Papers (software)
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Screen shot of Papers 1.6
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| Developer(s) | ReadCube |
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| Stable release |
3.2.3 (Mac)
3.0.15 (Windows) / July 2014 (Mac, Windows, iOS, Online) |
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Mac Windows |
| Type | Reference management software |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www.papersapp.com |
Papers is a reference management software for Mac OS X and Windows, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. It is primarily used to organize references and maintain a library of PDF documents and also provides a uniform interface for document repository searches, metadata editing, full screen reading and a variety of ways to import and export documents.
Papers was developed by Alexander Griekspoor and Tom Groothuis while studying towards their Ph.D.s at the Netherlands Cancer Institute. Faced with working with hundreds of digital publications in PDF format, the pair worked on Papers to provide an iTunes-like approach to document management. Papers was originally released as a public preview in February 2007, followed by the full 1.0 version a few months later. A new version of the software was released and put for sale in the third quarter of 2013, along with a new iPhone/iPad app. Both products went under a considerable amount of criticism from new and returning users, who experienced a number of issues, ranging from lost databases and annotations to incompatibility between mobile and desktop apps. Users criticised Mekentosj and Springer, respectively developer and owner of Papers, for putting up for sale a beta version of the software and their slowness in addressing problems that effectively rendered the software unusable.
On March 16, 2016, ReadCube acquired Papers from Springer Nature for an undisclosed amount.
With the release of Papers2 in March 2011, Papers now also offers full EndNote-style reference citation features. Papers2 allows for users to access their library and insert citations across many different applications, whether in documents, presentations, or in web browsers. Papers offers a familiar user interface and a number of features for collecting, curating, merging and linking articles.
A new version for Mac was released in late 2013: Papers 3. This version introduces a redesigned user interface and dropbox based syncing, which has subsequently being expanded to other cloud-based repositories.
Papers for Windows was first released in 2012 following the success of the Mac application. A new version, now Papers 3 for Windows, has been released late July 2014 following the redesign of the Mac and iOS applications earlier. This new version streamlines the user experience and the features available from the Mac application. Papers 3 for Windows now also brings unified search to this platform. It supports dropbox syncing between Mac and iOS devices running Papers as well as Papers Online.
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