EndNote

RefWorks

Purchase and load on your computer. Student price is ~$89.00.

Mac or Windows based

FREE! Web-based and can be used from any computer anywhere, as long as you are affiliated with Yale. Available by subscription ($100/year as of Fall 2006) after you leave Yale. Citations are transferable between institutions with RefWorks.

[The best way to move your RefWorks folders is to make a downloaded backup, transport to new university or private account, and then restore]

Robust product with sophisticated and flexible features.

Been around since Spring 2002. Robust features of a bibliographic management software application and continues to evolve.

Unicode compliant

Unicode compliant

Fair to moderate learning curve. Superior manual and very good technical support.

Easy product to learn. Good online help and very good technical support

Good for theses, dissertations and other complex research projects. Very good for adding value, coding or otherwise personalizing records. Very good for those planning on publishing throughout career.

Good for theses, dissertations and other complex research projects. Very good for adding value, coding or otherwise personalizing records. Very good for those planning on publishing throughout career.

Can create group user ID/password accounts to share citations. Can share citations by way of creating a link from within RefWorks.

Can import/export into/from RefWorks. Good if you decide to switch or to use both.

Can import/export into/from EndNote. Good if you decide to switch

Can directly export from many of our databases (Web of Knowledge, Ovid)

Can connect directly to many databases from within EndNote and retrieved results are automatically added to databases

Can save results from many databases as text files and import into EndNote

Use RefWorks to save citations from additional databases

Supports more Yale databases than EndNote plus GoogleScholar.

Can connect to PubMed from with RefWorks. Also connect to Yale University Library catalog and many other university catalogs.

Over 1100 bibliographic styles to choose from when formatting papers or bibliographies

Over 400 bibliographic styles to choose from when formatting papers or bibliographies