<div dir="ltr"><div>Segnalo questo tweet, da girare ai ricercatori che ancora usano Mendeley:<br>
</div><div><br></div><div>The latest version of Mendeley prevents you from getting all of your
data out of the app. We’ve added instructions for transferring your full
library to Zotero — which will always remain open — while you still
can. <a href="https://t.co/P8Uycgk9nS" rel="nofollow noopener" dir="ltr" class="gmail-twitter-timeline-link" target="_blank" title="https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/mendeley_import"><span class="gmail-tco-ellipsis"></span><span class="gmail-invisible">https://www.</span><span class="gmail-js-display-url">zotero.org/support/kb/men</span><span class="gmail-invisible">deley_import</span><span class="gmail-tco-ellipsis"><span class="gmail-invisible"> </span>…</span></a>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/zotero/status/1006530662784958464">https://twitter.com/zotero/status/1006530662784958464</a> <br></div><div><br></div><div>Copio dalla pagina su Zotero:</div><div>
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Mendeley 1.19 and later have begun encrypting the local database, making
it unreadable by Zotero and other standard database tools. Mendeley
made this change a few months after Zotero publicly announced work on an
importer, despite having long touted the openness of its database
format as a guarantee against lock-in. At the same time, Mendeley
continues to import data from Zotero's own open database.
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The <a href="https://www.mendeley.com/release-notes/v1_19" class="gmail-urlextern" title="https://www.mendeley.com/release-notes/v1_19" rel="nofollow">Mendeley 1.19 release notes</a>
claim that encryption is for “improved security” on shared machines,
but applications rarely encrypt their local data files, as file
protections are generally handled by the operating system with account
permissions and full-disk encryption, and anyone using the same
operating system account or an admin account can already install a
keylogger to capture passwords.
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<p>
Direct access to one’s own Mendeley database is the only way to export
the full contents of one’s own research. The export formats supported by
Mendeley do not contain folders, various metadata fields (date added,
favorite, and others), or PDF annotations, so with an encrypted database
there's no local way to fully export your data out of Mendeley.
Mendeley offers a web-based API, but it only includes file information
if you're syncing your files to Mendeley servers, and it can be changed
or discontinued by Mendeley at any time.
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<br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(103,78,167)">dr. Elena Giglia<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>Unità di progetto Open Access<br>Direzione Ricerca e Terza Missione<br>Universita' degli Studi di Torino<br>tel. +39.011.670<b>.4191</b></span><br></span></div><span style="color:rgb(103,78,167)"><a href="http://www.oa.unito.it" target="_blank">www.oa.unito.it </a></span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>