It's still in a buggy and in a somewhat raw state. For those of you who are adventurous I'd recommend logging in to http://citehouse.dynalias.com:11795/. This will give you a good idea of the central concept, workflow and layout of CiteHouse. There are a few things that it really needs and will soon have:
- Citation management! At the moment there is no importing of articles. The only way to get your articles in to your account is to ask me. Having a good range of citation management tools is high up on my list of priorities for obvious reasons. I will most likely write a browser plugin that will allow you to import articles from your favourite academic search engine/database. And an upload feature so you can upload your EndNote/Zotero libraries. Synching with existing applications is also on the cards.
- Searching your personal library. There will be operators you can use such as "author:anderson" or "modified:this-week", and the ability to save these as a dynamic search.
- For each article in library, ability to click on link and get: (1) references contained within article, (2) citations to article (3) related articles...or even better, (4) for a particular set of articles, recommended articles that are relevant to the set...which is a great way of becoming familiar with a new field in a short period of time.
- Some random numbers will appear in the drop down boxes...ignore these...they are a stop-gap measure.
- Beautiful layout.
It is incomplete....there is a huge amount of design decisions that need to be made. I need feedback and help in making these decisions. Obviously, I'd like to get feedback early-on in order to make the right decisions before I start to polish CiteHouse. I appreciate any and all feedback...but there are two types of feedback that are really worth a lot (a) general comments about the core features, and (b) a list of features you'd like to see such that you'd use CiteHouse everyday.
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