RefWorks/EndNote Comparison Chart
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RefWorks/EndNote Comparison Chart
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RefWorks |
EndNote |
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| 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. | Need 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 |
No |
| 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: 36 |
Predefined (customizable): 44 |
| Maximum # of reference types (e.g. journal, book) | Pre-defined: 31 |
Pre-defined (customizable): 35 |
| Editing/Entering References | Yes | Yes |
| Search and Replace | Yes | Yes |
| Global Editing | Can globally add, delete, replace, and move field content | Can globally add/replace terms |
| Auto completion of data | Yes, for authors, journal title(s) | 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, objects, and any other type of attachment | Yes | Yes |
| Searching | Yes | Yes |
| Sort capabilities | Yes, by selected fields. Results of a search are automatically ranked by relevance. | Yes, by any field. |
| Boolean AND, OR, NOT | Yes | Yes |
| Field Searching | Yes, by any field | 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 | Yes |
| Search Across Multiple Folders/Libraries | Yes | No |
| Authority list browsing | Author, Keyword, Journal Title | Author, Keyword, Journal Title |
| Save search strategies | Yes | Yes |
| Import Data | Yes | Yes |
| Filters for importing from online article database | Yes |
Yes |
| Editing or creating filters | Yes, send request to erhelp@listserv.nd.edu | Yes |
| Direct Export Feature | Yes | Yes |
| 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; Mac 2004, 2008 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 1200+ 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) | Uses folders for subject bibliographies | 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 other RefWorks and/or non-RefWorks users; Web page is dynamic and has user-specified functionality. Can specify permissions for sharing to whole database or folder level. Can create group accounts for full editing/sharing functionality. |
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 or specific folders/references on the web. | No direct web publishing capability. |
| Palm/Mobile device compatibility | Yes | Yes |
| 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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