[Papyrus-L] Migration from Papyrus

[Haviland, David L]

Ane:

That is where you have me.   Being in the biological sciences I didn't
find a need for the notecards and therein may lie why my transfer was
seamless.   However, I could see their use in the library sciences or
law.   I only need the biggies, AU,TI,Jou, Vol, etc and abstract, and
I'll add my on keywords as the MeSH headings are sometimes counter
intuitive to what I would search on.   With that framework, importing
was easy in to RM.   RM allows a file field which is where I put my link
to the directory on my hard drive for the associated PDF.   

This probably doesn't help much.

David   

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David L. Haviland, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Immunology
Institute of Molecular Medicine, R637I
Univ. of Texas, Houston - HSC
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[mailto:papyrus-l-bounces at ResearchSoftwareDesign.com] On Behalf Of Ane
Ortega
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 9:35 AM
To: Papyrus Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Papyrus-L] Migration from Papyrus

David, when you (and others who have reported successful migration into
a 
new system) talk about semaless transfer of records from one database to
the 
other, I would be interested to know what happened to the notecards
attached 
to your records, that is, how does the new system identify them and what

does it do with them, how and where does it store them? This was, in
fact, 
my other main query with regard to a possible migration, I'm glad you 
brought it up, thank you.

Ane
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Haviland, David L" <David.L.Haviland at uth.tmc.edu>
To: "Papyrus Discussion List" <papyrus-l at ResearchSoftwareDesign.com>
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 2:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Papyrus-L] Migration from Papyrus


Begrudgingly, I eventually drifted from Papyrus when I simply could not
get 
it working under XP very well.  The new versions of Word and Wordperfect

were not compatible with the last version of Papyrus.  I knew from prior

experience, before I found Papyrus, that Endnote was *not* on the "A"
list 
of choices.  Primarily, because in the early 90's when I tried Endnote,
they 
were not compatible with Wordperfect and had no plans to be.  I
eventually 
settled on Reference Manager and for the most part I have been pretty
happy 
with it.   Transferring my PAP data base to RM was seamless.  My only
bone 
of contention with RM is that RM tries to get you to run your searches 
through its engine rather than my running PubMed and importing the text 
format of the references I want.   I do it both ways.   I've found RM 
compatible with Word and Wordperfect and I consider it an "acceptable" 
alternative.

David Haviland
UT-Houston


-----Original Message-----
From: papyrus-l-bounces at ResearchSoftwareDesign.com on behalf of Rodgers,

John R.
Sent: Fri 4/13/2007 6:12 AM
To: Papyrus Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Papyrus-L] Migration from Papyrus

Richard's comments point up a difficulty for those of us who co-author
or 
otherwise shared e-texts.  This is the same problem that made me give up

WordPerfect- no one else in my circle uses it.  Searching using Endnote
is a 
problem for me because I have a very large database, but it is no
problem
for the students I teach who for the most part have small databases. 
Similarly, when I co-author I need to use a common reference managing 
program.  I imagine that many of those who have managed to hang on to
using 
Papyrus are sole authors.?


John R. Rodgers, Ph.D.
Department of Immunology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas 77030
713-798-3903
fax: 713-798-3700



Personally I use Emacs both for writing the documents and for
manipulating the BibTeX files but there are Java based programs that
will do it.

Of course, it does require learning LaTeX, but its much better than
using Word anyway, IMHO

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Richard Fieldsend
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