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Papers (software)
Encyclopedia
Papers is reference management software
for Mac OS X
, used to manage bibliographies
and references when writing essays and articles. It is primarily used to organize references and maintain a library of PDF documents, and also provides a uniform interface for document repository searches, metadata editing, full screen reading and a variety of ways to import and export documents.
With the release of Papers2 in March 2011, Papers now also offers full endnote-style reference citation features. Papers2 allows for users to access their library and insert citations across many different applications, whether in documents, presentations, or in web browsers. Papers offers a familiar user interface and a number of features for collecting, curating, merging and linking articles.
-like approach to document management. Papers was originally released as a public preview in February 2007, followed by the full 1.0 version a few months later.
and iPad
, and provide much of the search and article management found on the desktop, along with the ability to synchronise articles from an existing Papers library, and back up that library.
Reference management software
Reference management software, citation management software or personal bibliographic management software is software for scholars and authors to use for recording and utilising bibliographic citations . Once a citation has been recorded, it can be used time and again in generating bibliographies,...
for Mac OS X
Mac OS X
Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
, used to manage bibliographies
Bibliography
Bibliography , as a practice, is the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology...
and references when writing essays and articles. It is primarily used to organize references and maintain a library of PDF documents, and also provides a uniform interface for document repository searches, metadata editing, full screen reading and a variety of ways to import and export documents.
With the release of Papers2 in March 2011, Papers now also offers full endnote-style reference citation features. Papers2 allows for users to access their library and insert citations across many different applications, whether in documents, presentations, or in web browsers. Papers offers a familiar user interface and a number of features for collecting, curating, merging and linking articles.
Development
Papers was developed by Alexander Griekspoor and Tom Groothuis whilst studying towards their PhDs at the Netherlands Cancer Institute. Faced with working with hundreds of digital publications in PDF format, the pair worked on Papers to provide an iTunesITunes
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-like approach to document management. Papers was originally released as a public preview in February 2007, followed by the full 1.0 version a few months later.
iPhone and iPad
Versions of Papers are available from the iTunes App Store for iPhoneIPhone
The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...
and iPad
IPad
The iPad is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc., primarily as a platform for audio-visual media including books, periodicals, movies, music, games, and web content. The iPad was introduced on January 27, 2010 by Apple's then-CEO Steve Jobs. Its size and...
, and provide much of the search and article management found on the desktop, along with the ability to synchronise articles from an existing Papers library, and back up that library.
Awards
Papers won an Apple Design Award in 2007, for the best Mac OS X Scientific Computing Solution.See also
- Comparison of reference management softwareComparison of reference management software- General :In the "notes" section, there is a difference between:* web-based, referring to applications that may be installed on a web server...
for some comparisons with similar packages.