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Papers

Screen shot of Papers 1.6

Developer(s)
Papers/Springer Science+Business Media[1]
3.2.3 (Mac)
Stable release
3.0.15 (Windows)[2] / July 2014 (Mac, Windows, iOS, Online)
Mac
Operating system
Windows
Type
Reference management software
License
Proprietary
Website
www.papersapp.com
Papers is a reference management software for Mac OS X and Windows,[3] 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.

Contents
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1 Development
2 Versions
2.1 Mac
2.2 Windows
2.3 iPhone and iPad
2.4 Papers Online
3 Awards
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

Development[edit]
Papers was developed by Alexander Griekspoor and Tom Groothuis while studying towards

their Ph.D.s at the Netherlands Cancer Institute.[1] 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.[1] 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.[4] The company is also criticized for
unresponsive support and the unusual way of handling support matters on a private basis,
i. e no public discussions of bug reports or other matters. [citation needed]
Versions[edit]
Mac[edit]
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.
Windows[edit]
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.
iPhone and iPad[edit]
Versions of Papers are available from the iTunes App Store for iPhone and iPad. The most
recent version was released with the Papers 3 for Mac launch and features unified search
on the iOS app as well. Article management compares to the desktop versions, and in
addition to the standard annotation features the new Papers for iOS also features freehand
annotations. Papers for iOS can be synchronized using dropbox with both the Mac or
Windows applications.
Papers Online[edit]
Papers Online is a new set of services released in conjunction with Papers 3 for Windows. It
works across all platforms (Mac, iOS, and Windows) and offers users a means of sharing
collections of articles. Papers users can create shared collections and access them from a
browser on any other device, and share this collection to be accessed by other Papers
users as well as individuals who are not currently using Papers.

Awards[edit]
Papers won an Apple Design Award in 2007, for the best Mac OS X Scientific Computing
Solution.
See also[edit]

Comparison of reference management software for some comparisons with similar

packages.
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