http://feedback.mendeley.com) or feel free to send me an e-mail directly (jan.reichelt@mendeley.com).
Best wishes
Jan
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lwebb
// Feb 19, 2009 at 9:20 am
Thanks Jan, Mendeley does look quite interesting. I look forward to exploring it!
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