Collaborative reference management and note taking

Posted by Dr Andus
Mar 26, 2014 at 09:38 AM

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
Within the context of a major project I’m looking for a tool to create a
>collaborative database of reference documents and notes. As a minimum,
>it should be able to handle the following:
> >- Collaborative references/bibliographies
>- Attachments (the referenced documents themselves)
>- Tagging
>- Collaborative notes (not necessary wiki-like; conversation threads may
>be a good alternative)

Hm, that’s a tough set of criteria, especially if you want an all-in-one solution… I’m presuming that by “references/bibliographies” you mean academic type references and bibliographies, such as downloading/importing them from online academic journals and then formatting the bibliography in a word processor like MS Word or LibreOffice?

Services that come to mind:

Paperpile: https://paperpile.com/features
http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/5152/0/paperpile-web-and-chrome-based-academic-writing-and-referencing-system

EasyBib: http://googledrive.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/add-ons.html
http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/5314/0/easybib—referencing-add-on-for-google-doc

EndNote Web: https://www.myendnoteweb.com/

I imagine EndNote’s main competitors would all try to offer something similar, so it might be worth checking them out.