Very nice article from Cal at Study Hacks today on managing your resources when undertaking a major paper.
Study Hacks » Monday Master Class: How to Build a Paper Research Database
In this article, I’m going to teach you how to build a simplified Branch-style Paper Research Database using Microsoft Excel. I’ll tell you how to format it, populate it, and use it to structure your writing.
He uses MS Excel for this, which is easily accessible for all students in the forms via OpeOffice for everything, or Numbers for Mac users (and a number of variations there of).
Also, though not exactly using this method, one could make use of Zotero (the firefox extension) and I often use a very similar method using the Mac database program Yojimbo (though easily done in programs like OneNote, DevonThink, etc.)
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