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Managing your References: RefWorks or EndNote?. Want to use direct export a lot? Check which product your usual database supports Normally working offline on your own machine? EndNote Want to work online on any machine? RefWorks or EndNote Web/EndNote
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Managing your References:RefWorks or EndNote? • Want to use direct export a lot? • Check which product your usual database supports • Normally working offline on your own machine? • EndNote • Want to work online on any machine? • RefWorks or EndNote Web/EndNote • Don’t want to pay for software? (while at Oxford) • RefWorks • Already familiar with Reference Manager or ProCite? • EndNote • Need to share reference database with others? • RefWorks or Reference Manager • Like plenty of on-screen help? • RefWorks • Prefer a cleaner, bare-screen presentation? • EndNote • Need to work in a particular reference style? • Check it’s supported in your preferred product • Already have a database of references in another product? • Easy to export/import between all main products • But NOT untagged references in Word! • Need to work in foreign languages? • Check support in your preferred product. RefWorks and EndNote both support Unicode fonts. • Need to work with complex mathematical expressions? • Prefer BibTex • Need to save searches to re-run within product? • EndNote • Want to create your own import filters? • EndNote [RefWorks can create for you on request] • Want to edit or create output styles? • Both EndNote and RefWorks allow this • Want to organise your references in separate folders? • RefWorks; latest versions of EndNote • Want to capture references from web pages? (eg Amazon, JSTOR) • RefWorks (RefGrabit) or Zotero • Want to store links to full text? • RefWorks, EndNote both allow this • Want to store pdf’s, other files? • EndNote, RefWorks [total storage limited] • Need citation data? • RefWorks Scopus Edition links to Scopus data; EndNote (latest) links to WoS data • February 2010