Our award-winning reference manager will dramatically improve the way you discover, organize, read, annotate, share and cite. Papers offers web, desktop, and mobile reference management apps designed to dramatically improve the way researchers find, access, organize, read, share, and cite research literature.
Learn more about our individual licenses. As part of Papers Enterprise service, we make full-text access fast and simple. Let us help manage your existing journal subscriptions and ensure existing resources are used to their fullest - no matter where your teams are. On a par with Reference Manager from the late 90's, but without the loading up stacks of floppy disks.
Really don't understand why they took over Papers unless it was to kill off a competitor. They have certainly done that by stripping out out nearly every key functionality Papers 3 had and replacing it with nothing useable.
Even something as simple as trying to search for an author with a first initial to cut out the irrelevant results is excruciatingly painful. There is simply nothing in the Read Cube version that is any better than just going to PubMed and trying to find stuff there. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, even if was free. As a scientist publishing research articles this app is clearly not aimed at my demographic.
I have now deleted it out of frustration and for the time being resorting to asking my coauthors at other institutions who still have proxy access to obtain articles for me. I've worked with a couple of free reference managers and they all had their issues, so I tried the paid version of papers, but it's much better than the free once.
It's buggy, slow and reference information doesn't update probably, updating multiple items at the same time doesn't work properly. If you're hoping to finally get a decent working reference manager and are willing to spend money on it, don't go for Papers3. Can you actually but the program for fix a amount or you have to pay monthly for a year subscription? This will be my first app to organise my research documents.
Is it worth it or should I deal with the free versions first? BrookeL Feb 26 Pros: User friendly when it works, which is the exception. Cons: Crashes constantly, freezes, rescinds permission to integrate citations into word documents, unpredictable, which is extremely inconvenient when you are trying to make a deadline. Tech support only periodically responds to requests for assistance. Summary: Would not recommend. Mgfriedrich Feb 6 It's still the best reference manager out there.
Intuitive, user-friendly, best workflow for finding and then integrating references from any application on the Mac. Great for researching a large library. Unfortunately, it has been bought by Readcube, which still is lagging behind with integrating the functionality of Papers 3. So the future is a bit unclear, but I will stick with Papers 3, until Readcube Papers reaches that level. Papers 3. The app works fine for what I do and I've had it for a long time.
But if it doesn't suit you, I've read that Bookends is a good alternative. Version 3. It won't crash but it's not responding. Anyone tried the new version? Seems like it is a version "4". Awful software. Papers 1 and 2 were great. Papers 3 leave well alone. Go elsewhere, save your money and time. Too many software glitches and poorly constructed compared to papers 1 and 2. I took the trouble of creating a MacUpdate account just to leave a bad review for this app.
Paper2 used to be great, but Papers3 is a useless piece of crap that behaves as though it is in full beta stage. Expect regular sudden crashes software exits and other bugs. Mindplay Dec 1 I used it since inception and it was a great product. Unfortunately since v2 developers kind of lost direction and now it's just a really buggy piece of cranky software that doesn't do any real good. Now even subscription based?
You really have to inflict it on yourself HappyPig Oct 26 I'm done with this program. Used to be so good, papers1 loved it, papers2 added some useful functions, like "copy settings", awesome! I want quick look as full screen!!
Now: Papers 3… looks less colorful, less fun, - red flags turned black, purple folders turned grey Where is the awesome "sound" when sending pdf by mail?? I have the feeling this turned into windows grey world I want papers back!!!! Most important : why is it so much slower than papers 2???
HappyPig Apr 12 So many visual bugs - large chunks of pdfs are seemingly overlaid with white squares that disappear when you click on them. The developers know about it apparently, but as their bug ticket system is private, no one else can know that they know until they are asked. And I don't have much hope for this being fixed anytime soon, as I think the programmers are a skeleton crew after the ReadCube merger.
Every time I write a bug in the ticket for which is forever marked private the response I get includes some text pimping ReadCube as an alternative.
Just fix Papers - to heck with ReadCube! Hopeless now, almost unusable! ReadCube has drained the resources supposed to be used to fix bugs in current version.
Papers was recently acquired by Labtiva, Inc. More importantly, the company is backed by Digital Science, a division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd, and is the developer of the app ReadCube. What this all means for Papers' users is unclear. Good products, like Sente and Bookends, started out well but were never properly financed. Consequently researchers like myself have been in a difficult situation left with incomplete and buggy software. A big problem is that software designers do not understand the needs of power-researchers in terms of organizing and reorganizing their reference based data for multiple projects.
Sente was excellent but no longer supported and Bookmarks powerful but not fully modernized; needs a basic rebuild. That left Papers, which had lot's of promise not yet realized. So now we are largely left with Labtiva and Mendeley - backed by good financing. Let's hope they are not obsessively focused on the Internet and do deliver the sort of functionality required by power researches.
Connecting with other researchers is great Thank you. PS: I work with about 11, references in a database built up over the past years or more, a critical research tool. I have used End Note, Sente, Bookends at one time or another. I was about to consider a migration to Papers when I found out about the sale. Bookends has a lot of power, but needs a basic re-write and modernization to stamp out nasty bugs and make it easier to use.
The Philosofox Mar 29 BUT: it's getting better again and my suffering although still there gets diminished on a monthly basis. I don't regard the competition as superior and feel slowly entitled to recommend it again instead of Zotero. I hope that Springer Press — the acquirer — increases its investment in this app's development and helps Papers to live up to its true potential.
AnnL Jan 25 The program is still unable to create automatically bibliographies in Nisus and Mellel, the two preferred Mac word processors for academic writing. I have been a Papers user since v. It is my research inbox, because it remains best of class for: 1. Plus it has good library search. But personally, I think Papers has always been bad at most other reference-manager functions, so I use Endnote when I write. The feedback was so bad that the developers took their support forum private to stop the negative word-of-mouth--and it's still private, btw.
Maybe even worse, since meanwhile the developers had sold out to one of the big publishing conglomerates, and were focused more on a PC version than on making the Mac app work. On the plus side, match still works. The minus side outweighs this gain, however: 1. The grey-on-grey interface with limited customizability is not readable by my middle aged eyes. That's the main problem with the interface, although as the top review also commented, there are numerous annoying lapses.
For example: The match button is sometimes there, sometimes not. Tabs are not tabs. There are even more clicks than before to do basic tasks--e.
The uncustomizable top bar gives quick access to some functions I use all the time e. If I stick with the file-renaming function, Papers will not sync across platforms. When sync is enabled, Papers 3 gives all PDFs unintelligible names. Thus I can either have sync or file renaming, not both. If you highlight or take notes in the PDF, you'll be able to view, search, and filter these annotations outside of the PDF by clicking on the notes icon at the top of the article record.
Right-click on the "All Papers" icon located near the top of the toolbar on the left-hand side of your screen No right mouse button? Click on the gear icon instead. Type your desired list name in the Create List box that appears and click "Create. In addition to importing single articles via the "Add to Library" button that follows you around the web, you can import larger lists of references into Papers from.
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