Archive for the ‘Computing tips’ Category

March 17, 2010 9

Paperpile: A new kid on the block

By in Computing tips, Early-adopter, Reference management, Software

Tweet The first public beta of Paperpile–the latest entry in the crowded arena of free reference management software–has been recently announced. As I write, a test version is available for Linux, but Mac and Windows versions should be released soon. From the screenshots gallery, it looks like Paperpile will feature a streamlined (although quite typical) [...]

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January 29, 2010 4

Introducing citeproc-js

By in Computing tips, Early-adopter, FOSS, Reference management, Software, Web 2.0, Writing

citeproc-js is a citation processor driven by CSL (Citation Style Language), an open standard for describing citation and bibliography formats. It is a low-level tool, developed in connection with the Zotero project, that aims to provide a uniform engine for handling references across a wide variety of platforms.

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January 24, 2010 4

LaTeXSearch: 1M snippets in a searchable database

By in Computing tips, e-Science, Resources, Search, Writing

Tweet Springer announced last week the launch of LaTeXSearch.com, a free online service allowing users to search a huge database of LaTeX snippets from Springer journals and publications. This follows the launch of a similar service, a few months ago exposing Springer’s database of scientific images (which suggests a precise strategy on how to build [...]

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November 6, 2009 2

Blog-sized lit reviews

By in Computing tips, Hacks, Software, Writing

Tweet When I started my DPhil, I set myself assignments in order to cover the lit review in easy bite-sized chunks. This worked pretty well but the collated material was scattered across different Word documents, which meant that I couldn’t look at everything at one glance or search the content. However at about the same [...]

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August 25, 2009 1

Literate programming for talks: Beamer, Sweave and LaTeX

By in Computing tips, Software, Writing

Tweet The summer conference season is slowly drawing to a close and we can all put our feet up, right? After all, the papers are done and presented and it’s a least a couple of months before organizers want your abstracts for next year. But before you kick back and relax, it’s worth pausing for [...]

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