[Papyrus-L] Possible alternatives to Papyrus

[James Mallet]

I changed over to Reference Manager a few years ago now (see prev. 
posts), but I agree with Raisa that Papyrus was very user friendly. I 
too would love to see updated Papyrus for newer windowing operating systems.

There are still some really annoying things with Reference Manager 
and probably Endnote too.

One is that, now that Thomson/ISI have a virtual monopoly of 
bibliographic software (Endnote, Reference Manager, and ProCite), 
they don't ever seem to bother fix the obvious annoyances with their 
systems.  Probably for the same reason, the programs are also very 
expensive for what they do. In spite of not fixing up the program 
much, they frequently issue new versions, which all cost more as well.

I've heard Zotero is good (and open source), but others have told me 
that's annoying too, and you have to run it through Mozilla Firefox.

The new one I've heard about is Mendeley 
<http://www.mendeley.com/>http://www.mendeley.com/ .  As I understand 
it you can keep your references online with them, format references 
for journals, cooperate with word processors, as well as link PDFs 
and share references and online PDFs with your research group and/or 
friends. And it's completely free. Sounds kind of like a music sharing site.

However, I suppose it's on the cards that they'll start charging 
after a while when they have people hooked -- I am not sure how they 
are financed. I also worry about what happens when the web goes down 
and you need your references. Perhaps they have some local program as well...

Endnote Web is also similar, I've been told by Hungarian friends, 
though since I don't use Endnote I haven't tried it.

j



At 15:45 10/02/2011, you wrote:

>Hi, Dave.  Wonderful to hear from you.

>Any possibility of extending Papyrus to work with newer operating

>systems?  I'm clinging to my old office Mac so I can run Classic

>under Tiger; at home, I'm using DOSBOX under Snow Leopard (along with

>Word for DOS).  All so I can run Papyrus.  Which is still head and

>shoulders above the competition.

>Raisa Deber

>On 10-Feb-11, at 12:18 AM, Dave Goldman wrote:

>

>>There haven't been any posts here for several months, so I thought

>>I'd better confirm that the listserv system is still working!

>>

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