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Zotero is awesome. 80% of the academic type people I've introduced it to have switched. The other 20% have Endnote stockholm syndrome.
by singingfish 8y ago
Zotero is awesome. 80% of the academic type people I've introduced it to have switched. The other 20% have Endnote stockholm syndrome.
- singingfish 8y agoIn the interests of nit-picking, back in the day I made some contribution to zotero's back end docs, and I was a bit unhappy with the way the open source project is managed as a potential contributor. But it's still pretty neat stuff.
- bede 8y agoHaving recently persuaded my research group leader not to spend >£500 on Endnote licenses, this comment tickled me. It may even be the case that Endnote is now a largely functional piece of software, but its history is too exquisite an exercise in Worse is Better for me to go near it again.
- jccalhoun 8y agoEndnote. Ugh. When I used it a decade ago it was the worst program I have ever used. Try to look up something and nothing happens. Is it thinking? Is it connecting to a server? Did it just not find any results? There's no way to tell because it doesn't tell you anything.
- jhbadger 8y agoParticularly bench biologists tend to have "The only way to write a paper is Microsoft Word and Endnote". Zotero is considered a bit eccentric and using LaTeX is practically unheard of. As a computational biologist I like Zotero and LaTeX but am often forced not to use them in collaborations.
- singingfish 8y agoI wrote my (social science) PhD with LaTex (eventually). Corralling it to BibTeX from Zotero was a bit of a pain, but worked fairly smoothly. What it did achieve was that it made it look like I had paid much more attention to layout and cross referencing than I actually had, which got me through with two nit-picking corrections.