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Re: Managing your collection of books and papers
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Author: Malcolm Dean
Posted: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:10:00 -0800
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> 1. Do you enter both books and articles into the same database (if you
> keep one big database, as seems to be the norm)?
This is a great concern. I already have a collection of over 17,000
PDFs, and I read in the forums user concerns about database crashes,
etc. Most vendors seem to have greatly underestimated how much data
users are having to deal with. I would like to see more statements of
direction from the vendor, particularly about moving to a more stable
OS, and taking advantage of the new Intel-based Macintosh architecture.
> 2. Do you enter ALL material, you get, into the database. If you buy a
> new book, do you then enter it into your database instantly, or do you
> wait until you maybe use it for your writing? That is, do you aim at
> keeping the database as a mirror of your physical collection, or do
> you use it more pragmatically, according to your needs in writing?
If citation data is downloadable along with a paper, I grab it. But if I
bring a book home, or create a PDF from a Web site, I wait until I need
the citation in a paper. Meanwhile, I use Acrobat's note function to
store the URL and raw citation data, just in case.
> It would be nice if somewhere you could just enter the ISDN-number of
> a book, you got, and then download the information (several records
> with all the chapters, if it was an edited book) and import it into
RM.
RM has a great Z39.50 facility built in. Have you tried the US Library
of Congress? Start with a wider search, such as for the author's name or
title.
Malcolm Dean
Los Angeles
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