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aquavitae
August 12th, 2008, 01:23 AM
Does anyone know if there is a package which can store my reasearch (i.e. web pages, pdfs, etc) along with bibtex references in a database like sqlite. At the moment I've got my research stored in local folders and a bibtex file (created by jabref) with links to them. The trouble is that the folder management is really messy so I thought it would make sense instead to store it in a sqlite database.

Any suggestions?

UbuWu
August 12th, 2008, 08:47 PM
Referencer might be helpful

http://icculus.org/referencer/

aquavitae
August 13th, 2008, 01:12 AM
Thanks for the suggestion - it looks perfect! Ideally I'd like something that will work in windows too; I do quite a bit of research at work where I'm forced to use it. But I think I might just install linux in a VM for it.

xadder
August 13th, 2008, 08:54 AM
I tried referencer first since it does look good, but then found serious problems - referencer picks up the wrong doi sometimes, and then assigns the wrong document.

I then moved to jabref and have been very happy since! I keep almost all my documents in one folder now, and just add "keywords" in the jabref(bibtex) file to let me search for specific issues. I have thousands of pdfs, and I have found this system far superior to anything else I have tried. Also, I am very happy to keep my info in a plain txt file (.bib), so I can edit by hand when required. Databases sound good, but just seem to add another layer of complication as far as I can see.