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Bibdesk vs endnote5/4/2023 Papers allows searching many online databases at once with a cute interface and can find matches to papers through those means, but as ISI keeps messing with their web interface tools, Papers keeps struggling to keep the WoS option alive. Papers made a big effort to work as a bibliographic engine (just as EndNote made an effort to be a pdf manager) I haven't worked with that but suspect it is relatively immature. I've had reasonable success in syncing Papers across laptop and desktop others have used Dropbox for similar uses. In particular, it can download PDFs and link the bibliographic entry with the downloaded PDF (this functionality is contained in the 'File' field of the 'General' tab of the BibTeX entry editor). But means of display and ability to upload/link to libraries on portable devices (iPhone/iPad I use) is very nice and makes it easier to grab a subset of papers for reading in the field or on travel. JabRef is an open-source, cross-platform BibTeX reference manager with much of the same functionality as Bibdesk. While writing the paper, open the bibtex file with Bibdesk and drag the entry. EndNote XML export bugs in BibDesk Version 1.3.21 (1525): -The following short notations list the BibTeX field and the tag shown after the arrow is where the data should go during EndNote XML export. Its greatest weakness is that the search is a bit too stupid-you cannot do boolean searches (e.g., "Laramide and geophysics" or limit a search through different fields) and even phrase searches are screwy. Pull the reference entry from the web with Zotero to a bibtex file stored in DT. A real plus for me is that it will correctly search the ISI Web of Science database accessing Georef is iffier, though I can export from a web-based Georef search into EndNote. I use EndNote for bibliographic work in papers, largely because I've used it for years and so have managed the ins and outs the Word plugin still makes this a good choice if you work within Word.
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