zotero VS jabref

Reference managers like Zotero and Mendeley

I use Zotero[1] as a personal web archiver. It downloads the page locally, placing most of the resources inside a single html file (pictures become base64 encoded pngs, for example). I find it the best way to have the content available offline and also to be able to reference it easily, seeing as it is a citation manager first.

[1] https://www.zotero.org/

> a new academic area

Research papers and books then. I use Google Scholar for searching, and libgen / scihub for the stuff I can't get access to easily.

> I inevitably lose track of papers.

A tools I used in graduate school for keeping track of research papers (and books): Zotero (https://www.zotero.org/).

> I'm curious if there are already tools out there to aggegate open access research by your own criteria (i.e. from specific sources only, prioritise by keyword)?

University Libraries seem to do this; And to a lesser extent smaller libraries associated with communities. Some software that I know of that was related to how my library did things is EZproxy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EZproxy). It manages access to journals and databases, which is at least a part of how to address this point. Otherwise, I'm not aware of a service that does this; Though I will keep an eye on the thread just in case someone else has a good recommendation.

FWIW, I've gotten in the habit of using Zotero (https://www.zotero.org/) with a browser extension to do this. If I read something that I think I might want to reference later, I just hit an extension button and it gets slurped into Zotero with a bunch of information indexed for retrieval later.

Maybe try Zotero[1]. There are many addons which can do what you need.

[1]https://www.zotero.org/

During last 1.5 weeks, I've been implementing second PR in JabRef project. Let me refresh your mind, in the last post I talked how I finished the issue in order to get a new one, there I've shared that I got assigned to another issue. In this post, I'm going to talk in details how I worked on the PR, and what challenges were encountered.

In the previous post, I said that I am going to work on the JabRef's issue, which is true, but there is one thing that I have to mention. For the reason, that I've counted that issue towards my Release 0.2 submission, I am not able to use it for 0.4, and I had to find another issue to work on. However, maintainer refused to assign me to another issue unless I don't finish previous one, so I had to finish it anyway before I'd get assigned to other issue. Therefore, I am going to talk about what I've done within last week.

I think, I will continue working on Issue that was part of my Release 0.2 because I opened PR, but maintainer never accepted it and requested changes. In my opinion, I shouldn't take this issue for 0.2 because I didn't have enough confidence and knowledge to close it. This time I am confident that I am going to be able to finish it.

It took me about 5 hours to figure all out and fix that issue. I opened PR; however, the maintainer found some phantom issue that I couldn't see from my end. It made me focus on it way harder. Took another 2 weeks understanding why I cannot resolve that issue, but I gave up.

JabRef sources on GitHub

JabRef might work for you. Website link and GitHub link.

This issue https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/5867 hints at JavaFX issue with the potential workaround of running with the environment variable GDK_DISPLAY=1.

I use JabRef for managing references, which allows you to generate entries via a DOI and saves to a local .bib file.

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