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ReadCube Papers

Score9 out of 10

3 Reviews and Ratings

What is ReadCube Papers?

Digital Science company ReadCube now offers Papers, a reference management application.

Categories & Use Cases

Media

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

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An incredible resource for managing research papers

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use ReadCube Papers to maintain my academic paper library - keeping it organized and structured. I additionally use it as my primary paper annotator - highlighting relevant parts of articles for my work, and adding notes to papers where necessary.

Pros

  • Organize research papers effectively
  • Great user interface for annotating research papers
  • Allows for easy import into the database from Chrome

Cons

  • Citation manager is a little clunky and has issues
  • The annotation interface could be expanded to include more note -taking features
  • Importing papers using the proxy manager can be a little iffy

Most Important Features

  • Annotation of imported papers
  • Easy to manage library structure

Return on Investment

  • Increased the number of papers I am reading
  • Making more notes on relevant papers

Beautiful interface full of functionality

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Papers for sharing and collaborating with sophisticated research

and development clients. On ReadCube, we create projects for each

client, and both parties add papers, patents and theses for meetings,

annotations, organize all relevant references and the actual production process, so that we are always on the same page.

Pros

  • Easy including references to projects
  • Easily share literature with clients and teammates
  • Cross-reference on Microsoft Word

Cons

  • Extract content of single document as annotations for project
  • See documents as a part of a project, not just a list of names

Most Important Features

  • Sharing capabilities
  • Annotations
  • Cross-references

Return on Investment

  • It has saved us while sharing documents with colleagues and clients.
  • It helped us improve our writing process metrics, time and outcome.

Alternatives Considered

Mendeley

Other Software Used

Mendeley, Evernote, Apple iCloud Calendar (iCal), Google Calendar, Microsoft Power BI