[carbocation]

Luckily, my Linux desktop was still running an old version of Mendeley so I was able to make the switch.

My reason for wanting to switch was that Zotero has Google Docs integration. After making the switch, I was pleased to pay a modest amount for storage of my PDFs, which makes me feel like a customer instead of a product.

[leemailll]

If your institution does offer f1000 subscription, I suggest you take a look at f1000 workspace.

[ramraj07]

This is literally the worst thing you can do. Even a tenured professor doesn't seem to stay in the same institution for their lifetime nowadays so why would you go to a service that even you personally cannot pay for yourself (reasonably)?

[bocklund]

It's $10/month for premium?

https://f1000workspace.com/#plans

[leemailll]

And online storage space is unlimited https://guides.lib.unc.edu/comparecitationmanagers

[leemailll]

F1000 offers tools to transfer an account to another email address. Why this makes you think it is "the worst thing you can do"?

[black_puppydog]

Apart from it being domain specific (according to wikipedia) it is also not open source, so recommending this as a reaction to the Mendeley news is... words fail me... :|

[leemailll]

What do you mean "domain specific"? Personal subscription is also available. And of the popular online reference managers, I don't think open source by itself certify anything related to the core functions of a reference manager. In my opinion, the really established open source ref manager is BibTeX, however, its user base is quite limited even inside academy to specific fields.

[black_puppydog]

Wikipedia on f1000 workspace:

> It includes a Word plug-in, from which you're able to directly search PubMed [...]

That sounds like it's at least focusing on medicine as a field (and generally fields in which Word documents are an acceptable means of dissemination...)

Regarding open source: Being open source is certainly not core to the functionality of a reference manager. But it does protect you from exactly the kind of behaviour shown by Mendeley here. So recommending a "solution" for the situation that has exactly the same drawback as the Mendeley (i.e. vendor lock-in) is short-sighted in the extreme.

[boyband6666]

I gave this a try, but sadly it came up short. For writing a single paper of MSc Thesis, it might work. However it just doesn't seem suited for handling a large number of references for a variety of projects, which get called on frequently as standard references in papers, reference material, and much more.

If it helps I have just under 2000 papers in my Zotero. It isn't massive by research standards, but it is substantial.

[leemailll]

Try to group into different projects in F1000. One thing I still don't like about F1000 is the reference manager need to go online for entries, so it kind of slow on first call. By the way, i don't how you cite when writing, but for me, I mostly handle that part after I finish the writing. At the places citations needed in the manuscript, I often just put a mark saying #somebody's paper on somethin#, and then do the job all the once. There always some really prolific guys make the citation search taking too much time to break to flow.

[andrepd]

Hmm, I thought this would be a lesson to illustrate what happens when you depend on proprietary software...

[carbocation]

Thanks for the recommendation. The features look interesting, and it supports my basic requirement (adding citations to Google Docs).