[Taxacom] Towards a bibliography of life

[Roderic Page]

I've written a blog post on the bibliographic tool Mendeley and using  
it to store bibliographies, with an emphasis on journals relevant to  
taxonomy. The post is here: http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2010/10/mendeley-bhl-and-of-life.html

The basic idea is that Mendeley ( http://www.mendeley.com ) may be a  
way the taxonomic community could assemble bibliographies (including  
one for all taxonomic papers, which I grandly entitled the  
"bibliography of life"). In the past there has been some discussion of  
taxonomists building shared bibliographies (e.g., "CiteBank"). In my  
post I argue that Mendeley may well be pretty much what we need to  
make this happen.

As a start I've been creating lists of all articles published by  
individual journals, and where possible linking these to content in  
BHL. If anybody has relatively comprehensive lists of articles  
published in a journal and would like to share them, please let me  
know and I could add them to Mendley.

I'd also be curious as to how many people have come across Mendeley,  
or indeed use it. For those who haven't heard of it, it is a free tool  
to manage lists of papers and PDFs, runs on Windows, Mac & Linux, and  
also on the web, and can be used with MS Word and Open Office to  
create bibliographies when writing papers.

Regards

Rod

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Roderic Page
Professor of Taxonomy
Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine
College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences
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University of Glasgow
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