#ZOTERO VS MENDELEY VS ENDNOTE FULL#
#ZOTERO VS MENDELEY VS ENDNOTE SOFTWARE#

Once you have loved and lost a reference manager, it is so much easier to move on. I woke up the next morning to find that many kindly souls had posted new references to it – instant literature searching! I was captivated and told all my friends about my new toy, trying to lure them away from the Endnote mothership.īut, like so many intense love affairs, the lustre eventually wore off and my eye began to wander. I made an open Twitter literature list, added a few references and published it on the web. I spent a day or so transferring my data and LOVED the way it renamed all my PDFs in a consistent format at the press of a button.īeing a social sharing kind of person I put together a research education bibliograhy and linked it to the blog.

#ZOTERO VS MENDELEY VS ENDNOTE SOFTWARE#

The interface is lovely and clean which was an unexpected bonus (I think it’s a pity that the aesthetics of software design for functional programs doesn’t often get that kind of treatment). Your data is in the cloud, so no more data sticks and version control issues. It works in a similar way to iTunes in that you can make a ‘playlist’ for each topic and it’s social, so you can share your reference data with others.

A photocopied flyer, which my friend Dr Scott Mayson picked up in a seminar room, led me to Mendeley. These days I would just ask Twitter what my options were, but back then such research was more random. I’d heard rumours there were better reference managers out there, so I got my thesis handed in and looked around for an alternative solution. Up to that point I loved you, but ever since, no matter how often someone tells me you have lifted your game, you have been officially Dead To Me. Over night a kind soul answered and fixed my problem.īut no thank you Endnote, you failed me in my hour of need. I put a cry for help on the same forum and crossed my fingers. On it was a post which detailed the problem I was having, but the posted answer didn’t work for me. In the end, my mad skills of Google led me to an obscure Endnote support forum. I could read their thoughts: Thank god this isn’t me! Believe me when I say this does not make you feel any calmer.įrantic calls to the library resulted in pointers to some very helpful material, but that didn’t help. Those who eyeballed my tattered thesis looked horrified. No students on the PhD floor at the University of Melbourne had experienced anything like it. Mischief managed (this strategy works really well by the way, even if you don’t have to employ it from desperation). “It’s a good thing Inger,” he said cheerfully “Just point out in the introduction that the journal was published after you finished and this is evidence that the topic is hot“. My supervisor solved crisis number one with a single phone call.

Endnote bugged out and turned all my 400 odd references into gibberish (instant coronary!!!).

#ZOTERO VS MENDELEY VS ENDNOTE FULL#

A whole journal came out full of articles that ‘scooped’ my thesis topic (gah!!).Just before I handed in my thesis two things happened, which, up to then I had thought were PhD student urban myths:

Zotero vs mendeley vs endnote