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Comment on Zotero Review by abejero | from the Big Apple to the banks of the Mekong

abejero | from the Big Apple to the banks of the Mekong — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:21:19 +0000

[...] In writing my report (effect of purchasing on quality of health service delivery in Kampot, Cambodia), I came across a useful tool I just have to rave about: Zotero. It’s a citation manager that works out of your Firefox browser which stores, retrieves, organizes, and annotates digital documents. Here’s a list of its main utilities, by Efficient Academic: [...]

Comment on Organising your PDF files by NellyG

NellyG — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:44:17 +0000

Mendeley would be just the perfect tool for this; unfortunately it has a pdf upload limit of 500Mb which is definitely not adapted to our needs (I have also more than 10Gb of pdfs).
If this is increased in the future, I would definitely use Mendeley.

Comment on Organising your PDF files by bala

bala — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:28:34 +0000

@Lucian As i’ve put in the comments, Mendeley (http://www.mendeley.com/) seems to be the best one out there for now. Hope that would help you out.

Comment on Organising your PDF files by Lucian

Lucian — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:05:04 +0000

oh btw I am a windows user so this probably makes the problem tougher…

Comment on Organising your PDF files by Lucian

Lucian — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:51:43 +0000

hi,

I have stumbled on your post while looking for a program to organise my 10+ Gb collection of scientific articles. you said you have already tried a lot of organising programs. can you seggest on for me please? I am looking for a program that will allow me to look into a pdf file and tagg it with some keywords then I can do a search on those keywords and I can copy the files containing a specific keyword into a directory.

I hope I am not asking too much…

Lucian

Comment on Organising your PDF files by Iqbal

Iqbal — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:00:04 +0000

Thanks Bala…am going to try mendeley beta

Comment on Organising your PDF files by bala

bala — Fri, 22 May 2009 13:30:07 +0000

Try http://www.mendeley.com/ Would have a review up here soon.

Comment on Organising your PDF files by Tom k

Tom k — Thu, 07 May 2009 10:19:11 +0000

Im really looking for a program that will go through my pdf’s that I have stored on my computer and rename them according to either authors or title of pdf from within the pdf. I know this is a big ask but whats the best piece of software for organising pdf’s directly on your pc rather than online?

Comment on English-Only Science in a Multilingual World: Costs, Benefits, and Options by press

press — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:33:31 +0000

Oops, looks like some of my post got cut.

In his article under Language at Jacob Christensen Richard Gallagher states, “the dominance of English is holding back the free exchange of ideas across most of the world, which may have consequences for all of us.” But, Richard does not suggest an alternative; neither do the posts that do not want English as the international language. So just how are we to communicate, telepathically?

I suspect that the posts that condemn the use of English as the international mode of communication are not native speakers of English.

Actually, the true international language of science is math. But, English will do.

Comment on English-Only Science in a Multilingual World: Costs, Benefits, and Options by press

press — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:31:59 +0000

dominance of English is holding back the free exchange of ideas across most of the world, which may have consequences for all of us.” But, Richard does not suggest an alternative; neither do the posts that do not want English as the international language. So just how are we to communicate, telepathically?

I suspect that the posts that condemn the use of English as the international mode of communication are not native speakers of English.

I do think that all students, science or otherwise, should be required to speak a second language. And, there was a time when all science majors had to learn Latin, and many schools required engineering students to read German.