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A quick overview of the available reference managers (zotero,
mendeley, endnote)Jose Quesada
5-5-2010NOTE: reference managers change all
the time; this information may be obsolete by the time you read this.
Advantages for you• Should be faster that doing things by hand
• Reformatting a paper for a different journal
• Never have to think 'where do I have last cited that paper... so I can copy-paste the reference’
• Removing a paragraph will remove the references too
• If you fix a typo on your db, it will fix the references on all papers that contain it
• Good for sharing papers and citations in a research group
Advantages long-term
• Metadata that travels with the paper. Will make papers easy to find and utilize
• Current tools are trying to do it ‘the hard way’:
– Scholar, Citeseer: Parsing author, title, etc out of the papers that we academics have in our homepages, and making them searchable for the rest of the word
– Mendeley: Parsing author, title, etc out the papers on your computer and make them searchable for you
Equilibrium: shareability vs. functionality
• Desktop reference managers– they live on the desktop
and integrate well with writing tools
• Social bookmarking systems (citeUlike, connotea)– they are webpages, like
delicious for academics
annotations
• When you highlight or add a note to a paper, it’s also metadata
• This is not likely to be shared
Advantages– rapid release cycle– Metadata stays in the
cloud– offers the best
‘facebook-like’ features– best social search– Innovative tools for
measuring impact: ReaderRank
– API– Annotations are included
• Disadvantages– Automatic recognition
often fails, and the manual fixing may be more trouble than it’s worth
– Crashes quite often– May end up sharing
more information than you are comfortable with
• Advantages– open source, free– best paper detection
online (even amazon books)
– Great integration with word AND LyX, openoffice
– Metadata stays in the cloud
– offers ‘facebook-like’ features, more to come
• disadvantages– lives inside Firefox. UI is
not as good as standalone apps
– search is slow. – The more references
you have, the slower it feels
– Less templates than endNote
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