It's true, Citation Manager is software for institutions to provide citation-management services to their members, rather than a package for personal citation management. Managing circulation is another problem; you might want to look into LibraryThing (an online commercial personal library management system) or, if you're a Mac user, try Delicious Library.
http://www.delicious-monster.com/
I haven't gone into these in detail, but my sense is that what you gain in collection management, you lose in full-featured academic citation formatting.
There's some interesting work going in the OpenOffice group on developing the citation management system to handle citations the way academics need to, in a solid standards-based way that allows interoperability with other bibliographic systems. There's lots of information on their wiki:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic_Software_and_Stan dards_Information
Peter
-----Original Message----- From: Daniel O'Donnell [mailto:caedmon@uleth.ca] Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 9:21 AM To: Binkley, Peter Cc: Digital Medievalist Community mailing list Subject: RE: [dm-l] Refworks
Peter,
This is primarily library software... though it looks VERY good from the screenshots and in my case, I've been using my citation manager also as a circulation manager (it's a long story, but... I was getting tired of swearing I wouldn't lend books, doing it anyway, and then losing them, so I dicided instead to LoC them, but card pockets in the back and make people "sign them out"--works like a charm).
Do you know/does anybody here use this as a personal citation manager?
-d
On Fri, 2006-24-02 at 11:22 -0700, Binkley, Peter wrote:
An open-source alternative to RefWorks is Citation Manager, part of
the
reSearcher suite:
http://researcher.sfu.ca/index.php/cm
It doesn't have all of RefWorks' features but it is quite good.
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Binkley, Peter