"Reuters claims George Mason is violating its license agreement and destroying the EndNote customer base". Don't know about the first, but there's nothing I'd like to see more than the second. That's it, Thomson are officially "evil" and must be eradicated. - Neil Saunders

I just don't get it. The case seems to be based on the fact that the new version can convert Endnote Style Files therefore they must have reverse engineered the Endnote software in violation of the licence agreement. But there are style files for Endnote all over the place. You don't need to have gone anywhere near Endnote to get them surely? Are they claiming copyright over a file format?!? - Cameron Neylon

How short sighted. If I were Zotero, I'd just dump the converter and stick with Bibtex - why even try to be cross-compatible with EndNote? You would think that Thomson would appreciate the interoperability developed for them for free. God knows how slow they are to implement anything, and when they do it's usually half-baked. - Todd Harris

I suspect whoever out of citeulike/Mendeley etc who gets a properly functioning word plugin is probably going to wipe Endnote out in very short order - Cameron Neylon

@cameron. Fully agree. Once there's word integration EndNote is over. - Todd Harris

I'm with Zotero but this was only a matter of time, really! Am not looking forward to the first 'we'll store your papers in the cloud for you' court case. - Euan

I've been saying that for years, Cameron, but the integration still isn't here. I do understand to some degree the magnitude of the task, but also I think some effort has been wasted wishing people would just start using LaTeX instead of Word. - Mr. Gunn

@Todd/Cameron/Mr. Gunn: Hope I won't have to eat my words later on, but regarding the Word plugin for Mendeley - it should be available within the next two weeks :-) Closely followed by better LaTeX integration and an OpenOffice plugin. - Victor / Mendeley Team

@Victor, will the Word plugin actually maintain reference ordering and update cites throughout the document when a new references is inserted? - Rajarshi Guha

LaTeX is absolutely a non-starter for non-coding types. As is any type of command line interface. Open office would be better than Word but that's probably a non-starter as well. Integration with a word processor is very very hard, and I understand that, but without it, I just don't see any literature management system going anywhere really. Now if Endnote could just use my citeulike library _as_ its library - Cameron Neylon

Victor - was avoiding saying anything about that but am very much looking forward seeing what you roll out. - Cameron Neylon

Looking forward to it here as well, Victor. - Mr. Gunn

Is it just me or is blogspot running like a pig on stilts? I can't view Rafel Sidi's original entry because "The server at rafaelsidi.blogspot.com is taking too long to respond"... - Duncan Hull

It's just you Duncan - Rafael links to http://stephenslighthouse.sirs... - Cameron Neylon

From the complaint: "Zotero (...) which accesses, uses converts and/or distributes, in whole or in part, Thomson's proprietary EndNote Destop software product (...), without authorization and in direct violation of the express terms and conditions of GMU's license agreement with Thomson, and which, due to the freely distributable, open source nature of Zotero, (...) cause irreparable harm to Thomson." ... some BS - Pedro Beltrao

Here is the full complaint in PDF format (http://www.courthousenews.com/2008...). They are asking for $10.000 per year until Zotero removes the converter for Endnote files. - Pedro Beltrao

@Rajarshi: Yes, it will! It will also adjust/update the in-text citation format and reference ordering when you change the citation style during editing. - Victor / Mendeley Team

This is indeed not a very smart PR move by Thomson Reuters. I'm looking forward to the Mendeley Word plugin, but Refworks and Sente (for Macintosh) also integrate with Microsoft Word. My Mendeley profile: http://www.mendeley.com/beta... - Martin Fenner

I wasn't using zotero, but now I'll give it a try! - Björn Brembs

Strangely reminiscent of this TED talk by Charles Leadbeater: Publishers vs. Innovators... http://www.ted.com/index... - Duncan Hull