However, Docear offers a prototype web version that – for some data – gives you a version history, i.e. A web version is offered only by Zotero and Mendeley.
#Using docear with zotero mac os x#
Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X are supported by Zotero, Mendeley, and Docear. To prevent that hassle, choose a reference manager that supports as many platforms as possible. If your reference manager isn’t available for that system you will most likely spend quite a bit of time migrating to another one. In addition, if you are planning a career in academia, you might be required by your employer to use a certain operating system. Therefore, the more operating systems a reference manager is available for, the higher the chance that potential collaborators will be able to use your favorite reference manager. For instance, when you want to cooperate with another researcher, cooperation will be much easier when your collaborator is using the same reference manager as you are. Obviously, a reference manager must be available for your favorite operating system but it’s also important that a reference manager is available for as many operating systems as possible, in general.
Finally, we think it is important that a reference manager (9) is available for the major operating systems, (10) has an information management approach you like (tables, social tags, search, …), and (11) is open, free, and sustainable (see also What makes a bad reference manager).ĭetailed Comparison Operating Systems & Languages Additionally, many – but not all – students and researchers might be interested in (6) socializing and collaboration, (7) note, task, and general information management, and (8) file management. It should support you in (1) finding literature, (2) organizing and annotating literature, (3) drafting your papers, theses, books, assignments, etc., (4) managing your references (of course), and (5) writing your papers, theses, etc. We believe that a reference manager should offer more features than simple reference management. If you don’t want to read a lot, just jump to the summary
#Using docear with zotero install#
If you feel that one of the mentioned features is particularly important to you, install the tools yourself, compare the features, and share your insights in the comments! Most importantly, please let us know when something we wrote is not correct. So, consider this review as a rough guideline. Of course, a more comprehensive list of features and a more sophisticated rating scheme would have been nice, but this would have been too time consuming. Please note that we only compared about 50 high-level features and used a simple rating scheme in the summary table.
However, this comparison is most certainly more objective than those that Mendeley and other reference managers did -). You are very welcome to share your constructive criticism in the comments, as well as links to other reviews. In addition, it should be obvious that we – the developers of Docear – are somewhat biased. However, even if you disagree with our evaluation, you might find at least some new and interesting aspects as to evaluate reference management tools. Of course, the criteria are subjectively selected, as are all criteria by all reviewers, and you might not agree with all of them. Hopefully, we can include them in the comparison some day, but for now we only have time to compare the three. We really tried to do a fair comparison, based on a list of criteria that we consider important for reference management software. Of course, there are many other reference managers. In this Blog-post, we compare Zotero, Mendeley, and Docear and we hope that the comparison helps you to decide which of the reference managers is best for you. Actually, there is no such thing as the ‘best’ reference manager but only the reference manager that is best for you (even though some developers seem to believe that their tool is the only truly perfect one).
So, which reference manager is best? Zotero? Mendeley? Docear? …? The answer is: “It depends”, because different people have different needs. Which one is the best reference management software? That’s a question any student or researcher should think about quite carefully, because choosing the best reference manager may save lots of time and increase the quality of your work significantly.
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