ReadCube Reviews & Product Details - Page 15

How I can easily keep track of all of my sources in one place with access to a range of tools on the app. I have to read a lot of journal articles and the ability to highlight and write notes on the docs and then arrange it on Papers kept the literature so organized. Tagging the papers with my own subject heads is an example of how flexible and thoughtful the app is. It's like an online binder with every tool you would need to write a paper. Oh, and the integration into other search engines that allows me to upload a source straight to my online ReadCube Paper library, genius! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Manual input option when the source is not recognized by the app - I should be able to still input the information even if the app doesn't recognize it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like its speed even with my not so small library. The use of the Apple pencil is almost perfect with my iPad Pro and the syncing features do work exactly as you would expect ! And I should not forget the ease of use of metrics and citations that allow you to discover new relevant papers.

Did I also speak of the Chrome extensions that allow you to input some references in your library (and even sub-libraries!) with a single click ! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some minor details still need work: I wish the bib export would be more reliable since book references are not appropriately handled at this moment. Also I am not sure if this is because I did not find the way to correctly use the app but I wonder why it is necessary to scroll an entire library to "load" it on the screen before you can export it as a bib file. For 400 references on medium-sized projects, it is manageable but I have no idea how I will be able to do this if I need to export my entire library...

I also would like to batch edit metadata for references that share some common informations and I miss the cite key autogeneration that we had in Papers (legacy) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The interface is straightforward and it's easy to organize your papers into various categories. I am pleased that a MacOS version is available now that mimics that web version. The integration with MS Word works well, you just have to install a plugin (although my own institution blocked it for while!). The current version appears to be stable and I have not experienced any bogging down when the database become large. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The software is complete enough to be useful but there are still many features that could be added. (1) The ability to search in Pubmed and other databases is gone in ReadCube papers or I am not sure were I can choose (2) The citation for the last imported paper goes into the master database and then you have to drag it into a folder. It would be better if you had the choice immediately where you wanted to file it. (3) Citation entry in MS Word could be more advanced with the ability to see what is in a folder rather than remember a title or a name to search from. (4) I am wondering if I also lost my ability to integrate my university proxy into the MacOS version. It would be helpful to have some visual indication of which databases are currently subscribed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are no features in ReadCube Papers that I like in comparison to the features available in the old stand-alone version of Papers3. I used to like the ability of Papers3 to efficiently search for, download and sort references and associated PDFs, but the efficiency of this workflow is severely curtailed in this "upgrade" to ReadCube papers. Finding and downloading PDFs is more complicated than it used to be and it is not possible to easily open PDFs in an external viewer like Adobe Acrobat (in Papers3 this coudl be done by clicking a simple keyboard shortcut). After three weeks of using ReadCube papers on a daily basis I can report that it is quicker and easier for me to manually search for and download references rather than to continue using the software that I purchased to help me with this process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The new ReadCube Papers makes it significantly more difficult to find and download PDFs due to features that do not seem work (e.g., find PDFs button) and an overall effort to police access to documents that are owned by commercial publishers (like the owners of ReadCube Papers). I find the overall ReadCube papers experience a major step backwards for the Papers platform (which I have used successfully for around 10 years). I will not recommend this software to anyone because, at least for my uses, there are clearly better products on the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Organizing all the information about papers that you are interested.

The ability to import papers directly from your browser.

Highlight important pieces of information and have them available from any device. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The keyword search can improve in specificity of results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This is by far the best bibliographic reference software I have ever used. It is easy to use. It intelligently imports metadata, even if you only import a PDF. Online data storage is simple and robust. The Word plugin is also good, although it could use some keyboard shortcuts like Endnote, or previous versions of Papers. It is much better than Endnote and a step up from Papers 3. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Perhaps the Word plugin could be a little better in terms of integration, but this is a minor issue Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A great tool to manage and annotate references in OS system; easy to synchronize the references to other IOS devices; easy to cite references when writing a paper in Word Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes when reading the reference in the ios app, text which was highlighted in the OS app appears to be shifted... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ReadCube papers offers an online library, which in my view is a clear step up from Papers3 that I used previously. Everything is synced immediately between my computer and my other devices where I read my papers (including notes that I write in the documents) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The main thing I am missing in ReadCube papers is something really obvious that was readily available in previous versions of 'Papers': Alphabetical ordering of the 'author' column sorts the authors according to their last names, but the first name is displayed first. This is simply horrible. If I know that I'm looking for a publication from a guy with the last name Smith, I can't quickly find papers from authors with last name starting with 'S', because their first names are in the way. Papers3 had many options for displaying author names in list view, I don't understand why this didn't make it immediately in ReadCube papers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cloud sync, automatic retrieval of metadata, annotation feature, ability to download the annotations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Cannot search through all of my annotations and cannot choose what gets exported in the .csv. 2. Most of what I read are preprints. Papers is not able to extract titles, nor authors – it could do so if it would integrate with osf.io. Overall, integration with osf.io is badly missing. 3. Essentially no setting for anything. 4. The citing feature for Word does not work at all, the one for Gdoc (beta). Zotero is lightyears ahead. 5. Annotation feature does not work very well in some pdfs and sometimes, it even crashes the app. 6. No ability to set that the added papers download by default. 7. The reader could be faster. 8. Did I mention virtually no support for preprints? That is really annoying. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The browser plugin is the best portion. Along with this the similarity to adobe in the way you can organize and analyze data in a simple and user friendly way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I do not see the need for an internal search engine when you can use google patents and the plug in on the web browser. Also, a lot of relevant papers are in Japanese and it would be nice to find an easy translated alternative. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.