I filed a bug report for this and I’m still tracking it after I left Mendeley for good. It crashed too, but the slowness was what made me want to punch my computer. I had to switch from Mendeley to Zotero in the middle of submitting a paper with 150 references, because the more references I added, the slower Mendeley became, at one point it would take several minutes until I had added a reference. Nota bene: If you write your manuscripts in LaTeX, I don’t think I can really handle hearing even more about its awesomeness. But I’m really curious to see the results of the poll.Īny thoughts about reference managers, what works and what doesn’t, and if you’ve changed from one system to another, any good ideas? Or unsubstantiated opinions? It plays nicely with my version of Word and crashes infrequently enough that I haven’t yet damaged my laptop by punching it.Īs far as I can tell, a lot of folks are using Mendeley. Two weeks and one manuscript later, I think it’s coming along pretty well. In the Mendeley there already are a huge set of collected references, and its integration with web searching for new citations is super-smooth. But I had a difficult time importing my old endnote library (and my endnote version expired and wouldn’t let me do it, long story). But Mendeley was bought by Elsevier last year, which has a number of downsides. And I’m not paying money for a program that will go out of date next year. I’m writing in Word to share files with collaborators. I’ve been looking for a New Way for the last year or so, after year or two of doing it old school. If you’re not using Endnote, for the love of some deity, don’t let yourself be tempted. A sucky, glitchy, hard to use product, by the way. But they end up releasing new versions of the software twice as fast as new editions of Campbell’s Biology and it’s just stupid to keep paying a company over and over for the same damn product. At one point, many years ago, I used Endnote.
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