What Reference Managers and Research Tools does the Library work with?
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Zotero
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
The Library has subscribed to Zotero Institutional Storage that provides to Zotero users with an @weizmann.ac.il email address unlimited storage reflected in their storage settings, with a note that it's provided by The Weizmann Institute of Science. Weizmann users who registered with a different email address can add their @weizmann.ac.il address to their account at any time from their account settings on zotero.org.
Learn more with Quick Start Guide and Zotero Video Tutorials.
Mendeley
Mendeley, is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest findings on your topic. The Library has purchased an institutional edition which allows up to 5 GB personal space, further collaboration abilities such as unlimited number of private groups and up to 25 people in private group and more. HOWEVER, please note that Mendeley (v1.19) has started encrypting your Mendeley database, making it difficult to do a full export of data to Zotero. The Library cannot recommend a product which blocks portability of data.
RefWorks
RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.
Learn more with the Tutorial and sign up for an individual account.
iThenticate
iThenticate is the leading provider of professional plagiarism detection and prevention technology used worldwide by scholarly publishers and research institutions to ensure the originality of written work before publication. iThenticate helps editors, authors and researchers prevent misconduct by comparing manuscripts against its database of over 56 billion web pages and 142 million content items, including 44 million works from 590 scholarly publisher participants of CrossCheck.
Please refer to the User Guide
The Weizmann Library maintains a subscription to iThenticate. How can I obtain an iThenticate account?
Paperpile
Paperpile is an online reference manager that works in the Chrome web browser and cites with Google Docs.
If you're trying to easily collect citations and full text PDFs from web pages or cite web pages themselves, then Paperpile is very useful. It stores all PDFs in Google Drive too, which makes them easy to find and access.
To set an account you’ll need a license key, please contact the library administrator to receive it.
Getting started with Paperpile