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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ReadCube Papers

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ADigital Science company ReadCube now offers Papers, a reference management application.

    $36

    per user

    Zotero

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/AZotero is a free reference management tool developed as a project developed at Carnegie Mellon and supported by a small team at George Mason University.N/A
    Pricing
    ReadCube PapersZotero
    Editions & Modules
    Student
    $36.00
    per user
    Academic (Indivdual)
    $60.00
    per user
    Corporate
    $120.00
    per user
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ReadCube PapersZotero
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    User Ratings
    ReadCube PapersZotero
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.6
    (2 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    10.0
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    Vendor post-sale
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    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    ReadCube PapersZotero
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Digital Science
    ReadCube Papers has become an indispensable tool for my research. It offers a solution that keeps my library of research articles organized, and has improved the numbers of papers I am reading and annotating. The user-friendly interface simplifies the process of categorizing papers, highlighting essential text, and adding personal notes directly to the documents. The library is available online and through their own in-house application, which has worked perfectly (and much better than other solutions I have tried to use previously). In short, ReadCube Papers has truly improved the way I manage my research materials, making my academic life much more efficient and enjoyable.
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    Open Source
    Zotero is well suited for any researcher, student or writer that wants to easily cite sources for web platforms that do not have easy citing tools integrated within the website. There are many browser plug-ins built for Zotero that allow users to click a button directly from the source into the main software and from there can be more organized for citation export. Zotero doesn't work well if you open an external PDF from a website as it cannot pull author information correctly from a PDF source.
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    Pros
    Digital Science
    • Easy including references to projects
    • Easily share literature with clients and teammates
    • Cross-reference on Microsoft Word
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    Open Source
    • Zotero, when paired with the Zotfile plugin, makes it incredibly easy to index sources and documents on a project-by-project basis. Users can store document files locally in a Zotero project filesystem, or merely store links to files stored elsewhere.
    • Zotero plays extremely nicely with PDF documents, thanks again to the Zotfile plugin: I can highlight sections of a PDF article's text and Zotero indexes these "pull quotes" in a searchable and well-organized manner for easy extraction when it comes time to synthesize my sources into a new paper.
    • Zotero automates the production of properly-formatted references (including APA, MLA, Chicago, and others), making it a breeze to create accurate and complete bibliographies.
    • Zotero's library system provides a straightforward graphical user interface to manage multiple research projects and associated files, including the ability to easily add items to a project by ISBN, DOI, PMID, and arXiv IDs.
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    Cons
    Digital Science
    • Extract content of single document as annotations for project
    • See documents as a part of a project, not just a list of names
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    Open Source
    • Libre office integration was iffy
    • Using different word processors (i.e, Word, then Google Docs on the same file) can "break" embedded citations.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Digital Science
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    Open Source
    Zotero is a fantastic software for researchers. We do pay for 6 GB of storage for each user, so their libraries can be backed to the cloud beyond the 300 MB of allowed free storage. It's low-cost, or can be free if you don't opt into that version. No other citation manager comes even close to Zotero in its capabilities, user-friendly nature, and cost, nor do they innovate their features constantly like Zotero and have open source support online
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    Usability
    Digital Science
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    Open Source
    once you adapt to the interface, which could feel a bit outdated and old school, its incredible intuitive. An aesthetic improvement could make it reach a whole other level, just if it does not lose any of its usability features. Its quite intuitive and the learning curve is very short.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Digital Science
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    Open Source
    Always available. I have it downloaded on my desktop and it opens quickly/immediately, holds open the articles I was reading on the page I was at, and is always ready-to-go for something like Word integration for adding citations
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    Performance
    Digital Science
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    Open Source
    Everything loads shockingly quickly. PDFs open much faster in Zotero than they do in Adobe Acrobat, all changes to PDFs are saved, the citation manager opens relatively quickly in Word, the tool updates with the online Zotero interface and automatically syncs seamlessly
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    Support Rating
    Digital Science
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    Open Source
    I have never used Zotero support. I can answer the questions I need to from googling or finding others who have asked my same question in the Zotero support community forums
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    Implementation Rating
    Digital Science
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    Open Source
    I was not involved with the implementation
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    Alternatives Considered
    Digital Science
    The graphic user interface is beautiful; adding literature to a project is a seamless process, annotations while collaborating are intuitive and sometimes even fun. Competitors might be cheaper but do not consolidate all the tools that ReadCube has been able to achieve.
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    Open Source
    Zotero is much less prone to glitches than Mendeley, and has much easier to use web extensions and word processor plugins. I found Zotero easy and intuitive to use
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    Scalability
    Digital Science
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    Open Source
    All features of Zotero have always worked just fine to me. In my many years using it, I've never run into issues. And when I do want to maximize my use of some feature or learn more, the product support communities are helpful. It's an extremely consistent, reliable software
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    Professional Services
    Digital Science
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    Open Source
    Skipping - did not work with their professional services for my purchase
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    Return on Investment
    Digital Science
    • It has saved us while sharing documents with colleagues and clients.
    • It helped us improve our writing process metrics, time and outcome.
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    Open Source
    • More Credibility on Our Online Posts that is Informational
    • Less Chances of Potential Legal Issues When Writing
    • Less Time Spent Grabbing Sources from Browser History When Researching
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    ScreenShots

    ReadCube Papers Screenshots

    Screenshot of Automatic meta-data matching, organizational collections, personal and shared spaces, and article previewsScreenshot of Automatic matching of available supplements when you import the main paper into PapersScreenshot of Share your collections with your collaboratorsScreenshot of Left panel within the reader offers a breadth of information including figure browsers, reference list, notes panel, supplements, metrics, citation export and related articlesScreenshot of Our enhanced reader comes with hyperlinked inline references and an array of annotation tools including inline notes, post-its, highlighting and draw featuresScreenshot of Left panel within the reader offers a breadth of information including figure browsers, reference list, notes panel, supplements, metrics, citation export and related articles