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See this blog post, and Thomas Zander's comment.
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@jrkrideau: If you're addressing my comment, you're a bit off-topic. I wasn't talking about LyX per se but about "LaTeX-based solutions." LaTeX is simply not a reasonable alternative unless the places where you submit manuscripts explicitly accept i…
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Worth pointing out that using a LaTeX-based solution (like LyX) only makes sense if you're in the sciences or math, where publishers accept LaTeX manuscripts. This is not widely true outside of the sciences.
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OOo is lighter-weight than Word. Give it a try.
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I really think it's time to find some way to have a structured discussion (not ad hoc and casual discussions spread across multiple threads, trac tickets, and venues) about how a variety of these data issues (URIs and RDF stuff, multi-lingual suppor…
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Or do you mean having to look at the bottom of the page, and then elsewhere once more? Yes. If so, that's true - but I wonder why book and journals still use it. There are lots of reasons why different citation styles exist (production consideration…
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First, would "Chicago Manual of Style (Dated Note with Bibliography, no ibid)" be suitable for much of what is being asked for here? I spent ages hunting for something like this, and this largely works for me (apart from the "no ibid."). Sure. Secon…
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Just a curious, foundational, question: why such an involved system that requires PDF?
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I appreciate the fast development pace of Mendeley and their efforts in cooperating with zotero on the users' side. As they use bits and pieces from Zotero code, I wish Zotero interface can also benefit from some of their ideas, too ... Note: Zotero…
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And in research (and Zotero is a research tool), the name of advisor can tell me a lot about thesis. I can "certify" research quality (or a probable lack thereof). It can tell me what the work is probably about, what technique(s) were preferebly use…
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Yeah, I've been playing with Wave for a bit, and there's been some work on a citation robot for it. It does have some potential for this area.
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It seems that unlike CSL/bibo, Zotero is a research tool ... I don't agree with this characterization, in part because I'm not sure it's helpful in this discussion. CSL is clearly about citations. BIBO has a much wider scope (is in fact more-or-le…
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I would suggest enabling "Editor" author type for theses. After all, advisor in most cases does the editing. But why? What value does that provide you? If you care to note this information, why not put it in a note? Generally I could suggest giving…
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It is a specific role, but is this information ever included in citations (not in my experience)? And where do you draw the line? Should Zotero also add "committee member"?
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Zotero items need to make sense across disciplines and fields. So, letters, emails, interviews, presentations, all work OK. Actually, they reflect the biases of the social sciences and (in particular) the humanities ;-) In BIBO, FWIW, we distinguis…
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Oh, BTW, on your "bias," better groups support can encourage collaborative communities around preparations for exams, theses, etc. That's exactly what I'm experimenting with now (for beginning grad students). No reason these need to be hermetic acti…
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Feature creep is always a concern. OTOH, I don't think integration with existing courseware solutions (all of which suck) is a solution either. So if they're going to do groups, then they ought to do it right, and we're still a ways from that. P…
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Doesn't solve the immediate problem, but Isn't the notion of freezing software for an entire term likely to only become increasingly anachronistic over time?
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The current note model assumes a hermetic scholar. OTOH, fora for groups feels like such an old school solution that would be decoupled from the source data per se. I think it's worth at least considering adding the possibility for threaded notes…
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@williamgunn: Your Mendeley data syncs with citeulike and Zotero, is backed up online and locally, and is available for export in a variety of formats. You have plenty of options if something were to happen to Mendeley as a company. Two issues rela…
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I would upgrade on one machine, and sync it. If that works fine (it should), then update the other, and either sync, or restore from server (if the content is the same).
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I'm not insisting you do anything; I'm asking you to be more specific (I asked you what fields you need, and you didn't answer) so that a more adequate solution can be devised.
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"Unpublished result" may be knowledge, which has been distilled from some measurements, computations and discussions, but not yet put into a publication, and probably at the moment not even intended for a publication for some reasons. That doesn't e…
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If you read through the history of this forum, you'll see me previously explaining that a policy of simply adding types ad hoc is a really bad idea for the simple fact that what people consider important varies a lot depending where you are. If we a…
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Well, the problem is Zotero does have some specific personal communication document types (email, letter, etc.), but no generic catchall, and no type for non-document communications. Simply adding a new type without broader thought of how it fits in…
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Yeah, I've found the groups I've created to be an absolute social failure (as measured by number of contributing members). There are likely many reasons for this, but part of it is the lack of ability to interact.
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Odd; why would you use this feature to encode redundant information (the container data is included in the parts)? Admittedly, though, "related" is so vague as to be meaningless.
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And I guess I'll repeat my (more implicit) point that this would be a good third-party opportunity.
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If an item has 1) a date of publication in the future 2) the word forthcoming or 3) the words in press; in the date field... It's my firm belief that you guys have a tendency to put way too much emphasis on free text parsing. Status should be a sepa…
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As far as APA is concerned in press is the only thing (other than n.d) that should be substituted in the date spot. So this is what I am seeing: APA says an article should be described as "in press." Chicago says the same article should be called…