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| Developer(s) | Mekentosj |
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| Stable release | 2.0.1 |
| Operating system | Mac OS X |
| Type | reference management software |
| License | proprietary |
| Website | Papers Home |
Papers is reference management software for Mac OS X, 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.
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.
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Papers was developed by Alexander Griekspoor and Tom Groothuis whilst studying towards their PhDs 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.
Versions of Papers are available from the iTunes App Store for iPhone and iPad, and provide much of the search and article management found on the desktop, along with the ability to synchronise articles from an existing Papers library, and back up that library.
Papers won an Apple Design Award in 2007, for the best Mac OS X Scientific Computing Solution.
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