Mendeley: very good research library manager

[William Voorsluys]

Hey guys,

After having used a couple of library/reference managers such as
JabRef and Zotero, I finally settled down with Mendeley
(http://www.mendeley.com).

IMO, some clear advantages over others include:

1. PDF import feature, which detects most paper information straight
away (title, author, etc).
2. Ability of importing references using the DOI or from CrossRef,
PubMed, and ArXiv (useful to amend references that PDF import doesn't
get right), and exporting (Bibtex, EndNote, etc).
3. Tagging references
4. Maintaining your library online and syncronizing over multiple computers.
5. Desktop version available for Linux, Windows and OS X.

Please not that it's not open-source, although it's being given for
free (the company will charge for professional versions in the
future). Please see this FAQ:

Is Mendeley free?

The straight answer would be yes and no. Yes, it's free, because:
Everything you get when you sign up to Mendeley is completely free and
will always remain free - including the features described in What is
Mendeley?

No, it's not completely free, because: At a later point in time, we
will expand upon the existing features and introduce additional ones
for professional users – these will be available for a (very
reasonable) fee.

Cheers,

William

[Anton Beloglazov]

Hi All,

Regarding reference managers, I would like to add some information about Zotero (http://www.zotero.org/).

Zotero has some shortcomings compared to Mendeley: it doesn't support importing reference's data using DOI and it's not a standalone software, but just an addon for Firefox. However, it has advantages: it's free, open-source and extensible. When I started to deal with large amount of references, I faced the problem of ranking papers by the number of citations to distinguish the most important ones. To address this, I made a plugin for Zotero that automatically fetches the number of citations for each paper from Google Scholar. Using this feature you can sort references by the number of citations and easily find the most cited.

If anybody is interested, please give a try to the plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/14667

Thanks,

Anton

2010/2/9 William Voorsluys <willi...@gmail.com>

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