Thanks everyone for the recommendations, they are much appreciated! I will be checking them out (while trying not to use it to distract from real work ;) By the way: as regards jabref - I ran it online for a quick look, and it may have done something funny to my AVG antivirus which gave this message the next time I booted up: "Could not initialise AVG Anti-Virus kernel interface". Looking online I found that it *may* have something to do with using the Java. Also: in my Opera browser all my settings for cookies disappeared... Anyway, I reinstalled AVG etc. and all is fine so no harm done - but just a word of warning to anyone out there. Thanks again, Julian ++++++++++ Julian Hopkins Senior Lecturer HELP University College - ADP Kuala Lumpur tel: +60 3 2095 8791 x2913 email: julianh@help.edu.my web: http://www.help.edu.my -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition.