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RefWorks/EndNote Comparison Chart
	RefWorks	EndNote
Cost	Free to Notre Dame students, staff and faculty	Requires individual purchase by user; educational discount available through the OIT Computer Store .
Operating System	Operating System Independent (Web-based).	Macintosh, Windows, and Networked Systems.
Program	Same for all operating systems.	PC and Mac require different software programs.
Accessibility	Available on any computer that has an Internet connection	Must purchase a copy or use in ND clusters
Ease of Use	It is simpler than EndNote and easier to learn.	Slightly more difficult to use than RefWorks because of its many advanced features. One also needs to learn where and how to update some utility files for filters, styles, and connections.
ND OIT Training Classes and Materials	Yes. Click to sign up for classes Documentation	Yes. Click to sign up for classes Documentation
Sharing of Data between programs	Yes	Yes
Maximum # of records per library or folder	Unlimited	Unlimited
Maximum record size	The notes, abstract and user definable fields for a reference are limited to 1 gigabyte of information.	50KB (10 pages of text)
Maximum # of fields (e.g. author, title)	Pre-defined: 31 Custom fields: 5	Predefined (customizable): 44 Custom fields: 7
Maximum # of reference types (e.g. journal, book)	Pre-defined: 23 User-defined: None	Pre-defined (customizable): 35 User-defined: 2
Editing/Entering References	Yes	Yes
Search and Replace	No	Yes
Global Editing	Can globally add terms	Can globally add/replace terms
Auto completion of data	Yes, for authors	Yes, for author(s), keyword(s) and journal title(s)
Spell Check	No	Yes
Duplicate detection	Yes	Yes
Authority lists	Yes, authors, keywords, and journal titles automatically generated.	Yes, authors, keywords and journal titles automatically generated.
Support of special characters	Unicode compliant. Use operating system character map for Greek, mathematical, and typographical symbols. Special language characters may be entered if browser and keyboard are set to specific language. Electronically transferred records with special characters are converted to Unicode.	Unicode compliant. Use operating system character map for Greek, mathematical, and typographical symbols. Special characters may be entered if browser and keyboard are set to specific language. Electronically transferred records with special characters are converted to Unicode.
Store PDFs and other files within your personal database	Yes	Yes
Link to PDFs and other materials on the web	Yes	Yes
Use FindText from your personal database	Yes, automatically uses links.	Yes, Open URL compliant. Must configure EndNote to use the links.
Linking to PDFs and other materials stored on your workstation	Yes	Yes, via the 'link to' feature on the References menu
Store and cite images and objects	Yes	Yes
Searching	Yes	Yes
Sort capabilities	Yes, by selected fields. Results of a search are automatically ranked by relevance.	Yes, by any field. No relevancy ranking.
Boolean AND, OR, NOT	Yes	Yes
Field Searching	Yes, by selected fields.	Yes, by any field.
Advanced Search	Yes: includes truncation (except for keywords).	Yes: Includes truncation and date range searching.
Direct Search of Online Catalogs/Databases	Yes: 48+	Yes: 430+
Search Across Multiple Folders/Libraries	Yes	No
Authority list browsing	Author, Keyword, Journal Title	Author, Keyword, Journal Title
Save search strategies	No	Yes
Import Data	Yes	Yes
Filters for importing from online article database	Yes: About 140 available Others available on request	Yes: 390+ Others available on request
Editing or creating filters	No	Yes
Direct Export Feature	Currently around 50 different database vendors offer direct export of records into RefWorks	Yes: Currently around 14 different database vendors offer direct export of records into EndNote.
Work within a word processor to create formatted bibliographies, in-text citations, and footnotes	Yes: Write N Cite plug-in works with Microsoft Word 2000 and up. Use On-line/Cite View for all platforms, browsers, and word processors.	Yes: Cite While You Write plug-in works with Microsoft Word 2000 and up and Mac Word 10.1.2 - 10.1.4. Use EndNote Add-in for WordPerfect. Use RTF Document Scan for most other word processors.
Create Bibliographies	Yes	Yes
Create a formatted bibliography, footnotes, and in-text citations	Yes. RefWorks has 1000+ styles from which to choose.	EndNote has 1,200+ styles from which to choose.
Edit/Create styles	Yes: You can edit an existing style or create a new style.	Yes: You can edit an existing style or create a new style.
Create a bibliography as a file within RefWorks or EndNote	Yes: Choose a style and select a file type. File types supported are Word for Windows 2000 or later Word for Mac 98 or later HTML Rich Text Format (RTF) Plain Text	Yes: Choose a style and select a file type.File types supported are HTML Rich Text Format (RTF) XML Plain Text
Create subject bibliographies (references grouped by subject)	No	Yes: You may generate a bibliography grouped by any field, e.g. subject, author).
Create formatted list of figures, charts, etc.	No	Yes
Collaboration features	RefShare provides url access for non-RefWorks users; Can specify permissions for sharing to folder level.	Facilitates collaboration with its creation of a mini-EndNote Library within a word processor document, as well as being able to pack PDFs within a library rather than just linking to them in a different location.
Web publishing	Can publish or share own database on the web.	No direct web publishing capability.
Palm compatibility	No	References can be downloaded to Palm top devices.
Export reference capabilities	Allows you to export records to other RefWorks users, or in a format compatible with other bibliographic database management programs.	Allows you to export records to other EndNote users, or in a format compatible with other bibliographic database management programs.

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