research tools
< carinavr
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
Impact and Applications
March 22, 2012 by ingermewburn
MS-Word version -- PDF Version
Conference delegates bemoan funding system that breeds 'networks of mediocrity'. Paul Jump reports
Who enjoys the fastest internet? South Koreans do, according to Ookla- the average South Korean Internet connection is more than 3x faster than the average connection in the US. Eastern European countries like Latvia and Lithuania are also at the top of the pool.
Zotero ( pron.: / z oʊ ˈ t ɛr oʊ / ) is free and open-source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials (such as PDF files). Notable features include web browser integration, online syncing, generation of in-text citations, footnotes and bibliographies, as well as integration with the word processors Microsoft Word , LibreOffice , OpenOffice.org Writer and NeoOffice . It is produced by the Center for History and New Media of George Mason University (GMU). [ edit ] History [ edit ] Zotero 1.0
RefWorks is a web-based commercial reference management software package. It is produced by RefWorks-COS, a business unit of ProQuest LLC . RefWorks was founded in 2001 and was marketed by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts from 2002 until being acquired by ProQuest in 2008. [ 1 ]
EndNote is a commercial reference management software package, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. It is produced by Thomson Reuters . [ edit ] Features EndNote groups citations into "libraries" with the file extension *.enl and a corresponding *.data folder. There are several ways to add a reference to a library: manually, exporting, importing, connecting from EndNote.
Mendeley is a desktop and web program for managing and sharing research papers, [ 2 ] discovering research data and collaborating online. It combines Mendeley Desktop, a PDF and reference management application (available for Windows, Mac and Linux) with Mendeley Web, an online social network for researchers. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Mendeley requires the user to store all basic citation data on its servers - storing copies of documents is at the user's discretion. Upon registration, Mendeley provides the user with 1 GB of free web storage space, which is upgradeable at a cost.