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I’m using the Papers program for the first time, on a 30-day trial basis.  It seems like one of those programs whose benefits aren’t totally obvious until you really have been using it for a little while.  The problem for me has generally not been having papers scattered on my hard drive — I already have a “papers” directory for this — but rather things like multiple copies and, most crucially, BibTeX export.  I’m banking on BibTeX export saving me enough time to make Papers worth it for that feature alone.  Some thoughts:

• Computational linguistics conference proceedings papers should be obtained through the ACM repository
• Psycholinguistics journal articles work well through Google Scholar.
• JSTOR doesn’t work yet 🙁
• The journal Language can be obtained through Project MUSE.
• I prefer Skim to Preview for PDF reading.  Cmd-Alt-O will open the currently displayed paper in Skim.