Jeroen Bosmans posts about on a special seminar of Refworks in Utrecht, lists minimum requirements and summarizes convincing arguments why possible web-based alternatives like Connotea, Zotero, CiteUlike (and a host of others) do not comply: they lack SFX compliance, word processor integration and/or easy import functions
Refworks promotion in the Netherlands, or: what criteria for bibliographic management software?
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This article is just plain wrong--the author clearly didn't use Zotero for very long or look into its features well enough. Zotero has OpenURL support (compare with SFX), integration with Word, and many import/export options (actually, more than RefWorks). Zotero looks like iTunes and is far easier than RefWorks for new users to pick up. Unlike RefWorks, it is also free (as in no cost and open source). It can grab citations from thousands of websites and databases--far more than RefWorks. And the Zotero server (available soon) will enable all of the things RefWorks can do and this article's author asks for--sharing, feeds, groups, etc.--again, for free. Zotero is even available in Dutch! So why pay for an inferior, costly product?
Thanks for the comment about Zotero. We have had EndNote Web since December, but it doesn't work with our catalog.
Appreciated post.
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