Seems there are quite a few online reference managers out there now. Many of them are great. Unfortunately, none of them have all the features I would like. But considering five years ago, there wasn't anything, we can hope that in the near future someone will combine the best ideas into one awesome package.
In the meantime, ones that have made an outstanding start are zotero.com, Labmeeting.com, and https://home.wizfolio.com. Zotero is great because it works through your web browser and collects reference information for a wide variety of sources, including pdfs, webpages, and images among others. It can't however collect reference information from citations in pdfs, nor can it do full text searches. Labmeeting allows full text searching along with searches on PubMed and Google Scholar, as well as easy sharing among colleagues. It only does pdfs though, and does not plug into word processors. Wizfolio seems the best at collecting reference information easily, including from inside pdfs, handles pdfs, webpages, images, what have you. It will even search out pdfs on the web for you. It sadly does not offer full text searching, which is a critical feature for me. It also is a standalone, not easily combinable with other people, so it is not as easy to share pdfs with people as it is on Labmeeting.
All of them offer easier methods of entering references than CiteULike in my opinion.
Now if only all these products were combined, we would have an absolutely brilliant program.
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You can share bibliographic data and PDFs in WizFolio very easily. Just drag and drop your colleagues' names into the folder you want to share.
Excellent! Thanks for letting me know. I will have to play around with the program some more.
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