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
#2Wow what a throw back...I remember using Zotero in middle school over a decade ago. It was a great tool then, glad to see they're still going strong.
Re: Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research
#3Looks like https://www.mendeley.com
Re: Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research
#4Can I use this completely isolated and offline, or does it require you to use it online or is otherwise severely limited if you don't? And it is easy to get it in this mode in a clear way? Their website doesn't make this clear if this is possible.
Re: Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research
#5Can I use this completely isolated and offline, or does it require you to use it online or is otherwise severely limited if you don't? And it is easy to get it in this mode in a clear way? Their website doesn't make this clear if this is possible.
It is completely isolated, if for example you want to include references in word. However some functions like adding references quickly with DOIs will fail without an internet connection.
Re: Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research
#6Wow what a throw back...I remember using Zotero in middle school over a decade ago. It was a great tool then, glad to see they're still going strong.
I thought the same thing - It looks like they've come a long way since I used it eons ago.
Re: Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research
#7We also used Zotero during our university studies for keeping track of citations. It's a great tool!
Re: Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research
#8Looks like https://www.mendeley.com
They are direct “competitors”. I find Zotero more power-user-friendly. For instance, there is a powerful bibtex plugin for Zotero that can run a server on localhost, so I can fetch the up-to-date bibliography for any particular collection from a make build with curl. I don’t see this hapenning ever in Mendeley
Re: Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research
#9Looks like https://www.mendeley.com
It's an Elsevier product, so no interest there.
I'd rather just use JabRef http://www.jabref.org/
Re: Zotero: An open-source tool to help collect, organize, cite, and share research
#10Looks like https://www.mendeley.com
Mendeley is supported by Elsevier, closed-source, and has premium-only features only for institutional users. Its publisher affiliation is important, when you see things like "Mendeley supports responsible sharing."
Zotero is the full package, GPL, the only premium service is extra data for syncing with their server (not necessary if you only have one client). None of this Orwellian hinting about keeping researchers from using libgen.