I just came across Mendeley, a free tool for academics to collect, store (online and locally), and share research publications. Mendeley helps you to organise references and publications, and integrates (if you want it to) with your browser (for easy adding of online documents) and word processor (for citing). It seems to be a neat tool. However, I don’t think I will be using it as I am happy with Zotero, and Mendeley only seems to support pdf files - many of my research documents are in other formats such as word documents, Powerpoint presentations etc [edited to add: one of the people working on Mendeley (?) wrote to me to say that the program does indeed allow including other types of files and will also sync with Zotero, which is excellent}. Nonetheless, this seems interesting so I thought I’d plug it here.

I have been using zotero for a year now. Since importing all my Endnote (or other) references without hassle, I have not looked back.

Zotero is browser-based but works offline. It lets you clip content from webpages and store entire sites as part of your references. It uses all different styles and lets you export references to a wide range of formats. The best part is that you can drag and drop references and tag them (tagging has improved my life to no end!). It is so much faster than Endnote that I wonder how I ever worked without it!

Here are some more features: