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es - Tricia Wang, Cloud Computing for Researchers - Mendeley Your Life!

Occasionally on Cultural Bytes I will review tools that help my ethnographer-self stay sane, organized and useful to society. I am confident to say that every researcher I know IS CURRENTLY dealing with what I am addressing below - citation and PDF nightmares. Today is the first day you can take a step towards freedom, organization, and access. In Russian, Mendeley means comforter of the mind. What better name for a product that is a comforter for researchers! ( here’s the founders’ explanation for the name, which I found out has nothing to do with the Russian meaning)

Papers : mekentosj.com : Software for Research

Read, Write, Cite.

Biblioscape - bibliography software for researchers to generate citations and a bibliography in APA, MLA, etc. - The best reference manager for Windows.

I have used reference database software for many years. RefWorks is the most intuitive and least problematic of any software that I have used. It permits me to capture the reference information for the online resources more effectively than other tools.

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EndNote - Bibliographies Made Easy

Citation Mgmt Tools - Citation and Paper Management Tools - LibGuides at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software

Comparison of reference management software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

web-based , referring to applications that may be installed on a web server (usually requiring MySQL or another database and PHP , Perl , Python , or some other language for web applications)

Nota Bene: Software for Academic Research and Writing

Expensive, but supposedly the mother of all writing and reference management for academics. by katebpc Feb 4

runs on Windows Linux Mac Docear (pronounced dog-ear ) is what we call an “academic literature suite”. It integrates everything you need to search, organize and create academic literature in a single application: a digital library, reference manager, PDF and file manager, note taking and mind mapping.And the best: Docear works seamlessly with many existing tools like Mendeley, Microsoft Word, and Foxit Reader. Docear is free and open source, based on Freeplane , funded by the German Federal Ministry of Technology and developed by scientists from around the world, among others from OvGU , and the University of California, Berkeley . + free and open source + use of standard formats (BibTeX, XML, Adobe PDF) + PDF meta data extraction + free backup space on our servers + useable in parallel with or instead of other reference managers (e.g.

Docear

A very intriguing reference manager- mindmapping and PDF management- and free and open source. by katebpc Mar 18

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Web and PDF Annotation | WebNotes

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This was a really interesting ref management program, but I didn't like that it was only online, i loved that highlights became automatic notes, read, highlight, and it's a note...I can't imagine getting all my PDFs into this and going through them all again, though....still, very interesting. by katebpc Jan 25

WizFolio - Joy of Knowledge Discovery

Exporting a list of references from supported websites is quick and easy. A new bibliographic exporter can generate and export bibliography in RIS, BibTeX format or in any one of the major citation styles.

Qiqqa - Free research paper management software

University Ninja (Website) "Qiqqa Makes Research Fun and Easy.

btw, danrholden, I found qiqqa's annotation tools a tad cumbersome-- especially compared to iPad's iAnnotate. by katebpc Jan 25

I love many things about this program- highlighting to note functionality (can't believe no one else has done this in the age of iAnnotate, etc.[correction: more and more programs are doing this- ReadCube, WebNotes, diigo (though it's not a reference manager]). Unfortunately, there are still too many bugs- its cumbersome to use, slow....not worth switching yet. by katebpc Jan 25

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readcube

Ok, tried, it has a way to go to be a full reference manager. And the annotation abilities that I hoped it had aren't there yet. No reports yet...can't really recommend it as a full reference manager. Where it does excel is speed and reading- it imported 53 references in a matter of minutes. It's so CLEAN compared to qiqqa. Makes a great PDF manager. by katebpc Jan 26

The newest reference manager. Haven't had a chance to try it out, but looks promising, the great things about Mendeley and more- the highlight to notes feature, etc. the test will be how well it handles reports. Also an iPad version of some kind would be great- indeed, it's planned. So great PDF organization, annotation support, planned for syncing to the cloud and iPad app. If all this stuff is implemented, this would be the best ref. manager out there....! by katebpc Jan 25

Today, Digital Science announced an investment in startup Labtiva . And Labtiva released a “community preview” of their reference manager ReadCube .

Two reviews of new reference manager ReadCube | Gobbledygook

Feature Requests: Top (103 ideas) – ReadCube Customer Support

Free reference manager and PDF organizer | Mendeley

Mendeley now performs one way sync with zotero...I prefer zotero...still looking for the perfect system. Still limiting I generating reports. What researcher asks for a notes report one reference at a time?! by katebpc Jan 5

PaperCritic- post about curating your own journal articles with reviews

There has been quite a bit of press lately about the peer review process and access to journal articles, namely, how these are controlled by some of the bigger-name journals (at great expense to libraries and users). The point of this post is not to argue the rights and wrongs of review and access of journal articles. What I’d like to highlight here is a complementary service to Mendeley that can help you curate your own subsection of journal articles, including comments and reviews to and from fellow academics who weren’t invited to review the articles the first time around. PaperCritic is a open publication review tool that uses the Mendeley API in order to facilitate commentary and review of journal articles. In short, you can connect it to your Mendeley account and then comment on articles publicly, including rating them on readability, quality of argument, and other fields.

PaperCritic | Review any scientific publication

Here at PaperCritic, we find that science should be as open as possible and that everyone should be able to review each other's work, not just the elected few.

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I know exactly what you mean...I'm beginning to realize less is better than more...so I'm trying to settle on 1 "reference" management and one "bookmark" saver.
Bookmarks: right now my bookmark saver is pearltrees or diigo- that's why I wish we could link diigo and pearltrees better.
Reference management: I save more academic references to zotero or Mendeley or citeulike (haven't decided which :( ).

Then there are notes- evernote, springpad, catch.com, simplenote...Evernote is a must. I'm starting to save more things to Evernote...I reserve Springpad only for places or my wishlist because they're more social....if any one has comments, I'd love to hear about it. by katebpc Feb 4

Thanks for all the comments about citavi, I'll have another look at it. BTW, has anyone used Nota Bene? It's expensive but supposedly very good.... by katebpc Feb 2

After leaving zotero for endnote then Mendeley, I am back to trying to get everything back into zotero. Great for webpages, making new notes associated with a specific reference, generating reports of notes across all references. Zotero has improved a ton with zotfile and someone has developed an app. called zotpad for iPad (pending approval). by katebpc Jan 25