The Best 58 Docear 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

  • 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

  • TiddlyMap

    TiddlyMap is a TiddlyWiki plugin that turns your favourite personal note taking software in a wiki-concept-map hybrid! Yes, you will be able to do both: drawing maps and putting down knowledge in a wiki way.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Android iPhone Android Tablet Chrome OS Web

  • Academia.edu

    is a social networking website for academics. The platform can be used to share papers, monitor their impact, and follow the research in a particular field.

    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

  • Bookends

    Bookends is a commercial reference management software package for Mac OS X that is used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. Its target market is students, academics and professionals.

    Commercial Mac OS X iPhone iPad

  • TextCite

    Program for organizing and commenting textual citations from texts (books, articles, or other published works) for use in producing scientific or academic publications.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • 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

  • Refeus

    Refeus is a software to simplify scientific work. Refeus supports the complete workflow from collecting and managing content and publications to write and publishing documents.

    Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • MarginNote

    MarginNote is a powerful reading and study software made for learners. It's a feature-packed PDF and EPUB reader built for learning, managing and note taking.

    Commercial

  • Mindix

    Mindix offers a very simple, clean and organized environment to capture ideas and take notes while conducting brainstorming sessions.

    Free Mac OS X iPhone iPad

  • Peerlibrary

    PeerLibrary is an open source project developing a collaborative online community where scholars and researchers can discover, read, and discuss scholarly literature all within one site.

    Free Open Source Web

  • OutWit Hub

    OutWit Hub explores the depths of the Web for you, automatically collecting and organizing data and media from online sources. OutWit Hub breaks down Web pages into their different constituents.

    Freemium Mac OS X Windows Linux Firefox

  • Mind Vector

    Mind Vector is a mind mapping software, which is used for mind map, concept mapping, brainstorming, business planning and managing ideas. It is a web-based software...

    Free Mac OS X Android iPhone iPad Web