April 5th, 2013 by Joeran [Docear] We are glad to announce that we, again, will offer a paid internship in cooperation with the German Academic Exchange service (DAAD). If you are an undergraduate student, interested in software engineering or statistics, and coming from the Greece, Italy, Portugal, or Spain, get yourself started and do an 8-12 weeks internship in summer or […]
March 27th, 2013 by Joeran [Docear] The 9th Beta of Docear is available for free download. It contains no new features but several bug fixes and feature improvements. One improvement includes the removal of line breaks in imported annotations. So far, when you highlighted text over several lines in a PDF, Docear imported the lines breaks of the highlighted text which […]
March 21st, 2013 by Joeran [Docear] A few month ago we announced to develop an add-on allowing researchers to collaborate on the same data. Well, we haven’t finished this completely yet but the first step is done. In the past few month we developed an online viewer that allows you to view your backuped mind maps in your web browser. Right […]
March 12th, 2013 by Joeran [Docear] We are experiencing a very high server load due to several reasons (many people are using our services, we are doing some extensive research analyses, etc.). Therefore we decided to deactivate the metadata retrieval and recommendations for a while, hopefully only a few days. We will let you know as soon as the services are […]
February 18th, 2013 by Joeran [Docear] Today we released Docear4Word 1.01. The add-on for Microsoft Word allows you to manage your Docear references (and any other references stored as BibTeX) directly within Microsoft Word. Version 1.01 includes the following changes. Download it here!
Added warning message if a BibTex file is considered corrupt, rather than just ignoring it. (#740, #692) BibTex […]
February 4th, 2013 by Joeran [Docear] A while ago we released Docear with automatic metadata extraction. Several users asked us if this functionality was also available as stand-alone tool. Therefore, we decided to create a little tool which we name “Docear’s PDF Inspector”. Docear’s PDF Inspector extracts titles from PDF files not from the PDF’s metadata but from its full-text. More […]
January 25th, 2013 by Joeran [Docear] Just a quick notice: Since a while Docear can automatically retrieve bibliographic information for PDF files. So far, only 15 requests per day per users were possible. We increased this limit to 50. If you have not yet tried this feature, do it, it saves a lot of time!
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January 19th, 2013 by Joeran [Docear] As a Docear user you probably did some research before you decided to use Docear and maybe you stumbled upon the reference manager Mendeley. Mendeley definitely has some nice features and made it to one of the top reference management tools in the past few years (besides the fact that they don’t use mind maps […]
January 19th, 2013 by Joeran [Docear] Docear4Word is an add-on that allows managing your Docear references in Microsoft Word. It uses the citation style language (CSL), an open XML-based language to describe the formatting of citations and bibliographies. Not only Docear is using CSL but also other reference managers such as Zotero (who initiated the development of CSL) and Mendeley and […]
January 15th, 2013 by Joeran [Docear] Beta 8 of Docear is available for download. There is no major new feature but a few bug fixes. In addition, we merged Docear’s source code with the latest version of Freeplane (1.2.21 beta) which includes many new features and bug fixes not listed here.
Feature improvements include: #672 Create BibTeX keys automatically when database […]
December 6th, 2012 by Joeran [Docear] We are glad to announce that we, again, will offer a paid internship in cooperation with the German Academic Exchange service (DAAD). If you are an undergraduate student, interested in software engineering or statistics, and coming from the US, UK or Canada, get yourself started and do an 8-12 weeks internship in summer or autumn […]
November 21st, 2012 by Joeran [Docear] Beta 7 is out and has one major new feature: (semi-)automatic extraction of bibliographic metadata from PDF files. That means, when creating a new reference, you don’t have to type everything manually but bibliographic information such as title, author, year, journal, etc. is all provided to you automatically. Here is how it works: Do a […]
October 29th, 2012 by Joeran [Docear] Last year in July we met the core developers of the mind mapping software Freeplane in Munich (Docear’s mind mapping component is based on Freeplane). At that meeting we decided that Freeplane and Docear would closely cooperate. Now, more than a year later it was time to meet again and discuss the next big steps […]
October 22nd, 2012 by Joeran [Docear] It’s a while ago that we started crawling the Web for academic PDFs to index them and use them for Docear’s research paper recommender system. Meanwhile, we have collected quite a few PDFs. Unfortunately, in a foreseeable future, our servers’ disks will be full and the load of our servers is too high already (that’s […]
October 18th, 2012 by Joeran [Docear] There is amazing news – Docear cooperates with the HTW Berlin (Berlin’s university of applied sciences for technology and economy). We will supervise the Master’s projects of five students (Alexander, Florian, Julius, Michael, and Paul). Other than at most other universities, the student’s goal is not to do some theoretical work but gaining some real-world […]
September 28th, 2012 by Joeran [Docear] To optimize Docear’s research paper recommender system I was looking for an extensive stop word list – a list of words that is ignored for the analysis of your mind maps and research papers (for instance ‘the’, ‘and’, ‘or’, …). It’s easy to find some lists for some languages but I couldn’t find one extensive […]
September 21st, 2012 by Joeran [Docear] As you may know, Docear offers literature recommendations and as you may know further, it’s part of my PhD to find out how to make these recommendations as good as possible. To accomplish this I need to know what a ‘good’ recommendation is. So far we have been using Click Through Rates (CTR) to evaluate […]
September 13th, 2012 by Joeran [Docear] Today I was giving a presentation about Docear. Among others I wanted to show how positive many researchers respond to the concept of Docear. So I assembled a little picture with quotes about Docear (SciPlore MindMapping respectively) (see figure below).
After the presentation one of the attendees told me, he was surprised to not […]
September 3rd, 2012 by Joeran [Docear] For students and researchers reference management probably is the most tiring task in their daily work-routine. They have to re-type and format bibliographic information again and again, for each paper, assignment or thesis. This is particularly annoying if you need to change citation styles. As a student this might happen because your supervisor changes his […]
September 3rd, 2012 by Joeran [Docear] Docear 1.0 Beta 6 is available for download. There are quite a few improvements and new features. The major change is a small icon to refresh the incoming mind map. Instead of selecting the entry in the menu, you can just click on the icon to get a new list of all your PDFs. In […]
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