Bibdesk EndNote Mendeley Papers RefWorks Zotero Research Habits I like taking notes directly on my digital documents. Yes Yes Yes I work from multiple places. No No No No Yes Yes on first stores on local Where does it store my personal on personal and syncs with computer and then on personal citation database? computer EndNoteWeb syncs with web computer Web Web I want to work without an internet connection (on an airplane, etc.). Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes I want to store PDFs in my personal Yes (upto Yes (upto citation database. Yes Yes Yes Yes 100MB) 100MB) Field of Study My research includes capturing screens and rapidly changing web content, blogs, streaming video, etc. Yes Compatibility No, only Mac OS X 10.4 onward (support ending for 10.4 in next Does it works with PCs and Macs? Only with Mac Yes Yes (and ) version) Yes Yes Works with MSOffice, Works with MSOffice, Works with Works with NeoOffice, works with open office, Works with MSOffice, MSOffice and LibreOffice and LaTeX editors (X2) and any program MSOffice, OpenOffice, Pages, any program that any program With what word processors can it and LyX, that saves files as OpenOffice and , TextEdit saves files as that saves files format citations and bibliographies? BBEdit RTF NeoOffice and HTML RTF as RTF I collaborate with other authors and want a communal citation database. No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Price These tools are licensed for my use at Yes (for download Free (up to Free (up to my institution. Open source with UNI) Free Yes (in DSC) 100MB) 100MB) Other http://www. http://www. https://library. http://bibdesk. http://cuit.columbia. mendeley. mekentosj. columbia. http://www. Where do I get it? sourceforge.net/ edu/endnote com/features/ com/papers/ edu/pamacea/login.html?target=/content/librarywebsecure/help/howto/endnote/refworks.html&pamservice=krb&userfile=zotero.org/ Configuration: http: //library.columbia. edu/content/libraryweb/indiv/dsc/papers_config.html http: http://www. Support: http: http://www. http://www. Additional Resources - add links to //sourceforge. http://www.columbia. mendeley. //support. columbia. columbia. DSC pages net/apps/mediawiki/bibdesk/index.php?title=Main_Pageedu/cu/lweb/help/howto/endnote/#endnotecom/features/ mekentosj.com/kb edu/cu/lweb/help/howto/endnote/#refworksedu/cu/lweb/help/howto/endnote/#zotero

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