[Taxacom] this is going to be space worth watching...

[Jeff Webb]

Zotero looks great, especially since it's platform independant. Not sure why I haven't heard of it before. I've been fiddling with it for a few minutes now with Google Scholar to see how easily I could generate a bibliography for a taxon. It worked great until google threw this error message at me: "your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or
spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process your
request right now."



 Jeff Webb 


Department of Environmental Management and Ecology
La Trobe University, Albury-Wodonga Campus
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From: Jim Croft <jim.croft at gmail.com>
To: tyler <tyler.smith at mail.mcgill.ca>
Cc: TaxaCom <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 12:58:47 PM
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] this is going to be space worth watching...

It is probably a shame the case was dismissed.
http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/06/thomson-reuters-suit-against-zotero-software-dismissed.ars

Pronouncements on what you can and can't do with 'proprietary formats'
might have been quite interesting...

jim

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:58 PM, tyler<tyler.smith at mail.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> Jim Croft writes:
>  > Thanks Tyler - it takes time for news, even good, to reach the
>  > antipodes - trade winds and all that... :)
>  >
>  > was there an aftermath, or did it just go away?
>
> I don't know - your message was what prompted me to go looking. I
> hadn't seen Zotero before, but it looks amazing! I've been using LaTeX
> and bibtex for a few years, but this might make it worth switching to
> OpenOffice, Firefox and Zotero instead. The main downside I can see is
> that it looks like you have to use a mouse to use the interface, which
> is hard on my arthritic hands.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tyler
>
>
>  >
>  > jim
>  >
>  > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:21 PM, tyler<tyler.smith at mail.mcgill.ca> wrote:
>  > > Jim Croft writes:
>  > >  > http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7214/full/455708a.html
>  > >
>  > > That link is 9 months old. The suit has already been dismissed,
>  > > although an appeal is still possible:
>  > >
>  > > http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/06/thomson-reuters-suit-against-zotero-software-dismissed.ars
>  > >
>  > > In any case, this is a pretty compelling reason not to use EndNote
>  > > anymore!
>  > >
>  > > Cheers,
>  > >
>  > > Tyler
>  > >
>  > >
>  > > --
>  > > Who is your computer working for?
>  > >
>  > > http://www.defectivebydesign.org/faq
>  > >
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  > --
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>  >
>  > ... in pursuit of the meaning of leaf ...
>  >
>  > ... 'All is leaf' ('Alles ist Blatt') - Goethe
>
> --
> What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out,
> which is the exact opposite.           --Bertrand Russell
>



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... 'All is leaf' ('Alles ist Blatt') - Goethe

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