Dear Colleagues, I've just been informed that our campus is losing its site-licence to Endnote, which I've been using for some years. They are recommending Zotero or Mendeley--does anyone have any experience using the latter with Chinese/Japanese bibilography? Any advice would be appreciated! Thanks, Beverly -- Beverly Bossler Professor, History University of California, Davis

I switched from Endnote to Zotero about 5 years ago and find it meets all my CJK bibliography needs.  

Dear Beverly, I have been using both, but not very actively in the last few years (no time for research!). Years ago Mendeley was cool as it was one of the first platforms in which you could upload pdf files and it would harvest the bibliographic details from the pdf you uploaded. Elsevier took it over not too long ago, which makes it far less cool. I just logged in to see what they did with it. I noticed that Elsevier immediately asked me to agree to their terms, but all info was still there. When I first uploaded my pdf files (that may be different now), the bibliographic extraction of CJK materials did not work, but it does accept unicode (filenames for example show up fine in CJK). Zotero remains as far as I know open source. You can easily import your endnote libraries (best to convert them to the other available non-proprietary formats so you can easily import them in a variety of bibliographic software packages); you can also harvest bibliographic data from online sources. And yes it does handle CJK too. You can also set up groups--we started once a Song group with French colleagues. You can also use their API to share libraries to the web (our online bibliographies on comparative history, for example, were created this way--this sometimes generates some work (they occasionally change things). Both have standalone and online versions--mendeley also has apps in case you want to access your info on your phone or tablet. If you have to make a choice, I would go for Zotero; Elsevier has been a pain for many universities to negotiate reasonable deals with--hopefully that will change in the future. Best, Hilde On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 1:18 AM, Beverly Bossler <bjbossler@ucdavis.edu> wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > I've just been informed that our campus is losing its site-licence to > Endnote, which I've been using for some years. They are recommending > Zotero or Mendeley--does anyone have any experience using the latter with > Chinese/Japanese bibilography? Any advice would be appreciated! > Thanks, > Beverly > > -- > Beverly Bossler > Professor, History > University of California, Davis > > > _______________________________________________ > Listserv mailing list > Listserv@mail.songyuan.org > http://mail.songyuan.org/mailman/listinfo/listserv_mail.songyuan.org > >