Reference/Paper Management Software

Andrew

I'm looking for a nice, free application to help me manage my papers and references. The only one I'm aware of is Zotero, but I'd rather not have to deal with a Firefox plugin. Anyone have experience with other software that handles this functionality?

Dr. Zibbelcoot PhD

I've used EndNote and BibTex before. But I'm pretty bad at trying to organize them with that. Most of my papers are just in subfolders. There's also CiteULike, though I haven't tried that. I'm going to try Mendeley as I really need to get all my thesis references together somehow.

Victor Frost

MS Word 2007 has great reference tracking functionality built in.

Andrew

MS Word 2007 has great reference tracking functionality built in.

Uh no.

GreatTeacherMacRoss

Endnote was great once I figured out how to use it properly. It has a bit of a learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, it's really useful.

Andrew

Endnote was great once I figured out how to use it properly. It has a bit of a learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, it's really useful.

Also expensive and doesn't work on Linux Mendeley looks great, I'm going to try it out.

Blattus

Ars recently wrote up a review of Mendeley that made me want to try it, but I first saw it halfway into my current project and haven't had the time to go back and type up all of my written annotations/highlights.

Anyways, it looks cool. I've also used RefWorks, but I think that's a institution-based thing that's expensive for the individual user.