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This paper presents a creativity support tool, called FreePub,to collect and organize scientifi*c material using mindmaps. Mindmaps are visual, graph-based representations of concepts, ideas, notes, tasks, etc. They generally take a hierarchical or tree branch format, with ideas branching into their subsections. FreePub supports creativity cycles. A user starts such a cycle by setting up her domain of interest using mindmaps. Then, she can browse mindmaps and launch search tasks to gather relevant publications from several data sources. FreePub, besides publications, identifies helpful supporting material (e.g., blog posts, presentations). All retrieved information from FreePub can be imported and organized in mindmaps. FreePub has been fully implemented on top of FreeMind, a popular open-source, mindmapping tool.
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Dalamagas, T., Farmakakis, T., Maragkakis, M. et al. FreePub: Collecting and Organizing Scienti*c Material Using Mindmaps. Nat Prec (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/npre.2010.5432.1
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/npre.2010.5432.1