Qiqqa

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Qiqqa
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Qiqqa is a PDF research management tool and brainstorming tool
Initial release April 2010; 14 years ago (2010-04)
Stable release Qiqqa v73 / February 2015; 9 years ago (2015-02)
Operating system Microsoft Windows
Android
Available in English
Type Reference management software
License Proprietary
Website www.qiqqa.com

Qiqqa (pronounced "Quicker") is a freeware and freemium reference management software[1][2] that allows researchers to work with thousands of PDFs.[3] It combines PDF reference management tools, a citation manager and a mind map brainstorming tool. It integrates with Microsoft Word XP, 2003, 2007 and 2010 and BibTeX/LaTeX to automatically produce citations and bibliographies in thousands of styles. Researchers and research groups can store, synchronize and collaborate on their PDF documents, annotations, tags and comments using the internet cloud-based Qiqqa Web Libraries.

History

The development of Qiqqa, based in Cambridge, UK, began in December 2009 and was first released as a public alpha in April 2010. The first version offered PDF management and brainstorming capabilities. The several releases since have seen the inclusion of the Web Library, OCR, integration with BibTeX and other reference managers, and the use of natural language processing (NLP) techniques to guide the researcher in their reading.

Qiqqa is increasingly being noticed by universities [4] and their libraries,[5] and has been incorporated into several research skills courses.[6][7]

In 2011 Qiqqa won both the University of Cambridge CUE [8] and CUTEC,[9][10] and the Cambridge Wireless Discovering Start-Ups[11] competitions. Qiqqa was an award winner in the 2012 Santander Universities Entrepreneurship Awards.[12]

A 15-minute interview on AffinityDAB radio summarises the history of Qiqqa.[13]

Features

  • Rich PDF viewer supporting annotating, tagging, notes, searching and cross-referencing.
  • Filtering and reporting against your tags, autoTags and aiTags.
  • A full-text search across your entire PDF library.
  • The tagging of text annotations and the associated annotation report features enables Qualitative research and Grounded theory methodologies against your PDF documents and scans.
  • Automatic extraction of paper metadata and integration with GoogleScholar to automatically build the rest of your citation metadata.
  • Sync your documents, metadata and annotations across multiple computers and to a private online Web Library.
  • Integration with web browsers to support searching of the internet for new PDFs to add to your document library.
  • Optical character recognition (OCR) of PDF documents to support text searching of scanned PDFs.
  • Text and image export text export for PDFs (including scanned PDFs)
  • Automatically generate your citations and bibliographies in Microsoft Word XP, 2003, 2007 and 2010 with support of thousands of Citation Style Language (CSL) styles.
  • BibTeX export to allow researchers using LaTeX to format their lists of references in a consistent manner, e.g. using LyX.
  • Integrates with the built-in Microsoft Word 2007 and 2010 reference management systems.
  • A brainstorming tool allowing you to incorporate your ideas, PDF documents, annotations and information on the internet.
  • Import your PDFs and metadata from other reference managers.

Technology

Qiqqa is a .NET 4 application targeting the Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 platforms. It is available as a standalone Windows setup application or via Microsoft's ClickOnce technology. It runs on Apple OS-X under Parallels.

Qiqqa for Android supports Android 2.2 and up.

See also

References

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