

mit.edu email address affiliated with your account. The increased storage will be automatically applied if you have a. The Libraries were recently able to purchase a Zotero subscription which provide all MIT users with unlimited storage.See the Zotero blog post about this features and the documentation.


I hear good things about Zotero, Papers was a top choice among academics I know but I am not sure everyone was entirely happy with the transition to Papers2 and Papers3. I use Mendeley, and it has has a plug in for Word that works pretty well (though every now and then they change something and it all breaks for a while). Finding a program that can intake it all is tricky - one deterrent to leaving BD is that nothing else I’ve tried can be coerced to import all the data & structure BD can export. BibDesk is nice in this respect b/c between templates and AppleScript you can get everything out of it. are going to be with you for a long time, so I’d pay close attention to export formats (and how much customized structure - groups, smart groups & the like) can be exported. This all took a lot of custom scripting and template building etc., and I’m not sure I’d recommend it.īut if you’re in academia your refs.

More than 20 years later I’ve come full circle and built a custom FileMaker Go database to get my refs. I use BibDesk, but the first 500 or so of the 6000+ refs in my database came from a Paradox database I built on Windows 3.1 (also wrote my own WordPerfect macros to handle adding refs. I think an important aspect of this Q is how easy it is for you to import and export your data.
