I use Endnote and simply put quotes in the "notes" field. This has the added benefit of allowing me to search for quotes and key terms. In fact, when possible, I put the entire text of an article in the notes section. I also put a link to the filename of the article when I'm able to download an article. I've tried hard to convince other graduate students and faculty to share their Endnote libraries but have not had much success. Other than laziness and lack of use of these powerful biblio tracking applications, I can't understand why folks would not want to share the refs they find helpful. Can someone explain this lack of sharing to me? Thanks, Charlie LSU Doctorial Candidate http://charlie.balch.org -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Axel Bruns Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 11:11 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] Citation Managers - Alternatives to Endnote/CiteULike/... ? Dear AoIRers, I'm wondering if any of you can suggest useful alternatives to research citation manager tools such as Endnote or CiteULike. My approach to research is to store key quotations from a source alongside the bibliographic reference, but none of the standard tools I have come across seem to do this particularly effectively (e.g. in Endnote, the best available workaround appears to be to create an additional field for quotes in the bibliographic record, but this is clunky and doesn't work very well with multiple quotes stored against the same record). My preferred workflow would be a two-step process: 1. Create a primary bibliographic record for the source, e.g. [2] Graham Meikle. _Future Active: Media Activism and the Internet_. New York: Routledge, 2002. 2. Create (multiple) quotations as secondary records stored against the primary one, e.g. [2.1] "People who hope to draw attention to issues can use the Net in a host of ways, but few are effective without the eventual participation of the older media." (5) [2.2] "One way to measure the success of many of the projects . is to ask how effectively they can use the Net to force their cause onto the agenda of the mainstream media." (8) etc. Are there any tools (preferably open source, possibly Web-based) which do something along these lines ? Obviously I'm also keen on functionality to convert references automatically into a number of referencing styles (MLA, APA, etc.). Failing this, the best alternative I can see is to use a tool such as CiteULike for the primary references, and create an additional database which stores quotations against the CiteULike references, but this seems kludgy at best. Hopefully there's a better solution ? Any suggestions would be appreciated, and if there's any interest I'll post a summary of what I find... -- Dr Axel Bruns a.bruns@qut.edu.au - http://snurb.info/ Media & Communication Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove, Qld. 4059, Australia Creative Industries Faculty Z2-202, CIP - (07) 3864 5548 Queensland University of Technology CRICOS No.: 00213J _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/