Erwin's StarOffice Tango

Alternative to Endnote (bibliography / citation)
I just found out about Citavi. Citavi is an alternative to bibliography / citation tools like Endnote. Currently, Citavi is only available in German, but I guess the company is willing to add more languages based on user feedback. Thus, send your language and feature requests per email to Citavi! The interesting thing about Citavi is that there is a free entry version of Citavi which should be sufficient for the needs of most students, at least for the first years. An increasing number of universities now even seems to buy site licenses of Citavi. And the best part is, Citavi apparently already has very good support for OpenOffice.org and StarOffice. AFAIK, it's even possible to put Citavi on a USB stick together with other portable apps like OpenOffice.org. Thus, a student can carry all the necessary tools with her or him.
( Jan 08 2008, 10:40:03 AM CET ) Permalink Kommentare [4]

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It is nice to be able to carry all the necessary tools with me :)) I liked it

Gesendet von alper celik am Januar 08, 2008 at 11:30 AM CET #

Hi,
Have you heard of Zotero? Zotero is a Firefox extension for managing bibliographies that has a "cite as you write" extension for OOo. It works great, is cross-platform (Linux, OS X, and Windows all supported), and, most importantly, it has a Free software license.
http://www.zotero.org/

Zotero incorporates the open standard CSL citation language developed by the co-leader of the OOo bibliographic project team (OOoBib), Bruce D'Arcus, who recommends Zotero for everyday use:
http://www.mail-archive.com/dev@bibliographic.openoffice.org/msg00896.html

Please check out the Zotero project, I think it's a much better alternative for researchers.

Gesendet von blog_reader am Januar 08, 2008 at 11:39 AM CET #

I neglected to mention that Zotero can be used with a USB drive, too, once the portable version of Firefox is installed, as well as OOo portable and the two extensions (Zotero for Firefox and Zotero for OOo).

Gesendet von syb am Januar 08, 2008 at 12:18 PM CET #

Yeah, Erwin, time for you to use your marketing skills to promote an excellent free alternative (Zotero). I've been trying to find volunteers in the OOo community to continue with maintenance and support of the Zotero OOo plug-in, but have not had any luck.

Gesendet von Bruce D'Arcus am Januar 10, 2008 at 07:46 PM CET #