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What do you mean "domain specific"? Personal subscription is also available. And of the popular online reference managers, I don't think open source by itself certify anything related to the core functions of a reference manager. In my opinion, the really established open source ref manager is BibTeX, however, its user base is quite limited even inside academy to specific fields.


Wikipedia on f1000 workspace:

> It includes a Word plug-in, from which you're able to directly search PubMed [...]

That sounds like it's at least focusing on medicine as a field (and generally fields in which Word documents are an acceptable means of dissemination...)

Regarding open source: Being open source is certainly not core to the functionality of a reference manager. But it does protect you from exactly the kind of behaviour shown by Mendeley here. So recommending a "solution" for the situation that has exactly the same drawback as the Mendeley (i.e. vendor lock-in) is short-sighted in the extreme.




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