Zotero group

[jamesr]

Zotero is an add-on for firefox that lets you organise an search references to papers, books articles etc. I just realised it has a group feature for creating collaborative libraries of references. So I thought I’d create one.

Zotero Focus Fusion Group

I have added a random selection of papers from my library – some more relevant that others.

I appreciate most most of this is highly technical, and so not necessarily of general interest. Also a lot of the actual papers will be behind a paywall for those without institutional or other access to the specific journal sites. However it seems a reasonable way to gather a catalog of reference material.

[Brian H]

jamesr wrote: Zotero is an add-on for firefox that lets you organise an search references to papers, books articles etc. I just realised it has a group feature for creating collaborative libraries of references. So I thought I’d create one.

Zotero Focus Fusion Group

I have added a random selection of papers from my library – some more relevant that others.

I appreciate most most of this is highly technical, and so not necessarily of general interest. Also a lot of the actual papers will be behind a paywall for those without institutional or other access to the specific journal sites. However it seems a reasonable way to gather a catalog of reference material.

Great start! Was that selection really ‘random’? 😉

[jamesr]

The group is set “Public, Closed” ie. anyone can view the group, but to add papers to it you need an invite to join. I have send messages to a few who I have email addresses for, but if anyone else want to contribute send me a message and I’ll add you.

[Rezwan]

Thanks James!

I’ve joined, and added a link to the website.

What are things we can do to get good use out of this?

[Breakable]

While physics papers are probably above my level, I would suggest for others to read a classical book about scientific investigation, to get some background as well as to enjoy some interesting anecdotes and generalization of the investigation process: “The Art of Scientific Investigation”
http://www.archive.org/details/artofscientifici00beve

While those of you in the process might thing you know everything you need already, I think you might find some supportive ideas there still. It is public domain, so you can download it. I have an OCR version, but is not fully cleaned up yet (need to crop the edges a little).

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