It appears the first issue will be dealt with in future releases of the program (see the sync preview). Issues I’ve had with Zotero: 1) Difficulty synchronizing across computers (online, or on a USB drive), 2) No rating system for keeping track of article quality. Zotero can also save links relating articles to each other, as well as notes attached to articles. Citations can then be exported to a referene manager (e.g., EndNote) or a bibliography can be generated directly. Zotero interfaces with search websites to allow importing of citations and PDFs. This multi-platform Firefox extension provides an effective way to search and organize articles, all within the web browser. It has a folder system, a rating system, and many other features that make it easy to keep track of which articles are important for what topic and how much depth-of-reading each warrants. Citation information can be imported easily, and PDFs of articles can be easily attached to citation meta-data. This (Mac-only) program uses many innovative concepts for organizing music in Apple’s iTunes and applies them to organizing research articles. One of the most useful programs I’ve come across in a long time is Papers. Using programs to organize science reading Individual journals typically have their own RSS feeds, making updates on journal publications very easy to keep up with. Multiple searches can be used for RSS feeds. Websites (or programs) like Google Reader can be used to keep up with the latest articles published that fit your search criteria. RSS feeds can be used to save searches and have any new items sent to you automatically. The consistent link, citation, and abstract-viewing interface makes Scopus often more effective than Google Scholar. Google Scholar also has this feature, but in my experience there are more false-positives than with Scopus. It’s very useful for seeing all the papers that have cited a particular article, and all the papers that article has cited. Scopus is “the largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources”. It’s also useful because citations can be quickly imported into programs like EndNote, and articles that are often unavailable on other websites are made available via Google’s indexing. It uses Google’s legendary indexing algorithms to make keyword searching a breeze, while browsing citation links can reveal a chain of publications on a topic. This website is extremely useful for exploring a comprehensive collection of research on a particular topic. The applications are useful for organizing articles. The websites are useful for searching and subscribing to syndicated (RSS) feeds. I have found that using a combination of computer applications and websites can be effective for keeping up with science readings. I will briefly describe some methods I’ve recently discovered to help deal with this onslaught of new information. Keeping up with new findings is constantly becoming more difficult with the rate of publication in just cognitive neuroscience increasing by over 200 per year, with an overall increase of 2333 over the last ten years (see figure below).