One of our research scientists who works on a Macintosh is using a
package named Papers to manage their personal collection of PDFs of
journal articles stored on their hard drive. According to the
information/demos on the package's website at
http://mekentosj.com/papers/ , Papers enables users to search PubMed
from within the software's own web browser and seamlessly import
bibliographic records and download the full-text as PDF files into their
personal library with a couple of clicks of the mouse. Unfortunately,
Papers was written for the Macintosh environment and is not available
for Windows. At present our PC users who want to build personal
libraries of PDFs are restricted to using EndNote 7 to search PubMed and
manage their PDFs. This requires them to import bibliographic data and
download the relevant PDFs separately. They then have to manually create
a link in the corresponding EndNote record to the relevant PDF. This
process is time-consuming and laborious when compared with the
ease-of-use provided by Papers.
Does anyone know of any Windows-compatible software that has similar
functionality to Papers ? Or is its superior functionality dependent on
technology specific to the Macintosh environment ?
With apologies for cross-posting.
Many thanks.
Kathryn Bull (Miss)
Information Scientist
Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology
Imperial College London
1 Aspenlea Road
London
W6 8LH
Tel: 020 8383 4495
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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