Bibliographic databases

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Apr 8, 2007 at 08:01 AM

This is probably a question for Graham Smith, for whom I am not sure whether he still accesses this forum, but I’m posting it here as it might be of interest to others as well.

In the course of my recently resumed studies I will require some sort of bibliographic database. I am reluctant to use a dedicated product, such as Endnote, but the advantages are obvious; my university even provides as with an Endnote style file to use with the Harvard referencing system.

In the spirit of less CRIMP and more effectiveness through integration of specific tools, I am thinking of ways to integrate such a bibliographic database with my current setup, i.e. Brainstorm as a ‘short term memory’ / text processor and UltraRecall / Zoot as long term repositories of project info and reference material.

Has anyone done something similar, either with Endnote or other relevant products like Biblioscape? Ideally, I would like to keep my reference material in my current repositories linked to/from the dedicated bibliographical database.

I imagine that I could create the relevant bibliographic fields in a delimited Zoot database, but my experience with such customising is still very limited.

alx