Documentation Management software Mendeley defects (corrections, additions)

Documentation Management software Mendeley defects (corrections, additions)

I have been using the document management software Mendeley, but also on the blog warmly recommend it. But I recently updated my computer and found no way to move the entire document library (thousands of items, including papers and books) to a new computer. My library has many entries with links to the corresponding PDF files in the hard drive. When I move to a new computer, these links are all invalid, even if I move those PDFs to a new computer with the exact same path as the folder. Of course, I can open those entries and re-establish those links. But I don't think it's a good solution. How to change the new computer later.

Another option is to buy a cloud storage on the mendeley.com website, upload a PDF of the old computer, and download it from the cloud storage on the new computer. Helpless in the upload process is always wrong, only upload a part of the stop. It cost money, still did not solve the problem.

Search from the Internet, see a lot of Mendeley users have the same problem, but there is no solution, even if the Mendeley company's people come out to answer, but also give ambiguous answers.

Another flaw in Mendeley: The database of your documents is synchronized with the Mendeley network. If you operate on the computer error, you can not use the computer backup to restore the original, because Mendeley Open, immediately with the online synchronization, and online your database only now version, and no past version. The general feeling is that you are tied to death.

Although Mendeley is free, it is not open source. Mendeley Company was founded by three German doctoral students, the original may also have the enthusiasm for serving the person, but later was the scientific publication of the Big Head Elsevier acquired. Elsevier of course, for profit purposes.

I am now looking for open-source, open-format document management software instead of Mendeley. And not only to save money, but to not be the business interests of others to lead the nose. I am comparing two open source software: Zotero and Docear.

2014.11.25:

The first two days written, a little wronged Mendeley. I said two defects, and later found a solution, is to compare the time.

I also tried Zotero and Docear, found that there is no Mendeley easy to use. Mendeley is relatively simple and convenient to use. The main thing is: Mendeley from the PDF file to extract the title, the author, the function is very strong, non-zotero comparable.

So, I continue to use Mendeley, and still recommend it.

From:http://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-344158-845281.html