Manage scientific documents with free tools such as Zotero or Mendeley

Are you wondering whether reference management software can help you organize your watch? To answer this question, we need to look at how they manage scientific publications.

Reference management software has been developed to assist researchers in their publication work, which presupposes a review of nearby scientific literature. It therefore seems natural to mobilize them in a monitoring perspective.

Some, such as Zotero or Mendeley , are free and seem interesting for storing and disseminating scientific information.

This fact sheet will help you better understand the advantages of these tools for :

• monitoring scientific publications and providing an overview of the scientific literature in a given field;

• monitoring the activity of scientific communities present on their online platforms, which have largely developed social functions.