[Papyrus-L] Links to References

[Blackall, Pat]

Raisa

Thanks for the comments re links.

I have adopted your system until Dave can organise Papyrus to have the live
link!!


Pat Blackall

Pat Blackall
Animal Research Institute
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	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Raisa Deber [SMTP:raisa.deber at utoronto.ca]
	Sent:	Sunday, 10 June 2001 1:41
	To:	papyrus-l at rsd.com
	Subject:	Re: [Papyrus-L] Links to References

	At 12:13 PM 6/9/2001 +1000, you wrote:
	>Folks
	>
	>I have recently had the opportunity to observe colleagues who have
switched
	>from Papyrus to Endnote.
	>
	>While there are many issues surrounding this switch, a distinct
advantage
	>that I have observed for Endnote is the capacity to link the
Endnote
	>reference to an electronic copy of the actual article (either as
file on a
	>hard disc or a Web page). Once a reference has been found in
Endnote, you
	>can jump across and open the relevant reference.
	>
	>Is there some way of achieving the same result with Papyrus?

	It may not be quite what you're describing, but we file all of our 
	references by Papyrus number.  The reference itself contains the
full URL 
	for web pages; we can copy this into the browser if the moon is in
the 
	correct phase (aka depending upon the operating system being used
and its 
	use of the clipboard).  However, in our experience, links tend to
break 
	frequently, so we usually need hard copies and/or electronic copies
on our 
	hard drive for important material.  As far as files on hard disk,
we've 
	recently started naming these with the pap reference number (so,
file 123 
	would be given the name pap123.pdf).   Our data base is being used
by two 
	researchers and a number of students, so we've started using
keywords 
	starting with LOCATED- to tell us who (and where) specific material
is 
	housed.  We accordingly assign the keyword LOCATED-PDF to tell us
that we 
	have an electronic version.  No hot links, but a rather near
facsimile.
	What I'm waiting for is easier handling of long file names - some of
us 
	give long names (e.g., "chapter 2 of my thesis version 1.doc") which
don't 
	differ in the first 6 characters, meaning that Papyrus can't tell
chapter 2 
	from chapter 3, let alone version 1 from version 2.  We work around
by 
	renaming these files, but it can be a nuisance.  Let alone the
refusal of 
	Windows to let us shift to and from Papyrus using Alt-Esc.  I'm
becoming 
	more aware of these issues as I train our students on how to use the

	database.  Dave - any progress on the Windows version?
	Hope this helps
	Raisa Deber


	
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