From: Chris Dubois <chris.dubois@gmail.com>
Date: August 23, 2005 6:50:31 PM PDT
To: Ami Radunskaya <aer04747@pomona.edu>
Subject: Quick "How to" on Jabref and Web of Science

For future reference:

A quick How To for Web of Science and Jabref: 

Downloading Jabref:
Go to http://jabref.sourceforge.net
Under "Latest File Releases" click Download.
Under "jabref" click the file in the left column that ends with ".jar"
 In my case it was the top entry.
Under the "Download" column click the icon in the row for Arizona (or wherever).
To start the program, just double click on this file wherever you
saved it.  It should be platform independent (which means it works on
Macs and PCs and Linux alike).

To put articles into your database:
Go to library website: voxlibris.claremont.edu
Under "eResearch Tools" click Databases.
Under "By Subject" click Mathematics.
Click "Web of Science"
Click General Search.
Under "Topic" I entered the following:
cellular automat* AND cancer
This will search for papers that are relevant to cellular automata (or
automaton or automatons, etc) and cancer.
The first three items I see are:
1. 	Alarcon T, Byrne HM, Maini PK
A multiple scale model for tumor growth 
MULTISCALE MODELING & SIMULATION 3 (2): 440-475 2005 
Times Cited: 0 
  Get this item from The Libraries of The Claremont Colleges 	
 2. 	Spillman WB, Robertson JL, Huckle WR, et al.
Complexity, fractals, disease time, and cancer 
PHYSICAL REVIEW E 70 (6): Art. No. 061911 Part 1 DEC 2004 
Times Cited: 0 
  Get this item from The Libraries of The Claremont Colleges 	
 3. 	Ribba B, Alarcon T, Marron K, et al.
The use of hybrid cellular automaton models for improving cancer therapy 
LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 3305: 444-453 2004 	

(To try and retrieve the full text of these articles, click the green
button (if there is one) underneath the article's entry.)
I want all of these in my database, so I click the checkbox next to
each entry and in the "Mark" box on the right hand side, I click
"Submit Marks."
You can continue to submit marks as you find relevant articles.
Once finished, click the icon at the top of the page that says "Marked List."
Under "Step 1" check the items you would like included in your
database.  I always click "Abstract" and "Keywords" since those are
nice to have.
Under "Step 2" click "Save to File"
In the popup, select "Save to Disk" and click "OK."  In my case it was
called "savedrecs.txt"
Save it on the Desktop or something.
Now open JabRef, and under "File" and under "Import" select "Autodetect Format."
Find your file (e.g. savedrecs.txt) and click "Open"
Click OK.
Under "File" select "Save."  You now have your bibliography database. 
Double click on an entry to ensure you have all the correct
information.  When you want to append articles to a previous database,
do the above and then copy and paste the new entries into your old
database.