Category Archives: research tools

Zotero Releases Official Statement Concerning Endnote Law Suit

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OpenOffice 3.0 Notes Feature - Printing Notes

Last week I wrote about the Open Office 3.0 note feature. If you have students submit papers electronically - OpenOffice 3.0 is a big improvement - because you can type notes and comments that appear in colored bubbles in the margins.
The problem is that in OpenOffice 3.0 these comment bubbles appear outside the printable margin. [...]

OpenOffice 3.0 Note Feature

Here’s a reason for academics to be interested in OpenOffice 3.0 - It has a much improved notes feature.
Recent version of MS Word enables users to include notes in the margins. I rely on that feature a lot to write up comments on papers from my colleagues or my students. MS Word always had a [...]

More on EndNote vs. Zotero

Two very good discussions regarding the recent lawsuit that EndNote makers filed against the makers of Zotero - here and here.
Stop using EndNote.
[HT: Mark Eli Kalderon]

Endnote Suing Virginia Over Zotero

Stop using Endnote.
Thomson Reuters, the maker of Endnote, is suing Virginia over Zotero. The claim is that the makers of Zotero reverse engineered Endnote to make Zotero.
However, it doesn’t look like that’s true. It looks like Zotero allows users to use their own Endnote file and save their bibliographic information back as an Endnote file [...]

Free the Air Waves

The move from analog to digital TV will free up a ton of unused white space. The issue is - what do we do with all of that space?
The folks at Google are pushing to free it up.
Big telecom companies would like this white space to remain heavily regulated and controlled. If this space is [...]

Google Scholar Library Integration

Sometimes searching through library websites is a laborious chore. When you first encounter a new library site, it’s sometimes unclear where to go to get what you need. Any one search can take you through a bunch of Herculean tasks. A lot of those tasks dangle a “Full Text of Article” carrot in front of [...]