メタデータに基づく文献管理ソフトウエア: iPapers

抄録

The handling of referenced articles is one of the most typical tasks of researchers. Nonetheless, the work is important to the progress of research even though it involves monotonous, laborious, boring, and routine tasks. Recently, most publishers provide portable document format (PDF, Adobe Systems) versions of articles and researchers have to manage a large number of these files. In this paper, we introduce an application named iPapers to manage PDF files based on the reference metadata. The software provides a user interface with the ability to access articles using the name of the author, journal, MeSH keyword, and/or year of publication. These indices are automatically created using metadata. The software complements the metadata through open public databases, e. g. PubMed. Users can import the downloaded PDF files to the application with a ‘drag and drop’ operation. Users can also search for articles using PubMed, download a PDF file from a publisher's site, and import the downloaded file into the application. This application will help researchers to manage many article reprints in PDF format.