EndNote vs. Zotero - but it's George Mason University being sued for over $10m.

[sensaes]

"Thomson Reuters, maker of the EndNote bibliographic software, is suing George Mason University and the State of Virginia...The issue is Zotero, an open source bibliographic tool that appears to rapidly increase its market share, as it is much lighter, platform independent, browser plugable and free. Of course, this is not the official reason,

Comments

[lesbiassparrow]

I do not feel that people can say this often enough: people gladly switch from Endnote at the drop of a hat because it is crap. I use it and I do not think I have ever hated a programme so much; I'm just waiting to get enough loathing together to motivate me to shift to another piece of software.

[sensaes]

Well that's the thing about EndNote, really - it seems to polarize opinion so sharply that alternatives were inevitably going to spring up.

JabRef is one you might like to take a look at once your loathing reaches critical mass:

http://jabref.sourceforge.net/

[alv1e]

+1
I use jabref for a few years already and happy with the outcome. It is being developed even more. Never thought about commercial bibliographical software.

[dravogadro]

Thanks for the link. I heard Open Office is supposed to be coming out with its own pretty soon which I think will be interesting.

[sensaes]

Absolutely - it has a dedicated project (OOoBib). Here's the progress page on that one: http://bibliographic.openoffice.org