Working with Literature
Jan Obdržálek
FI MU
DUVOD, March 28, 2013
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Electronic information sources
main source: http://ezdroje.muni.cz/
Google/Google Scholar
by publisher (IEEE Xplore, SpringerLink, Science Direct, ACM
DIgital Library . . . )
arXiv.org, technical reports, . . .
Download if available!
DOI
Digital Object Identifier
example: 10.1000/182
permanent, resolves to URL
resolved through dx.doi.org
e.g. http://dx.doi.org/10.1000/182
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arXiv.org
archive of electronic preprints
hosted and operated by Cornell University
supported by many other institutions
guarantees long-term availability
fields: mathematics, physics, astronomy, computer science,
quantitative biology, statistics, and quantitative finance
not peer reviewed
organized by category
LaTeX sources are compulsory (if the paper was written in LaTeX)
supports versioning and comments
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Managing bibliography
BibTeX
traditional, complements LaTeX
many frontends: e.g. JabRef, KBibTeX, . . .
inherently desktop-based
Other tools
Mendeley
EndNote (Thomson Reuters)
...
often web-based
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Mendeley
Mendeley Desktop - PDF and reference management
Mendeley Web - online social network for researchers
platforms (Desktop): Qt based - Windows, Linux, Mac
citation data must be stored online (free version: 1GB)
papers may be stored online
PDFs: metadata extraction, inline comments
bookmarklet for browsers, working on many websites
exports to Word/Libre Office/BibTeX
multiple computer synchronization
fulltext search
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BibTeX tips
1 choose a good naming scheme
2 uppercase letters in titles: On some {NP}-complete . . .
3 diacritics and sorting - {\"a} or {\"{a}} not \"{a}
4 UTF8 not working
5 bibtool - good for managing bib files
6 list all entries: \nocite
7 choose appropriate entry type
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Citing – specific advice
journals
short journal names
prefer journal to conference
conferences
short vs long names (be consistent)
e.g. SODA’12
software pakages/tools
cite tool paper (if it exists)
check the webpgae
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