A solid bibliography database is vital for every research project, yet building it is considered an ugly manual task by many – particularly by old-school researchers. But this does not have to be painful if we use modern toolkit. The following features appear particularly important:
- collaborative work (sharing etc)
- extraction magic (online search, automated record population)
- tag-annotation support (organize records with keywords or comments)
- multi-format support (export and import using BibTeX or other formats)
- plugins to popular editors (Office, GoogleDocs)
I have had a particularly nice experience with Zotero (many thanks to my work colleagues from SensyneHealth for recommending this!). Let the pictures below demonstrate it in action!
tag and search…
organize notes…
automatically extract from databases…
format and export…