This is about the interaction between changfes in the way science is produced and shared and innovations inn reference management systems.

1. The future of
reference
management
systems:
technology – people
– institutions
20130924, Jeroen Bosman
@jeroenbosman
http://www.slideshare.net/hierohiero

2. Ref tool evolution
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< 1984 Reference Manager
< 1988 Endnote
X Procite
Refworks
Zotero
X Connotea
CiteUlike
BibSonomy
(Mekentosj) Papers
Mendeley
RefWorks Flow
Citavi
Qiqqa
Colwiz
Authorea
classic
social bookmarking
full text workflow
research organising, authoring

3. beyond reference management
like Mendeley + task planning + team work
like Mendeley + OCR + library classification
+ ref analysis + team work + PDF conversion + browser
like Mendeley + research planning + event managing
+ cloud drive + calendar
Authoring tool in LaTex or Markdown format + collaboration +
templates + citation styles + citing by DOI and URL

4. REF TOOL
CURSE
>100 >5000
PDF-versions
RIS, La
tex, X
ML

5. Looking at each other
• Commercial consolidation:
– Thomson (Endnote family)
– Springer (Papers)
– Elsevier (Mendeley)
– Proquest (RefWorks)
• Functionality convergence
• Crucial remain:
– choice for desktop and/or web version
– options for collaborating/co-authoring

6. Changes in academia
• Rise and rise of the PDF
• Online search, full text search
• Big science, co-authoring
• Sharing, social suggesting
• Open Access
• Open source (e.g. Open Office)
• Data citation and publishing
(e.g. Scientific Data)
• Preprints
• Online first
• Versioned publishing
• Nanopubs, semantic publishing
• Mobile
• Open review
Overview: force11.org/tools
what, wh
ere, how
we cite
and write

7. Reference personae
• Organizer: tag, filter, classify, option lover
• Risk avoider: classic tool and saves full text
• Counting the seconds: demands desktop tool
• Change avoider: can barely manage the tech
• Follow the (tech) leader: no opinion
• Tech lover: switches easily
• Play it by the rules: style sensitivity
• Capitalizer: won’t switch

8. Disciplines – “we are diffferent!”
• LaTex in computer
science, physics, maths, philosophy
• Custom styles for books etc. in humanities
• Vast co-authoring in life science and physics
• Manual entry in humanities

9. Student/researcher
• Personal device
configuration
• Varying demands
Library
• User support
• Instruction, training
• Guides
• Admin, customization
RefWorks
• Help, libguide
• Webinars
• Admin cite/community
• Support, for
• end user
• library admin
• WNC version notes
• Community FAQ
University IT
• Installing WNC
• Network performance
• Office updates
• Browser policy
• Device support (or not)
Support quadrangle
closer cooperation

10. Irreproducability
• WNC version (3/4)
• OS type and version (Windows/iOS)
• Browser type and version (IE/FF/Chrome)
• Text editor type and version
• On/off campus

11. Cloud, BYOD, advising
• Avoid installing
• Support devices
• Advise on tools choice and use
But can’t know it all → community