[Papyrus-L] Possible alternatives to Papyrus

[Loren Coen]

Any chance of a version that works on Vista/W7 as good as XP??

 

Loren

 

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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/ .  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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