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 feature/function comparison charts
Register for an EndNote or RefWorks workshop
Articles/News about EndNote & RefWorks
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:
The answer to this question really depends on your personal situation, environment and preferences. All three PBM tools supported by U.C. (EndNote, ProCite and RefWorks) are excellent products. However, ProCite has not been upgraded since 1999, and for this reason it would not be a wise choice for a new user. Both EndNote and RefWorks would likely satisfy most, if not all, of your requirements. However, you are encouraged to review the Links to feature comparison charts to compare features of these two excellent BPM tools.
Several 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 and RefWorks. The Dell'Orso site is particularly comprehensive, detailed and complex. It provides comparisons on eight major personal bibliographic management tools, including both EndNote and RefWorks.
EndNote and RefWorks comparison. (2007). Retrieved 3/26/2007, 2007, from http://www.library.uiuc.edu/refworks/endnote_comparison.html
RefWorks/EndNote: A comparison (Cushing/Whitney medical library, yale university). (2007). Retrieved March 19, 2007, from http://www.med.yale.edu/library/reference/training/endnote/compare.html
RefWorks EndNote comparison. Retrieved March 19, 2007, from http://www.princeton.edu/~coach/bibman/comparison.html#features
Dell'Orso, F. (2007). Personal bibliographic management software: Analysis and comparison of some packages. Retrieved November 29, from http://www.burioni.it/forum/dellorso/bms-dasp/text/index.html
Harvard college library. (2006). Retrieved 3/26/2007, 2007, from http://hcl.harvard.edu/research/guides/refworks/refworksorendnote.html
Endnote or refworks? / A comparison chart. (2006). Retrieved March 19, 2007, from http://gethelp.library.upenn.edu/support/refworks/comparison.html
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