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Papers – Desktop app for finding, organizing, citing academic research

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Re: Papers – Desktop app for finding, organizing, citing academic research

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Interesting that this has appeared here now, since it's been around for quite a while (I first saw colleagues using this nearly 7 years ago). I've only heard good thing about it, though I've never used it myself (not being much of a mac person).

Other similar services include Mendeley [0] (now owned by Elsevier, I believe), gPapers [1] (less functionality, looks defunct), and good ol' bibtex files.

[0] - http://www.mendeley.com/

[1] - http://gpapers.org/

Re: Papers – Desktop app for finding, organizing, citing academic research

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post #2

Interesting that this has appeared here now, since it's been around for quite a while (I first saw colleagues using this nearly 7 years ago). I've only heard good thing about it, though I've never used it myself (not being much of a mac person). Other similar services include Mendeley [0] (now owned by Elsevier, I believe), gPapers [1] (less functionality, looks defunct), and good ol' bibtex files. [0] - http://www.m…

Don't forget Zotero (open source).

Re: Papers – Desktop app for finding, organizing, citing academic research

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I wonder how adoption has been? I'm particularly interested amongst undergraduate students.

I know a few people that use it, including myself. However, I can't bring myself to upgrade to version 3. It's just too different for my tastes.

Re: Papers – Desktop app for finding, organizing, citing academic research

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post #2

Interesting that this has appeared here now, since it's been around for quite a while (I first saw colleagues using this nearly 7 years ago). I've only heard good thing about it, though I've never used it myself (not being much of a mac person). Other similar services include Mendeley [0] (now owned by Elsevier, I believe), gPapers [1] (less functionality, looks defunct), and good ol' bibtex files. [0] - http://www.m…

What does papers provide over Mendeley?

Re: Papers – Desktop app for finding, organizing, citing academic research

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post #2

Interesting that this has appeared here now, since it's been around for quite a while (I first saw colleagues using this nearly 7 years ago). I've only heard good thing about it, though I've never used it myself (not being much of a mac person). Other similar services include Mendeley [0] (now owned by Elsevier, I believe), gPapers [1] (less functionality, looks defunct), and good ol' bibtex files. [0] - http://www.m…

And Sente too: http://www.thirdstreetsoftware.com/site/SenteForMac.html

Re: Papers – Desktop app for finding, organizing, citing academic research

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Interesting that this has appeared here now, since it's been around for quite a while (I first saw colleagues using this nearly 7 years ago). I've only heard good thing about it, though I've never used it myself (not being much of a mac person). Other similar services include Mendeley [0] (now owned by Elsevier, I believe), gPapers [1] (less functionality, looks defunct), and good ol' bibtex files. [0] - http://www.m…

> Mendeley [0] (now owned by Elsevier, I believe)

Similarly, note that Papers is owned by Springer.

Re: Papers – Desktop app for finding, organizing, citing academic research

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post #2

Interesting that this has appeared here now, since it's been around for quite a while (I first saw colleagues using this nearly 7 years ago). I've only heard good thing about it, though I've never used it myself (not being much of a mac person). Other similar services include Mendeley [0] (now owned by Elsevier, I believe), gPapers [1] (less functionality, looks defunct), and good ol' bibtex files. [0] - http://www.m…

What does papers provide over Mendeley?

That is a very relevant question, since Mendeley is free.

Reading the Web site the only advantage that I found is that it allows you to use your Dropbox account to sync the files, while for Mendeley, if you want more space than a free account offers, you have to pay.

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