tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post3206022498958056862..comments2024-03-19T03:14:04.172-04:00Comments on Rabett Run: Citation Manager Death MatchEliRabetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07957002964638398767noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-32769632325207903582014-01-11T15:28:45.789-05:002014-01-11T15:28:45.789-05:00Zotero is all kinds of awesome.
HEre's how i...Zotero is all kinds of awesome. <br /><br />HEre's how it works:<br /><br />1- Download PDF paper that you like, drag and drop it into your Zotero window.<br />2- Right click, "retrieve metadata from PDF".<br />3- A full entry is automatically created in your Zotero bibliography, with author, title, journal, volume, et. You may also add notes to the entry, which is massively useful - whenever I import a paper I always add a note summarize the gist and main points.<br />4- BEst part: your entire library is automatically synced with the Zotero servers - including the PDF's of the papers you downloaded! So to transfer your entire library to any other computer, just install Zotero on it, log in and sync. Bam, your full library AND PDFs are automatically transferred.<br /><br />I still find it amazing that such a useful resource is available for free.totohttp://toto.club-med.sonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-37088734075542808232014-01-10T18:12:48.258-05:002014-01-10T18:12:48.258-05:00Amen to what ICBM Seitz said. Like those several ...Amen to what ICBM Seitz said. Like those several journals in which the deniers and merchants of doubt publish (no need to further identify), when they need to obfuscate about the greenhouse effect and thermodynamics and the real world, for example.Daniel Wirtnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-78423885072472613332014-01-10T14:51:50.382-05:002014-01-10T14:51:50.382-05:00Beware giving aid and comfort to journals whose ed...Beware giving aid and comfort to journals whose editors and editorial minions are loathe to do any editing. THE CLIMATE WARShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02578106673226403151noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-67280580145038418082014-01-10T09:55:27.222-05:002014-01-10T09:55:27.222-05:00I've used Mendeley, Zotero, and Endnote extens...I've used Mendeley, Zotero, and Endnote extensively. <br /><br />Zotero is, hands down, the easiest one to use for my work. Your mileage may vary, of course. Mendeley is very good for easily importing journal articles, but it is very cumbersome if you're working with other kinds of documents (white papers, World Bank reports, court decisions, newspaper and magazine articles, etc.) whereas for almost everything I use that's available online, Zotero makes it easy to import an accurate bibliographic record with one click.<br /><br />I have also found that with a bibliograpic database of many tens of thousands of documents, Mendeley's desktop program becomes very unreliable, so I have given up on that and mostly use the web interface.<br /><br />On the plus side, Mendeley is well suited to collaborative databases. I belong to two large multidisciplinary research projects that use Mendeley to manage large shared biblio databases. However, big shared databases is a paid option. We're paying about $1000 a year for this service.<br /><br />Since I use all three (although I rarely use Endnote anymore; only when I'm co-authoring something with someone who uses Endnote), I move stuff around between them all the time, and it's pretty straightforward to do so using the Export/Import RIS format, so people who want to see what works best for them can try them all out and transfer their reference collection between them very easily. Mendeley actually has an option to keep its own database synchronized with a Zotero database, but that has never worked reliably for me.Jonathan Gilligannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-66567582832027833572014-01-10T05:16:37.537-05:002014-01-10T05:16:37.537-05:00My daughter (doing PhD) pointed me to Mendeley ......My daughter (doing PhD) pointed me to Mendeley ... the cross platform sync (including native Linux) with offline capability and web page import has transformed my paper writing. And it's free! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16612221.post-70106098178061799462014-01-09T20:51:37.944-05:002014-01-09T20:51:37.944-05:00I'm also invested in Endnote, but have eyed Me...I'm also invested in Endnote, but have eyed Mendeley wondering if the grass is greener. Is it?<br /><br />I've already paid the money to endnote, so the cost doesn't bother me. upgrading from time to time isn't that expensive, though I suppose any cost may be too much if the same thing is available for free elsewhere.<br /><br />sorry if this appears twicecarrot eaternoreply@blogger.com