Hello everyone,
I realise that this question has been asked before, and I apologise for repeating it today, (I can find the questions but not the answers!) however I'm wondering if anyone has done any recent comparative work looking at Refworks, Mendeley, and any other free citation software? I would appreciate it greatly if you felt able to share your findings as this would save me a lot of legwork! The bottom line is, what does the subscription service offer over and above the free ones, and is it worth the money? Or, is there any merit in free only?
Thanks in advance
Jenni
Snip a message earlier
Zotero had a writeup in our academic development magazine along with something on mendeley and the writer saying that he (I think it was) found Refworks and Endnote hard to use, and that the data resided in their universite so it was difficult to migrate if you moved.
When I looked at Zotero in the process I found bibsomony, and have started to look at them.
Immediately what comes over is that title and creator makes a much more simple record structure than the classical forms and with new digital storage devices might be just about all one needs along with DOI. However in many subjects, there are as yet very few DOI so perhaps one needs title, creator, date, source and even these will take us back to classical matters. What I'm trying to do is extract space, time, agents, concepts, notations from titles (which is rather a ranganathan thing) then add Just use Dewey so I can sort.
Done a big one on archaeology which I am going to put somewhere
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