[Librarian] Librarian V1.3 released

[Martin Kucej]

Dear colleague:

This is to notify you that Librarian version 1.3 has been released.
This version comes with a couple of new features including improved
download of data from PubMed and ability to add PDF articles to more
categories. Also Librarian removes line breaks if you paste info
into the upload form directly from PDF file.

It is possible now to identify articles in PubMed according to PMIDs
(you can enter more IDs separated by comma). The search than displays
titles and first author. The next screen enables you to read over the
article annotations and preselect most suitable categories. This
selection is transferred into the final Upload form. The upload
form contains multiple select field for categories. To select more
categories you must Ctrl+Click or Command+Click on Mac.

The older versions of Librarian (1.1, 1.1a, and 1.2) can be upgraded
using 'Upgrade' release without reinstallation.

http://bioinformatics.org/librarian/downloads.php

This is probably the last release of the first generation of
Librarian. A 2.0 series is planned for this summer and should include
the abilities to add complete citation information, generate simple
lists of citations in plain text, BibTex and maybe other formats,
so that this lists can be imported into Citation Managers.

Later, it is also planned to add the ability to search words in full
text not only in PubMed data. This has a few drawbacks though. It
will require at least MySQL version 4.0. The search will ignore words
of less than four letters, and frequent English words. Finally, the
full text search will not be possible in PDFs, which are copy
protected (such as EMBO Journal). Let me know, if you would welcome
this feature anyway.

Sincerely Yours,
Martin Kucej
Department of Biochemistry
Comenius University
Mlynska dolina CH-1
Bratislava 84215
Slovak Republic