I am thinking of buying Zotero or Endnote X8
I have been checking Zotero software features whether it caters to a group project purpose. My team would be around 5 people and we want to share account; this will facilitate us to share, copy, and merge our work.
I have some questions listed below.
1. Do you have activity log function that can keep track who did what modification?
2. If we are 5 people and we want to get the unlimited version for each person, would it be 120 USD per person per year?
3. What if some of us 6 GB and other team members have 2 GB or unlimited, in such cases, does the synchronization work? Do we all have to get the same size to be able to collaborate the work?
4. Let's say if we find resources from the database on the internet and save it to Zotero, can we highlight and comment on it? after that can we also download it from Zotero to my desktop and does the highlight and comment carryover?
5. Can Zotero transfer all the citation from Endnote to Zotero?
Could you please give me a phone number that I can contact directly? or you can call me back anytime as soon as you can.
If you have any other useful information for us, please let me know.
Thank you.
I have some questions listed below.
1. Do you have activity log function that can keep track who did what modification?
2. If we are 5 people and we want to get the unlimited version for each person, would it be 120 USD per person per year?
3. What if some of us 6 GB and other team members have 2 GB or unlimited, in such cases, does the synchronization work? Do we all have to get the same size to be able to collaborate the work?
4. Let's say if we find resources from the database on the internet and save it to Zotero, can we highlight and comment on it? after that can we also download it from Zotero to my desktop and does the highlight and comment carryover?
5. Can Zotero transfer all the citation from Endnote to Zotero?
Could you please give me a phone number that I can contact directly? or you can call me back anytime as soon as you can.
If you have any other useful information for us, please let me know.
Thank you.
2. It depends what you're really after. If you work on one group library together, only the person who is the owner of the library needs to buy any storage. For every person who needs unlimited storage for their personal library or for a group they own, you do need an unlimited account. You could also have one shared account (which again, would require only one paid account) but I'd advise against that.3. See 2. a group library only every counts against one person's storage so this doesn't matter.
4. PDF annotations made with a standard annotation tool such as Acrobat, Preview, or Foxit are saved directly to PDF files and sync across devices and export out of Zotero. There's currently no way to annotate html files (other than to convert them to PDF)
5. Yes
There's no phone support or sales for Zotero
4. That's great that it carryovers the highlights and notes from Zotero to a personal desktop.
3. I would like to confirm with you the shared account. Except for the group owner,
all other group members can use the free version and the owner choose the paid account. What if the owner wants to pay for the 6GB and later on the owner wants to add another extra GB, how much would it be?
6. Can all the recourses be stored as PDF?
6. They can be but not automatically. You'd need to do the conversion yourself
7. Depends on a lot of things, but for regular use, Zotero is quite fast. There may be some slowdown for very large libraries (~>30,000 items) and in very large (book length) documents, though the latter just improved https://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-5-0-36/