Reference managers increasingly have to handle other forms of scholarly content, from presentation slides to blog posts and web links.
Many reference managers now have integrated PDF viewers (sometimes with annotation tools) for scholarly papers. A number of these newer tools are web-based in order to facilitate this collaboration, and some of them are also available for mobile devices. Most of the newer reference managers focus on the collaborative aspects of collecting references and writing manuscripts. In the past 5 years, we have seen the arrival of a large number of new tools with greatly expanded functionality. Collecting, reading, and integrating these references into a manuscript is a time-consuming process, and reference managers have facilitated this process for more than 25 years. Thus the key inspiration behind the designing of the proposed add-on is to enhance the functionality of Jab Ref by reducing the complexities involve in handling academic literature and simplifying the process.Ĭitations of relevant works are an integral part of all scholarly papers. Accompanying Bib TeX entries with scholarly objects is really important because it can be easily handled by the end-users and can be read automatically by many repositories and several other tools. Keeping in view the fact that scholarly objects basically represent research output in the form of metadata, parsed contents and citations. And it has the special features of content reading, metadata extraction, citation parsing, relevant Bib TeX entry fetching and linking of In-Cite and Out-Cite information. The proposed extension of Jab Ref basically performs the management, organization and processing of academic papers. Thus to smooth the progress of researchers, scholarly articles organizer is introduced in this paper as an extension of already developed open source reference manager Jab Ref. Being a researcher, management of references is one of the most complicated aspects. Almost all reference managers support extraction of metadata from articles but unfortunately very few provide facility of extraction of full-text from articles, their sub sections search and parsing of citations. To ease the process of literature management and to facilitate researchers, several reference managers have been developed offering different features.
Effective management of bibliographic information and citations of relevant work in an appropriate manner is considered as an integral part of all scholarly articles.