Comments on: Get Your Fix: Papers 1.0

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:27:37 +0000

I really love Hubmed, mainly because it lets me subscribe to literature search results.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:09:12 +0000

You might try http://www.hubmed.org/ rather than pubmed if for no other reason than that they have a direct link to the full text article right on the search page. Sometimes you just don’t need to read the abstract to know that it’s the paper you’re looking for.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:08:14 +0000

I’d say JabRef is closer to Endnote than it is to Papers. I don’t really see Papers being a reference manager (at least, not yet), so much as a PDF library organizer with a science focus. It has some bibliographical organization, but no citation-formatting support, and no bibliography generator. If I wanted to write a paper, I’d have to export the Papers library out to Endnote or BibTeX.

On the other hand, you can use Endnote and BibTeX frontends to organize PDF libraries, as I did before, but I think Papers does a much better job of consolidating the workflow into one place and making it less painful.

By: MadGenius

MadGenius — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:47:14 +0000

hmm…mac user.

How does it compare with something like JabRef?

I use linux, and something called KBib.

By: mekentosj

mekentosj — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:31:21 +0000

Hi Eric,

Just saw your post, thanks for the heads up! You are right, the proxy system is broken in the 1.0 release, we mention this in the what’s new section. The reason for this is quite simple, we don’t have access to a location where we can actually test and develop this. We are working though on getting this fixed together with people who do work in such an environment. If people would like to help us out, drop us a line at feedback AT mekentosj DOT com…

By: Apollo

Apollo — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:36:07 +0000

Neat. I’ll have to see if this version is more stable for me than when I tried it before.