home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!funic!sauna.cs.hut.fi!cs.hut.fi!kta
- From: kta@cs.hut.fi (Kari Alho)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Subject: Re: Programs to manage academic bibliographies?
- Date: 7 Jan 1993 12:45:12 GMT
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- Lines: 101
- Distribution: inet
- Message-ID: <KTA.93Jan7144457@frodo.cs.hut.fi>
- References: <92365.114441PEF2@psuvm.psu.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: frodo.cs.hut.fi
- In-reply-to: Per Fjelstad's message of Wed, 30 Dec 1992 11:44:41 EST
-
- In article <92365.114441PEF2@psuvm.psu.edu> Per Fjelstad <PEF2@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
-
- For several years I have been searching for software specifically designed to
- organize bibliographic databases. Records would have fields for author, title,
- publisher, etc., as well as fields for subject headings, keywords, and general
- comments or notes.
-
- Finally I found an MS-DOS executable program in an archive (wuarchive.wustle.ed
- u) that seems to fit the bill. It is called Academic Reference Management Syst
- em Plus (AP11.ZIP in the archive). Ping Sing Kuo, now professor of economics i
- n Taiwan, wrote it and put it in the public domain in early 1990. Since the pr
- ogram claims to fulfill precisely my cataloguing needs, I am inclined to begin
- to learn how to use it. I hesitate, for the moment, however, unfamiliar as I a
- m with anyone who has had experience using that (or a similar) program.
-
- I post in this newsgroup to draw on some of your experience and knowledge:
-
- 1. Have any of you used this program (AP.EXE)?
-
- 2. What cataloguing and retrieval needs did it serve well?
-
- 3. What difficulties did you have using the program?
-
- 4. Were the data stored in a form that could be read by
- a new or different program?
-
- 5. More generally, have you had good or poor experiences using
- shareware programs of this kind?
-
- 6. Are there other newsgroups you know of that might be able to give
- me more specific direction in my search for software to manage
- my bibliographic references?
-
-
- Thank you for your assistance,
-
- Per Fjelstad, (Ph.D. Cand.)
- Rhetorical Studies,
- Dept. of Speech Communication,
- Penn State University
-
-
- I can only answer questions nr. 5 and 6. Me and some colleagues have
- been using a freeware program called bibview for some time, and its
- capabilities seem adequate and we are generally quite happy with it.
- It runs on UNIX workstations and uses X Window System for the user
- interface. The data is stored in BibTeX format.
-
- I found the sources in newsgroup comp.sources.x. This is the contents
- of the README file:
-
-
- BIBVIEW
- (graphical interface for BibTeX program)
- by Holger Martin, Peter Urban, Armin Liebl
- liebla@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
-
-
-
- What "bibview" is:
- ------------------
-
- The program "bibview" is a graphical interface for manipulating
- BiBTeX databases. It supports the user in making new entries,
- searching for entries and moving entries from one BiB to another.
- It is possible to work with more than one BiB simultaneously.
- bibview is implemented with Xt and Athena Widgets.
- There are six types of windows in bibview:
- The main window contains menus for customizing bibview and
- for working with BiBs on the file level.
- The bibliography window (one for every open BiB) contains commands
- for manipulating the BiB.
- The list window (at most one for every open BiB) shows a list of
- entries. It displays the fields author, title, type and year.
- The card window (at most one for every entry) helps editing an entry.
- It contains boxes for each field of the entry (according to the type).
- The fields can be edited by putting the mouse cursor into the field.
- Macros in fields and the symbol for concatenation ('#') are marked
- with a preceding '@'.
-
-
- Installing bibview:
- -------------------
-
- bibview was tested on a HP 9000/710 running HP/UX,
- DECstation 2100 and MicroVax II running ULTRIX and
- on a SUN running SunOS 4.1.
- To install bibview, type "xmkmf" and then "make".
- Good luck!
- To create the German version, insert -DGERMAN.
-
-
- Questions, comments, hacked source code:
- ----------------------------------------
- Armin Liebl
- liebla@informatik.tu-muenchen.de
-
- --
- // Kari Alho // Telephone : +358-0-451 3390 //
- // Helsinki University of Technology // FAX : +358-0-451 3293 //
- // Department of Computer Science // Internet : kta@cs.hut.fi //
-