I'm a fan of Mendeley. For me it solves a few problems that the other
reference tools I've used don't do as well.
First it reads through PDF files on my hard drive and does its best to identify
the article. Given that I've got something on the order of 25,000 PDFs (yes, I
do collect too much...), most of which I haven't tracked citation info for,
that's a huge help. It certainly isn't perfect, and sometimes it comes up with
some really screwy info, but it's still faster than me doing everything
manually.
Second, it stores everything both on my computer in their desktop application
and on the web, so I can get to it from anywhere and add to my library from any
computer.
Third, it can export to basically any citation style.
Fourth, it syncs with CiteULike and Zotero (two other reference tools I've
used), so I can use whatever's handiest (Zotero is great for a lot of publisher
sites and CiteULike works well for many of the ones Zotero doesn't).
I presume it does export to BibTeX, although I haven't tried it myself. The
link below actually says it's completed and the feature list says it does, but
the recent comments seem to indicate that it doesn't do everything people would
like. I'd recommend testing it out to see if it does what you need.
It looks like they make their money through charging fees for PDF storage above
500MB/1GB, and probably some other ways. I've only uploaded a few files -- it
isn't a requirement to upload files in order to use the service for tracking
meta-data about references.
Brent
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From: Russ Abbott <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
<[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2011 8:11 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Mendeley
Apparently not yet.
See http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-mendeley-feedback/suggestions/80936-latex-integration-in-mendeley-desktop
-- Russ
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Russell Standish <[email protected]> wrote:
Big question - does it do BibTeX?
>
>BTW - I often use Google Scholar to populate my BibTeX database.
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>Cheers
>
>On Tue, Nov 01, 2011 at 10:55:26AM -0700, Russ Abbott wrote:
>> I just posted this to my Google+ stream.
>>
>> I don't want to be a shill for a private service (but I guess I'm going to
>> be anyway), but this system [Mendeley <http://www.mendeley.com/>] seems
>> quite impressive. It parses PDFs (and other documents) you drop into it and
>> builds a bibliography for you. It provides a way to annotate the
>> bibliography. I think it also lets you annotate pdf files. It doesn't get
>> them all right, but what it does looks very useful. Besides, it's free. It
>> claims to synchronize across computers besides making your papers
>> accessible through any browser. I don't know if that means downloading to
>> all the synched computers as Dropbox does.
>>
>> It apparently has investors (see their about us page:
>> http://www.mendeley.com/about-us/) but it's not clear what their business
>> model is. So far, I haven't seen any ads except for themselves. They do
>> apparently sell a "pro" version. The free version has 1GB of storage.
>>
>> Anyone know any more about it?
>>
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