Hey Ali and others who are interested, I've been working towards launching a startup called Bibdex ( http://www.bibdex.com ) for a little while now. I want to help all research-oriented fields to sift through the large number of publications. It's amazing how many articles and manuscripts are published every day, not to mention blog posts and social commentary. Unlike the average person's surfing habits online, profe…
Sunir, If you are not heavily invested in the name "Bibdex" for your company, you might want to look at changing the name because "BibDesk" ( http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/ ) already exists as an usable product organizing publications. Specifically, the problem is that I would type/write/search for "bibdesk" when I hear "bibdex" and be rewarded by a product in the same market. -J
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#61Yes, thanks for the feedback. As with all things, good names are in short supply. I've learnt that it's a very common thing for grad students to build citation management software, and I fell into that trap as well.