EndNote & Refworks — Personal Bibliographic Management (PBM) tools
What are PBM tools and how can these tools facilitate your research?
What PBM tools are supported at the University of Cincinnati?
How do I select the PBM tool most appropriate for my need?
Links to PBM tools comparison charts
Register for an EndNote or RefWorks workshop
Articles/News about EndNote & RefWorks
What are PBM tools and how can these tools facilitate your research?
A personal bibliographic management tool may be either a software package or an Internet based service that provides you with the capability to electronically collect and manage bibliographic resources from hundreds of databases and to output these resources into formatted bibliographies, footnotes and in-text citations. Most PBM tools include the following features:
- Electronic collection of bibliographic resources from most commercial research literature databases, e.g. Art Abstracts, BIOSIS, ERIC, MLA, PsycINFO, etc.
- Electronic collection of bibliographic resources from most public catalogs, e.g. NLM (PubMed), LC, OhioLINK, UCLID, etc.
- Creation of formatted (all major styles) bibliographies, footnotes and in-text citations
- Convenient linking to full-text resources saved on a PC or on the Internet
- Management and organization of bibliographic resources in one or multiple databases
- Detection and management of duplicate bibliographic resources
- Browsing and searching of your own bibliographic databases
How do I select the PBM tool most appropriate for my needs?
The answer to this question really depends on your personal situation, environment and preferences. Both PBM tools supported by UC (EndNote and RefWorks) are excellent products. Both EndNote and RefWorks would likely satisfy most, if not all, of your requirements. However, you are encouraged to review the next section, "Links to PBM Tools Comparison Charts" to compare features of EndNote, RefWorks and other BPM tools.
Links to PBM tools comparison charts
Some of the following links contain some local institutional information. However, most of the information provided is generic and will help you compare the features and functionality of EndNote, RefWorks, Zotero and other PBM tools/services.
Adept Scientific (2010) EndNote/EndNote Web/Reference Manager/ProCite: Bibliographic software comparison chart. Retrieved December 8, 2010 from http://www.adeptscience.co.uk/products/refman/reference/chart.html.
Research management and citation . Retrieved March 23, 2011 from http://library.law.yale.edu/research/research-management-and-citation .
This site provides a comparison table including the following personal bibliographic management tools: Evernote (open source), Zotero (the Firefox based PBM), EndNote and RefWorks.
Citation managers comparison - UW Madison Libraries. Retrieved September 28, 2010 from http://www.library.wisc.edu/citation-managers/comparison.html . This site compares EndNote (desktop version), EndNote Web, RefWorks and Zotero (the Firefox based PBM).
Compare RefWorks with EndNote & Reference Manager (2008). Retrieved March 4, 2009 from http://guides.hsl.unc.edu/content.php?pid=131994 .
Comparison of bibliographic software at MIT. Retrieved September 15, 2009 from http://libraries.mit.edu/help/bibliography/comparison.html .
This site includes Zotero (the Firefox based PBM), EndNote and RefWorks.
A Comparison of reference managers. (2010). Retrieved December 7, 2010 from http://gethelp.library.upenn.edu/support/software/refworks/other_reference_managers.html .
This site provides a brief tabular comparison of the following personal bibliographic management systems: RefWorks, EndNote, Zotero, PubGet* and Papers.
Dell'Orso, F. (2009). Personal bibliographic management software: Analysis and comparison of some packages. Retrieved March 5, 2009 from http://www.burioni.it/forum/dellorso/bms-dasp/text/index.html .
Dell'Orso provides an extremely detailed evaluative comparison of the following products: EndNote, EndNote Web, RefWorks, ProCite and Reference Manager. To access the comparison data from Dell'Orso's home page, either select "3. Comparison Grid" from the bottom of the page to access the table of contents of the grid or click on any of the aforementioned PBM tools to access the first page of the grid.
Wikipedia contributors.Comparison of reference management software. Retrieved September 28, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software .
Last Modified: March 23, 2011
Web site content: Randall Roberts