Note taking, literature reviews and referencing software/applications

Daniela Sirinic & Kristin Makszin

Show & tell Referencing managers (&or bookmark managers)

EndNote Mendeley Citavi JabRef Zotero

Note taking software suggestions Keynote NF Keep Note MindMap

PDF readers – short intro Foxit Reader PDF-Xchange Viewer

Other useful apps

Referencing managers (& or bookmark managers) EndNote

not free, but easy to get Word in-cite option – not working well with

‘student version’

On the other side…

everyone uses it MyEndNoteWeb option to bookmark articles in

your browser and export them to the desktop version

Almost unlimited reference styles

Referencing managers (&or bookmark managers) Mendeley (http://www.mendeley.com/)

Free / + online backup of up to 500MB (+500MB for shared)

All-in-One Reference manager Folder organizer Automatically collects metadata from Google Schoolar

and updates your citations (not allways perfectily) Opens pdf’s , allows pdf annotation within Great interface Many other fun features for organizing databases "Mendeley is pretty much the most fun you can have with

your pants on.“ Works with Zotero and BibTex

Referencing managers (&or bookmark managers) Citavi

Swiss academic software Up to 100 references free // otherwise $ You can apply for a free version PhD lottery Basically same features as Mendeley Better interface – easier to use Organize knowledge: save quotations, thoughts,

and comments Plan and track tasks

Same in EndNote and Mendeley

NEW! Check it

Referencing managers (& or bookmark managers) Zotero (http://www.zotero.org/)

Free with100 MB of free Zotero File Storage for attached files, with larger storage plans available for purchase.

Reference manager Easily build library using internet browser (works only

with Firefox) Can export library to BibTeX, MODS, RIS, … Can sync library between multiple computers No built in PDF viewer or organizer

More formats available at: http://www.zotero.org/styles

Note taking

Keepnotehttp://keepnote.org/keepnote/

Note takingNote taking

Literature review

KeyNote NF http://code.google.com/p/keynote-nf/ I prefer this one

better export options automatic backup of last 9 changes code written by a PhD student

Literature review

MindMapping http://sciplore.org/software/

sciplore_mindmapping/ works with Mendeley, JabRef & Zotero CHECK: http://sciplore.org/blog/2010/03/02/how-

to-write-a-phd-thesis/

Other apps Foxit Reader PDF-XChange Viewer KickRSS – Feed Aggregator

http://www.kickrss.com/Research%20Blogs Google Reader Dropbox (https://www.dropbox.com/) Find open source alternatives:

http://alternativeto.net/software/keynote-nf/

The end… Questions? Suggestions?

Email addresses: Daniela - sirinic_daniela@ceu-budapest.edu Kristin – nickel_kristin@ceu-budapest.edu