Citation & Bibliographic Management Tools
Why Use Mendeley?
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You want to gather and organize a variety of references from the Web and online databases.
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Mendeley is an academic social network as well as a citation management platform.
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Mendeley has a very good integrated PDF viewer and can create citation records just from importing a PDF file. Mendeley.org has a very strong website and community platform.
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Mendeley is owned by the for-profit publishing company Elsevier and can be integrated with your Elsevier or Web of Science profile if you have one.
- Good for larger and long term projects and for networking with other researchers.
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*Pricing structure: Free up to 2 GB (about 700-800 articles) with additional storage available for purchase.
See Mendeley Guides for more information, search tips, & tutorials.
Note: This guide is under construction. More content will be added soon. For immediate help with Mendeley, contact a librarian.
Why Use Zotero?
- It gathers citation records for non-PDF and PDF content. Zotero's single-click capture works with many databases and websites.
- You can also enable the retrieval of PDF metadata, which allows you to create citation records just from dragging a PDF into Zotero.
- Zotero is open source and cannot be acquired by a company.
- Good for smaller or shorter term projects or papers.
- *Pricing structure: Free up to 300 MB (about 100 articles) with additional storage available for purchase.
- See Zotero Support for more information, search tips, & tutorials.
Note: This guide is under construction. More content will be added soon. For immediate help with Zotero, contact a librarian.