"Papers" Equivalent for PC.

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Title says it all. i have a PC, and my professor uses Papers, and i would like a software which does what papers does for PC. anyone know of anything?

http://www.mendeley.com/features/ also for Mac OS X. Great for Windows, so-so for OS X, but iOS app needs work.

mmm i used it before, but the function of Papers i was most interested in was its ability to Retrieve papers. it was like an Endnote/Mendeley Hybrid function where you searched for the paper, found the abstract, and the software scanned databases to see where you had access to it, and downloaded it for you. i see Mendeley has an import function but that only works in the browser, and you have to find the paper yourself. is there anything like the thing i described?

Originally Posted by StilgarMD

mmm i used it before, but the function of Papers i was most interested in was its ability to Retrieve papers. it was like an Endnote/Mendeley Hybrid function where you searched for the paper, found the abstract, and the software scanned databases to see where you had access to it, and downloaded it for you. i see Mendeley has an import function but that only works in the browser, and you have to find the paper yourself. is there anything like the thing i described?

Endnote can do this, if you set up the 'find full text' features accordingly. Linking it to your university's network will give you a wider range of access. I find it easier to search in the various databases themselves (pubmed, WOK) and then hit the export to Endnote button, but you can search directly from Endnote as well.

Paper is now supported for windows

i see not what you speak of... link?

EDIT: nvm, found it! awesome!

Didn't want to make a whole new thread, but I am thinking about dropping the dough on endnote through my schools IT program. About 100 bucks. Refworks is free. Should I drop the money on endnote or just use refworks?

I do not have experience with these other programs, but Endnote is easily worth $100 if you have to pay for it. It is like the gift that keeps on giving.

Perhaps some other options are cheaper, but when you boil it down to how much time it's going to save you, it's probably 25 cents an hour or less.

Love Mendeley. +1 for them.

Originally Posted by Shifty B

I do not have experience with these other programs, but Endnote is easily worth $100 if you have to pay for it. It is like the gift that keeps on giving.

Perhaps some other options are cheaper, but when you boil it down to how much time it's going to save you, it's probably 25 cents an hour or less.

I just DL'd Endnote X5 free from my university. What advantages does it have over Mendeley? I'm not keen on re-organizing my entire library (and I only have ~1,400 PDFs... a lot of people have much more). If all EndNote X5 can do is citations, Mendeley does that pretty flawlessly, and has a better UI / web features.

I just wish Mendeley had the preview features of Papers, and a better iOS app.

Originally Posted by erikreinertsen

I just DL'd Endnote X5 free from my university. What advantages does it have over Mendeley? I'm not keen on re-organizing my entire library (and I only have ~1,400 PDFs... a lot of people have much more). If all EndNote X5 can do is citations, Mendeley does that pretty flawlessly, and has a better UI / web features.

I just wish Mendeley had the preview features of Papers, and a better iOS app.

I mean, what exactly are you trying to achieve here? The major time savings from any reference manager is in rapidly formatting references.

Organizing files with keywords, notes, etc., is fine but the time savings is much less. Use tiered folders to save your files and name the files in an intuitive way, no matter what.

Originally Posted by Shifty B

I mean, what exactly are you trying to achieve here? The major time savings from any reference manager is in rapidly formatting references.

Organizing files with keywords, notes, etc., is fine but the time savings is much less. Use tiered folders to save your files and name the files in an intuitive way, no matter what.

As I said, I'm asking what Endnote does better than Mendeley: rapid reference formatting, metadata import, plus the host of web features that Endnote seemingly lacks.

Yes, I am also a big fan of organizing files and folders. Good thing Mendeley does that for you automatically! Actually, now that I think about it, I guess all the PDFs are organized already, so importing into Endnote wouldn't be too bad. So, my question is what the point would be.

There should be a feature-by-feature comparison of these apps.

Mostly I just organize my papers by folders, with any notes in the same folder in text documents or word files. It's simple, rapidly searchable, and transferrable.

I've never used Mendeley, but maybe I'll try it.

This is an old thread, but check out http://www.readcube.com/