I often like to look at alternative software solutions out there because you can find newer, better featured, up to date, less expensive, alternative OS software titles when you do a little side research on it.

I ran a search on google for ‘endnote alternative’ 1). This gave me the first listing, which was a very good forum with user suggestions from 2007 of alternative software. Overall, there were 8 alternatives listed throughout the informative forum discussion, with 3 of them being serious contenders for my choice.

The factors I am looking for in the Biblio software:

• Integration with current data import standards (endnote, bibtex, .ris)
• Ability to add data to each record (for custom referencing/notes in project)
• Integration with other cutting-edge tech resources and features
• Ease of use
• Excellent UI
• Cheap, free, or trial software

1. iPapers - http://homepage.mac.com/toshihiro_aoyama/iPapers/
2. BibDesk - http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/
3. JabRef - http://jabref.sourceforge.net
4. Zotero.org - http://www.zotero.org
5. CiteULike.org - www.citeulike.org
6. Papers - http://mekentosj.com/papers/
7. OpenOffice Bibliographic - http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/
8. Wikindx - http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/

Runs off of books, papers, research, etc. Can output findings into BibTex or EndNote, among other lesser known outputs. You have to export each finding individually.

• http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=financial+technical+analysis&hl=en&lr=

Went to UMBC Research Port, browsed databases by subject type, selected ‘Economics’, got back a list of half a dozen databases or so, picked the database with the most economic based name. Database chosen lead to “Social Science Research Network”. Ran a simple search on ‘market prediction’.

Possibly no export option for bibliography support. May have to manually add papers from this resource, into my bibliography list.

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