Colwiz - Free research collaboration software from Oxford

Posted by Dr Andus
Mar 12, 2011 at 10:00 PM

Wojciech wrote:
>Mark, many thanks for the information. I really like this idea. Do you know more
>projects of this type, perhaps?
>Best regards,
>Wojciech

Mendeley (http://www.mendeley.com/) and Zotero http://www.zotero.org/groups/) do something similar. There is also http://www.researchgate.net/, though I don’t know if there is any downloadable software with that. Qiqqa (http://www.qiqqa.com) also seems to be heading into that direction. There is of course EndNote and other traditional referencing packages.

However, I’m most impressed with Citavi so far (http://www.citavi.com/). It seems by far the most sophisticated and most powerful, in terms of analytical features.

These also differ on the basis of revenue models. Either you pay a lot of money for the software upfront or they are free but there is built-in advertising or you will have to start paying once you exceed the online storage. Usually the ones you pay for tend to give you more features and more control, and they still might have online back-up and communities.