Except for articles, for which journals usually provide relevant information, I feel that preparing a proper bibliography is a tedious task. A few available tools (ottobib
, Mendeley
, Refworks
, zotero
) may help but it looks to me that they are still limited in terms of providing exact reference information. For instance, it is sometimes hard to chose among @book
, @inbook
, @incollection
, @collection
and available databases are decently vague on this. Also, first names of authors, annotators, translators is most always missing. What I am thinking of (it may exist already) is then a social network oriented database mainly in a bibtex sense that could be modified, updated and discussed by users in a way similar to what happens on this http://tex.stackexchange.com
site where users may correct other users' messages. Based on these concerns, could a collaborative http://bibtex.stackexchange.com/
site be set-up soon?
I am using the (commercial) program Papers2
on my mac. It has a search function that directly taps into web of science
(if you have access), arxiv
and e.g. Google scholar
. It imports the paper including the provided meta information.
Then, you can use lifve
to share that information with other people. It is some kind of social network that uses a twitter
account to connect people. I played only a little with it, but it sounds like something you might be interested in.
Unfortunately, I don't know how to use or access it outside of papers 2
, but since it is based on twitter, there might be solutions for other platforms as well.
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I have to investigate more but this twitter oriented strategy may be of interest here. Is it something like: on twitter I am following a guy who I know is looking for a reference. I am myself in a library and take time to find this reference and then send the information? – pluton Jun 9 '12 at 17:08
:)
). But is this not rather a question for TeX.meta? – Count Zero Jun 2 '12 at 15:36.bib
files? – Joseph Wright♦ Jun 2 '12 at 17:58