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Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research

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Re: Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research

#13

Zotero really need more advertisement. I prefer Zotero over Mendeley, but Mandaley seems to advertise much more to university.

Even though I also like Zotero better because of its open nature, I prefer Mendeley in practice mostly because it has a decent Android client where you can just sync all your PDFs and read them on a tablet or something. Seemed a bit more involved to do the same with Zotero (where it seemed there were only minimal Android clients quickly hacked together). Mendeley also has 2GB storage, so that's nice for personal use and paper/book syncing.

That said, if I had to collaborate in a larger group I'd surely choose Zotero instead of locking everybody into some proprietary ecosystem. But for personal use I definitely don't feel that I'm enabling or supporting Elsevier somehow in using their freeware.

Re: Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research

#15
> Zotero is the only software that automatically senses research on the web. Need an article from JSTOR or a preprint from arXiv.org? A news story from the New York Times or a book from a library? Zotero has you covered, everywhere.

Is there a way to make it work with SciHub? Asking for a friend... ;).

Re: Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research

#17

> Zotero is the only software that automatically senses research on the web. Need an article from JSTOR or a preprint from arXiv.org? A news story from the New York Times or a book from a library? Zotero has you covered, everywhere. Is there a way to make it work with SciHub? Asking for a friend... ;).

Zotero can extract meaningful data from PDF. Alternatively, you can use the paper DOI.

Re: Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research

#18

> Zotero is the only software that automatically senses research on the web. Need an article from JSTOR or a preprint from arXiv.org? A news story from the New York Times or a book from a library? Zotero has you covered, everywhere. Is there a way to make it work with SciHub? Asking for a friend... ;).

A quick DDG search lead me to this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/scihub/comments/7ilwzv/scihub_look_...

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