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These tools allow you to organize a personal database of resources that you can use to create citations and bibliographies.
Reasons to choose Mendeley:
Your research content is primarily scholarly and contained in PDF files: Mendeley has an integrated PDF viewer and can create citation records just from importing a PDF file. Mendeley has a strong social network and community platform.
Reasons to choose Zotero:
Your research content is diverse. Zotero can gather citation records for non-PDF content easily. Zotero's single-click capture works with more databases, catalogs, and websites than Mendeley's Web Importer. One drawback is that the web-add on decreases visibility within the browser.
Reasons to choose EndNote:
Your research content is vast, complex and confidential. Endnote has unlimited desktop storage and provides up to 5GB of online storage. If you have privacy concerns, your records are secure because they are stored on your desktop not in the cloud.
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Features |
EndNote |
EndNote Basic |
Mendeley |
Zotero |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Cost |
$$$ Student discount |
Free up to 2GB |
Free up to 2GB |
Free up to 300MB |
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Share resources w/ others |
YES |
YES |
YES |
YES |
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Social network |
NO |
NO |
YES |
YES |
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Compatible w/current browsers |
Not web-based |
YES |
YES |
Firefox – full features |
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Direct export from databases |
YES |
SOME |
YES |
YES |
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Creates formatted bibliographies, in-text citations, & footnotes |
YES |
YES |
YES |
YES |
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Store PDFs |
YES |
NO |
YES |
YES |
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Annotate PDFs |
YES |
NO |
YES |
NO |
|
Extract data from PDFs |
SOME |
NO |
YES |
YES |
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Citation styles |
5000+ |
21 |
6000+ |
16 installed |
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Access |
Desktop |
Web |
Web & Desktop |
Firefox extension |
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Mobile Technology |
iPad |
NO |
YES |
YES |
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Accessibility |
ADA compliant |
No information |
Not accessible |
Not enough information |
There are numerous comparisons of citation management tools from other universities. Please note that some universities offer software discounts unavailable at UMass Boston.