Tool |
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Cost |
$42 |
$34.95 for undergrads |
free |
Web-based (works on all operating systems) |
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- |
Social networking and reference download functions only, no preparation of bibliographies on Web |
Mac |
x |
x |
x |
Windows |
- |
- |
x |
Create Bibliography? |
no |
yes |
yes |
# of citation styles |
n/a |
hundred built-in |
over 1100 |
Create inline citations in word processor |
no |
yes |
yes |
Citation import method |
Search through native interface import 1 at a time; manual download of article auto-linked to citation. | Targeted browsing through native interface import 1 at a time; manual download of article auto-linked to citation. | Import individual citations from numerous article databases. Import batches of references from EndNote, CiteULike, or Zotero. |
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How do you access new article PDFs? |
Both a link to locally saved article (if user has done this) or a link to discover full-text. | Both a link to locally saved article (if user has done this) or a link to discover full-text. | No direct method through Mendeley. Use UC-eLinks |
Add personal notes? |
make persistent notations in documents. | Notes field | You can add annotation, tag PDFs and edit multiple documents at once |
How does it deal with PDFs already saved on my computer? |
Papers can attempt to retrieve citation information from several sources including PubMed or Web of Science or Google Scholar, or you can link the document to a manually found or entered citation. | Sente will attempt to retrieve citation information from DOI, PubMed, Google Scholar. | Drag and drop your PDFs into Mendeley and it will attempt to identify the citations. |
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Location of Database |
on local computer | on local computer | Both local computer and web-based. |
Export Format |
BibTeX, RIS, EndNote, Bookends | BibTeX, EndNote X, Refer, and Sente XML. | EndNote XML, RIS and BibTeX |
Tool |
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Social networking tools |
no |
no |
Create public "reading lists" Collaborative tagging of documents Share collections of papers with a user-defined private group of colleagues. |
Works with Berkeley subscribed databases? |
PubMed, Web of Knowledge, plus Google Scholar | PubMed, Web of Knowledge, Jstor, Highwire press, Worldcat, Library of Congress Catalog, plus Google Scholar | some, but only imports references one-at-a-time PubMed, Web of Knowledge, JSTOR, Google Scholar, WorldCat, various publisher websites |
Works with new media? (web pages, podcasts, blog postings, etc. |
no |
no |
no |
Keeping current feature |
n/a |
You can set auto-updates on previous searches (updating daily, weekly, monthly, etc) | n/a |
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08/21/12
