How to find Scientific Research Service Providers for OneNote

[Roger270]

I would like to be able to organize my research in Biology and Environmental
Science more efficiently using OneNote. There are currently no service
providers for these or any other of the sciences in Microsoft Office; however
I do use a powertoy to copy web pages into OneNote, but it doesn't do a good
job of copying the pages accurately.

If anyone has suggestions I would be appreciative.

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP]

Could you elaborate a bit on what you're looking to do? Is it simply a
matter of the content not formatting properly?

 

[Roger270]

I would like to categorize and organize by subject and date articles on
environmental and biological studies being done around the world. While I
can copy a web page to OneNote, it also copies the menus, graphics,
advertising; i.e., everything on the page that I then have to edit manually.

The other issue is that the service providers that I found in Marketplace
are very limited and generalized; while I'm looking for results of documented
studies on the environment and Biology; primarily. I do have access to a
considerable number of universities and their publications; however, these
are not generally available to the public. Having service providers that
would enable access to research results would go a long way toward dispelling
the confusion about what is actually happening to the environment, help
students at all levels learn more about the Earth sciences, and provide open
access to scienctific studies as contrasted to highly sensationalized media
pieces.

The goal is to collect and collate documented and bona fide research results
to provide better insight into what is actually happening to the environment
to the non-scientific speaking public. FYI: I am a grad student working on
a PhD in Environmental Science/Biology....

Thanks,
Roger

 

[Rainald Taesler]

Roger270 shared these words of wisdom:

Which tool is this?

I would like to categorize and organize by subject and date articles
on environmental and biological studies being done around the world.
While I can copy a web page to OneNote, it also copies the menus,
graphics, advertising; i.e., everything on the page that I then have
to edit manually.

Yes, most often web-pages are landing in ON in a scrambled way.
This depends on the way the web-pages are constructed.

What really helps to leave menus, ads etc. is to mark the stuff you
want to copy over to ON and the click on the "Send to OneNote" in the
icon bar. Then only the marked stuff is imported.

Rainald

 

[Erik Sojka (MVP)]

I assume he's talking about the Research Task Pane. (Roger - correct me if
I'm assuming incorrectly!)

This list is a little old (it mentions Groove as a third party app!) but it
may be a starting point.
http://www.microsoft.com/net/office_directory.mspx

If a vendor of a research tool doesn't support being in the Office Research
Pane, maybe you can ask them to consider it? ISTR most of the preferred
providers which are linked to directly from Office are free, but there
should be other for-pay services which do support the Research TP but are
not listed on the "free" list.

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP]

Ah. Have you tried just selecting the content you want and
dragging/dropping that specific content to OneNote? That should, if you can
select cleanly, leave off the menus and ads and such.

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com