Software for Managing Your Bibliography? 77
Oliver Kayas asks: "I'm a newcomer to Linux specifically the Ubuntu distribution. I have been searching for software that will allow me to manage bibliographies for my thesis. I've come across Kile/Latex however, this only works on KDE and I am using Gnome. Under Windows I was using Endnote 8 which even allowed me to link references to documents on my hard disk so I could easily search for papers I just wanted to read. I know I could use an emulator such as Wine to use Endnote but that defeats the object of switching to Linux.
I was wondering if you know of any alternatives?"
Humm... (Score:3, Interesting)
I've been there and done that, writing a thesis that is, but that was in the dark ages(1992-1997). I just used the footnote feature of Word 5.1. Kept each chapter as a separate document, with multiple copies for backup. Even kept a floppy buried in the back yard in a sealed container in case the house burned down.
Back in the day there were not nearly so many online journals etc. as there are today. So, keeping PDFs of articles was not an issue. You just kept photocopies, and referred back to them.
A possible workaround is to keep your journal articles organized in a folder. That way they'd be easily found.
What format are your articles in?
Re:Mac OS (Score:3, Interesting)
BibDesk is GNU. Someone ought to be able to take the source code and brew up a nice version that will work with either KDE, or Gnome.