1. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
MEDICAL LIBRARY
Managing your bibliography
Isla Kuhn
Reader Services Librarian, Medical Library

2. Referencing: boring(?) but important
• Keep track
• Keep your sources safe
• Keep sane …

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software

4. •
citeulike
•
Endnote
•
Mendeley
•
ProCite
•
Zotero
•
RefMan
•
Qiqqa
•
Papers
•
2collab
•
pdf Stack
•
Biblioscape
•
Ref Works
•
Bookends
•
Sente
•
Citavi
•
Lab Meeting
•
Jab Ref
•
Bookends
•
Refbase
•
WizFolio
•
EndnoteWeb

5. Which tools?
More? Others?

6. Similarities
Endnote
Create folders/files
Attach PDFs/files
Link to full-text
Cost
Desktop element
Work offline?
Web element
Sharing
“Dynamic” organisation
Cite-while-you-write
iPad app
EndnoteWeb
Zotero Mendeley

7. Which tools?
• Endnote
• EndnoteWeb – www.myendnoteweb.com
• Zotero – www.zotero.org
• Mendeley – www.mendeley.com

8. Similarities
Endnote
EndnoteWeb Zotero
Mendeley
Create folders/files
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
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Attach PDFs/files






Link to full-text
Cost




Desktop element

-ish


Work offline?




(standalone)
Web element
-ish



Sharing
-ish



“Dynamic” organisation




Cite-while-you-write
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


 (free)
 (free)
iPad app?
(£6.99)

9. • PDF-Xchange Viewer
www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer
highlight, annotate and work interactively with PDFs
• Delicious
www.delicious.com
social bookmarking service that lets you save, tag and bundle useful
websites
• Qiqqa
www.qiqqa.com
storage and full-text searching of PDFs - interfaces with Mendeley
• Dropbox www.dropbox.com
cloud file sharing/storage

10. Help!
Isla Kuhn
Reader Services Librarian
Medical Library
email: ilk21@cam.ac.uk
phone: (01223) 336750
web: library.medschl.cam.ac.uk
Thank you.