1. 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?
Need to share reference database with others?
RefWorks or Reference Manager
Like plenty of on-screen help?
Prefer a cleaner, bare-screen presentation?
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?
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
May 2009