I don’t know what everyone else’s experience is: but I’m starting to feel my supervisor perceives and treats me as her very cheap research assistant rather than a PhD student. In the first few months of a PhD, I thought it was important to read, increase subject and theoretical knowledge, develop research ideas, develop a conceptual framework, establish gaps in the literature. Though my supervisor is pushing me to get data, without hardly doing a literature review, is this common in Psychology PhDs?

I’m just starting my PhD, and I hope to use something similar. It costs money to use Endnote on one’s home laptop. I’ve come across a free reference management application add-on to Mozilla Foxfire, called Zotero. Does anyone know about and use this? Does anyone have (from experience or reviews) which, out of the various reference management programmes, are the most versatile and reliable?