Creating a Bibliography....Limits

[renormalised (Carl)]

Just spent the last few minutes gathering citations for a bibliography on exoplanets from arXiv.org. Found 788 references but could only gather 570 before the site stopped me from going any further. It probably though I was a data miner!!!!!. Which, in a way, I was. However, they will come in handy for future reference and just for reading. At least, now, I don't have to go hunting around looking for papers. I can click on the citation and go straight to the paper to download it

If you're ever doing a degree, grab yourself bibliography software. It makes searching for reference materials so much easier.

[Nortilus (Josh)]

Im thinking of doing a Degree in physics next year. What is this software you are speaking of? Links

[renormalised (Carl)]

Originally Posted by Nortilus

Im thinking of doing a Degree in physics next year. What is this software you are speaking of? Links

Do you have a Mac or a PC??

[Nortilus (Josh)]

PC....pfft at MAC...lol

[renormalised (Carl)]

Originally Posted by Nortilus

PC....pfft at MAC...lol

Macs are better

http://miktex.org/

http://www.latexeditor.org/

http://www.biblioscape.com/biblioexpress.htm

The first two are also for generating LaTeX documents, which will come in handy for you at some stage in your uni studies. The third one is a standalone bibliography/citation manager which is free to download and I would grab it as soon as I started my uni course, if I were you.

[EcoRI (Greg)]

I use endnote! Makes referencing so easy, once you have your library sorted out. You can also choose the referencing style you want and it does it all for you. Wish I had a copy of it years back, would have saved me many hours of typing!

Cheers

[higginsdj]

I use an application called 'Papers' for the Mac, and iPod Touch/phone/iPad. It has built in search engines, reader and note taker.

Just beware with papers from arXiv.org. Anyone can publish through them, so a great many papers are nothing but rubbish. Ideally find the people known in the field then look for papers that they authored/co authored.

Cheers