The Best 26 Bookends Alternatives

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    Zotero

    Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox/Chrome extension or standalone program to help you collect, organize, manage, search and cite your research sources directly in your favourite word processor, with 300 MB free online storage.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Chrome Firefox Safari Microsoft Office Word LibreOffice

  • JabRef

    JabRef is an open source bibliography reference manager. The native file format used by JabRef is BibTeX, the standard LaTeX bibliography format.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Docear

    Docear is a unique solution to academic literature management, which helps you organizing, creating, and discovering academic literature. The 3 most distinct features are: 1.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • Papers

    Papers helps you collect and curate the research material that you're passionate about.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows iPhone iPad Web

  • Citavi

    Reference management and knowledge organization with integrated task planner. Solution for work groups with data sharing in intranet available.

    Freemium Windows

  • Paperpile

    Organize your research papers in a Gmail-like web app, sync your PDFs to Google Drive and cite your references in Google Docs.

    Commercial Web Chrome Google Drive - Docs Google Drive Google Scholar

  • EndNote

    A reference management software, used for searching online publication databases, & managing publications / bibliographies, with the ability to insert the references into a word processor.

    Commercial Windows iPad Web

  • BibDesk

    BibDesk is a bibliographic reference manager for Mac OS X. BibDesk is designed to help organize and use bibliographic databases in BibTeX .bib format. BibDesk integrates well with TeX for creating citations and bibliographies.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X

  • colwiz

    colwiz is free software for researchers, academics and students. The iPad, iPhone and iPod touch version sync your research articles, attachments and annotations with the Desktop App over the internet.

    Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad Web

  • Benubird PDF

    Benubird PDF makes personal document management simple: capture, organize and retrieve your PDF documents effortlessly. Managing files is easy with virtual folders and powerful metadata filters.

    Free Windows

  • BibSonomy

    BibSonomy is a system for sharing bookmarks and lists of literature (BibTex format). When discovering a bookmark or a publication on the web, you can store it on our...

    Free Web

  • EasyBib

    Automatic works cited and bibliography formatting for MLA, APA and Chicago/Turabian citation styles. Now supports 7th edition of MLA.

    Freemium Android iPhone Chrome OS Web Google Drive - Docs

  • RefWorks

    RefWorks - an online research management, writing and collaboration tool - is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

    Commercial Mac OS X Windows Linux Web

  • bibme

    BibMe is a free automatic citation creator that supports MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian formatting. BibMe leverages external databases to quickly fill citation information for you.

    Free Web

  • Weava

    Weava is a collaborative workplace for research offering an easy way to highlight, organize and collaborate on your research articles.

    Freemium Web Chrome

  • PubChase

    Read More, Search Less. Stay up to date with biomedical research relevant to you! Get personalized recommendations Build your cloud library and PubChase will...

    Free Android iPhone Android Tablet iPad Web