ReadCube Intro. Products: Tools and Services for Science. Group blogs: BMJ Web Development Blog » Blog Archive » ReadCube: just another reference manager? 26 Jul, 12 | by Claire Bower, Digital Comms Manager, @clairebower Last month, ReadCube (a free, cross-platform reference manager) announced a host of new features in the form of ‘enhanced PDFs’.
Articles published by Nature, PLOS and Wiley can now be enhanced with active in-line references and automatic fetching of supplementary data. ReadCube was launched at the end of 2011 by Labtiva, having received investment from Digital Science, a division of Macmillan Publishing Ltd. Reviews of the product have focused on its ease of use and integrated search on PubMed and Google Scholar. Free Reference Manager - Academic Software For Research.