 Zotero, Mendeley & Endnote are the top three tools
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Introduction
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General comments
- Zotero seems to have gained more traction in academic libraries because it is easy to use "user-friendly" and intuitive; introductory videos help users to learn basic tasks quickly
- Zotero is completely open source; the documentation at Zotero.org can be used for teaching; provides community to support software
- Zotero is recommended by institutions such as MIT, Stanford and Yale; best reference management tool at CiteFest
- Because it is open and extensible, it is a resource for students; provides a way to contribute to open-source communities
- Zotero project was developed by scholars with a commitment to openness; Zotero makes no claim of ownership or control over software
- UMich’s School of Information got funding to launch an information literacy game, Bibliobouts, built around Zotero
- Licensed platforms (RefWorks, EndNote) provide users with similar services but license ends as students graduate
- Zotero is committed to data portability / interoperability through open standards; vendors have vested interest in locking users into proprietary formats & licenses
- Zotero makes it easy to migrate data to and from other tools
- Mendeley grabs citation information from pdfs via Desktop client and citation information from webpages via browser bookmarklet, whereas Zotero grabs citation information from webpages and, where possible, XMP-based metadata from PDFs
- online pdf viewer and other cool features that will make managing papers simpler
- The sharing and collaboration features on Mendeley seem to be better than Zotero
- there are notable differences in development philosophies
- Zotero is ‘open source’ (developers share code, so many people can contribute) whereas Mendeley contains some proprietary code
- Mendeley is still in beta so developers are constantly improving it
- both Zotero and Mendeley are freely-available for Windows, Mac and Linux and work with MSWord
- advantage of Mendeley is a standalone application but not open source; getting references into it is not as direct as with Zotero
- import references from PubMed and related databases
- attach pdfs to record
- share collections with individuals or create public collections
- options for the above (so that you take care of copyright issues)
- interface is good and user-friendly
- create tags of choice
- in beta and used online or via desktop!
- extracts citations and bibliographic data: Mendeley Desktop extracts bibliographic data, keywords, and cited references from PDFs and turns them into searchable full-text database
- might be good for nomads like residents – use from anywhere; felt I had to disable security features on my computer to get it to work
- idea of adding popularity layer over top - by keeping track of articles downloaded is intriguing
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