Overview of advantages and disadvantages of the citation managers RefWorks, Mendeley and Zotero Teamwork Advantages Disadvantages New RefWorks Possible to work on team projects • Import from most catalogues and • Integration with Word 2019 or Word 365 and hereby sharing the references. databases rather simple and fast. ProPlus on Mac computers may not work • Possible to import PDF-files. (properly). • Possible to annotate and highlight • Slow when importing simultaneously large the PDF-files. amounts of references (it is expected to • Compatible with Google Docs. improve shortly). • After graduation or termination of • 1 account per e-mail adress. your employment at UvA you can • Not compatible with Libre Office. still use your account. Legacy RefWorks • Possible to share and edit the • Possible to make multiple accounts • Integration with Word 2019 or Word 365 references in a joint account. using a single email address. ProPlus on Mac computers may not work • Possible to collaborate on • Suitable for systematic reviews, due (properly). documents with RW- to reasonable speed and • PDF-files can only be added one by one as references. transparency in deduplication. attachments. • Import from most catalogues and • No annotations or highlighting possible in databases rather simple and fast. PDF-files. • Not compatible with Google Docs. • Not compatible with Libre Office. Teamwork Advantages Disadvantages Mendeley • References can be shared and • Possible to import PDF-files. • Not to use with MacOS Mojave and edited. Full text can be jointly • Possible to annotate and highlight Catalina. annotated in private groups. the PDF-files, within a group as well. • Not compatible with Google Docs. • Collaborate on a document • Fast processing of large numbers of • Deduplication of references is not with references which can be references. transparent. When importing, the shared within the group. • Via UvA access to the Institutional references are automatically Edition: possible to collaborate deduplicated. That is not convenient for with up to 100 people in many systematic reviews. groups, 100 GB private and 100 GB • Direct import with Web Importer doesn’t shared storage space. work sufficiently in CataloguePlus and • Compatible with Libre Office. many databases, it is necessary to save the references as RIS or BibText file. • Alumni who don’t have an account yet, can’t use the Institutional Edition. • After graduation or termination of your employment, you have rights to use the Institutional Edition for one more year. Zotero • References can be shared and • Possible to import PDF files. • Not possible to adjust citation styles. edited within the group. • Fast processing of large number of • There is no possibility for highlighting or Annotations can be shared, references. annotating within the PDF files. but not within the PDF file • Possible to import directly from • Limited storage (max 300 MB), expansion itself. PubMed. possible for $ 20-120 per year. • Collaboration on documents • Easy import of web pages. • Direct import doesn’t work sufficiently or with Zotero references. • Compatible with Google Docs and at all with Google Scholar, Libre Office. Ebsco/Proquest databases, and Science Direct. .