Reference Management Software's (RMS): A Boon to Changing Scholarly Communication Landscape

This paper presents about the reference management software's (RMS) as a boon to changing the scholarly communication. With the rapid applications of ICT in academic and research area to scientific writing and scholarly communication, several significant reference management software's are available online and offline. Today, reference management software are widely used by academicians and researchers to reference management and fastly communicate to other researchers at global level. Reference management Software's are useful to create accurate and systematic referencing in research works carry out by academicians and researchers. RMS is key role changer to enhance the quality of work and changing the scholarly communication landscape. Currently, several popular reference management software's are freely available on Internet like RefWorks, EndNote, BibDesk, Zotero, Connotea, Mendeley, CiteULike, Reference Manager and Referencer etc. The advanced features of these software's is very helpful to support effective reference management. This paper also presents the practical approach with “Mendeley” (a Reference Management Software) to store references, automatically citing references and rapidly scholarly communication for future researches at global level. Lastly, I focus on features of RMS which are changing the scholarly communication landscape.