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Thanks Lesley You've reminded me that I do know about EndNote, had simply forgotten. Will try that too! Best sue > From: "LESLEY M. SMITH" <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: [WDL] Advice re collecting bibliographical information > > I've been using EndNote for a couple of years now to organize my research. > Although it's billed as a bibliographical software (and does indeed > fulfill that function exceptionally well, with great flexibility for > automatically formatting both citations of all kinds, and bibliographies) > it also functions very well as a knowledge management software, withe > extensive spaces for notes, links which remain live through the life of the > library. I love the flexibility of cite while you write function, which > inserts correctly formatted footnotes, endnotes etc. and also adds each > source to an alphetabized bibliography as I write. And its possible to > search any EndNote library via many routes - author, subject, keywords > defined by each EndNote user, etc. > > I first used it, after years of prodding from a colleague, when he showed > me that I could actually write in each entry where I had filed the source > - either via a relative link on my personal computers, or a URL, or a text > tag, like "orange folder, bottom shelf, bookshelf by door of study" which, > for an eclectic, passionate but basically disorganized researcher such as > myself, was a huge gift. Oh, and it's also possible to download > references directly from major libraries' online catalogues and commercial > research databases. > > Now I keep one big library, into which I enter all the books and articles > I read, whatever the subject, leisure, pleasure, creative or professional, > movies, music, web sites, softwares, etc. etc. I'm often surprised by the > connections I uncover between quite distinct areas of my creative and > professional lives via EndNote, and I'm now involved in a project to teach > the software to first-year university students, as a tool of integration > which they can use throughout their academic careers. > > Wow - I didn't realize I was quite so enthusiastic until I wrote all that > down. Hope this helps, > > Lesley Smith > > PS EndNote arrive with a huge manual, but it's possible to work out the > basics to being building a library and using Cite While You Write very > quickly > > On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Sue Thomas wrote: > >> I'm posting this query to the list and also to Tipmonkies >> http://www.tipmonkies.com/ >> >> I'm just starting a big book project which is going to take me five years >> and will involve an extensive bibliography and an awful lot of footnotes. >> Worse, it will be a multimedia bibliography which so far is spreading across >> bloglines, furl, and del.icio.us as well as all kinds of other websites and >> print media. >> >> What I would like is some kind of template - online or offline - where I can >> collect my growing multimedia bibliography in an orderly fashion, and in >> established format, MLA or whatever. >> >> An important function I'd like is one with fields which retain the correct >> formatting for each entry, i.e. Automatically generating apostrophes around >> certain kinds of titles, or making them italic or underlined, etc. Doing >> that kind of formatting is the most tedious part of the job, so a record >> which only exports as plain text, for example, wouldn't be much help because >> I want to be able to then paste references into footnotes and also generate >> or paste the whole list into a Word doc when I need to - and keep the >> formatting at the same time. A tall order! But I always end up with >> references all over the place and this time I want to start off on the right >> foot. >> >> I started creating this in Excel but realised it would be sensible to find >> out whether someone has already done it first - does anyone have any ideas? >> >> oh, and I am Mac-based :) >> >> Thanks >> Sue >> >> ********** >> >> * Visit the Writing and the Digital Life blog http://writing.typepad.com >> * To alter your subscription settings on this list, log on to Subscriber's >> Corner at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/writing-and-the-digital-life.html >> * To unsubscribe from the list, email [log in to unmask] with a blank >> subject line and the following text in the body of the message: SIGNOFF >> WRITING-AND-THE-DIGITAL-LIFE >> > > ********** > > * Visit the Writing and the Digital Life blog http://writing.typepad.com > * To alter your subscription settings on this list, log on to Subscriber's > Corner at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/writing-and-the-digital-life.html > * To unsubscribe from the list, email [log in to unmask] with a blank > subject line and the following text in the body of the message: SIGNOFF > WRITING-AND-THE-DIGITAL-LIFE ********** * Visit the Writing and the Digital Life blog http://writing.typepad.com * To alter your subscription settings on this list, log on to Subscriber's Corner at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/writing-and-the-digital-life.html * To unsubscribe from the list, email [log in to unmask] with a blank subject line and the following text in the body of the message: SIGNOFF WRITING-AND-THE-DIGITAL-LIFE