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[collegekidsmom]

The other problem is the coverage years. Many universities do not have the backfiles of Web of Science. Scopus is also worth a look as it covers the social sciences better that Web of Science-if you have access. As Scopus and WOS compete in citation analysis in some ways, you might have some luck doing analysis with Scopus. Scopus however, does really only cover 1996 to the present.

Since I am not aware of the particular subject area(s) in which you are interested, I could suggest that you email your ideas to a subject specialist librarian. That person will have access to a network of other subject specialists.

[drgunn]

I tried it. 

The import system is weak.  It collapses all notes attached to a record into one file. There is only a single note field attached to any bib record.  All the tags are imported from the bib record and all the note tags of individual notes disappear.  If you are organized in note taking this is bad. You can only make notes in a side panel, so if you like to write in the big window in zotero, your are SOL. 

Your main issue here seems to be note-taking features, so I thought I'd mention some changes in the latest release.  You can now add sticky notes and annotations directly to a PDF and those annotations get backed up to Mendeley Web, so you can access your PDFs and notes from any computer.  For your style of notetaking, though, I can see why you'd be frustrated.  Would you consider adding a feature request?  Of course, you can always use both systems.

It's true that Mendeley doesn't work with some existing university systems. They're working on that.

[bread_pirate_naan]

Go away, shill.

"I'd rather support and help develop Zotero, which will always be free.  Other than that it is mainly a weak zotero with a social networking function attached.  This is as much a plus for me as wikipedia import function and no relationship to my library."

Or any library, btw.  Only publishers. 

[mjw13]

It seems to me that I've read/seen something about this lately. For starters, try this blog entry: http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2009/not-just-another-pretty-picture/ . It will be a bit too library-statistics specific, but it has links out to other visualization websites.

I would anticipate a major problem being interfacing between whatever software you're storing your citation and note data in (we use RefWorks in our institution) and whatever software you might discover for visualization.

[tee_bee]

Thanks for this. I will look at this. Thompson has (had?) a visualization program that went with Endnote, which I should look into again.

[tee_bee]

And I did quickly read this. Some great ideas. but the blogger waxed poetic about the 3D area chart (Ed Tufte, where are you when we need you?) and actually used the "word" impactful. Just goes to show that good ideas are often buried in horrific prose. But the information itself is. ummm.... impactful, and I will act on it.

[ntdavis52]

Mindmap your Zotero collections with VUE plugin. See 0:50 video overview http://bit.ly/9CWePq and http://bit.ly/aqpLcf for details

[tee_bee]

Mindmap your Zotero collections with VUE plugin. See 0:50 video overview http://bit.ly/9CWePq and http://bit.ly/aqpLcf for details

This looks really cool! This I will definitely try!

[tee_bee]

Ok, took the plunge and returned to Zotero. Some really cool features, but the interface is harder to work with than Endnote. But I am going to write my next four papers using Zotero and see how I like it. The visualization tools will definitely get a test drive, and being able to link citations to related works is really cool.