Zotero and the research eco-system

One of my first jobs was to do a feature comparison between Pro-Cite and Ref-Man because each was strongly advocated by professors at Frenchay Hospital. That was a long time ago. In the end we realised they both did more or less the same thing and since each prof had their own budget and thousands of papers in their preferred system it wasn't worth trying to adopt a common system.

Fifteen years on theenvironment is very different. Most scientists are using the Web as a constant backdrop to their research. If anyone knows of a comprehensive review of reference management 2.0 let me know. For now I can mention 2 - Zotero - Firefox based, open source and now Public Library of Science Ready
and Notate , which has been developed by a couple of Scottish academics and is cross-browser.

Both are part of the research eco-system - a set of tools to help researchers do their work.

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