enw xml format is not documented and apparently changes frequently. Their RIS output violates the specifications (which are published by T&R!) in multiple ways. In 25+ years of existence they haven't been able to develop and maintain a well defined, stable, and documented output format. Some of the trade-offs between Endnote and Zotero are certainly a matter of taste.īut the big downside to Endnote is that you can't get your data out properly. As you know, Zotero allows rich-text formatting for bibliographies, you just don't like how it's implemented (and devs have said that they'll eventually try to handle that better). Will almost certainly happen in Zotero 3.5Ĥ. I s a matter of taste - I hate the Endnote interface.Įndnote citation styles are also rather limited in what they can do - starting with (but not limited to) the fact that you need some macro-based hack to switch between footnotes and in-text citationsģ. Other users of Zotero will have other features that they especially like, and I look forward to reading about these.ġ. I especially like the “Add Item by Identifier” feature, although retrieving metadata from pdfs is also exciting.ģ) The ability to create multiple notes for a record is a strength of Zotero, as is the ability to link different records. Thomson Reuters, which owns both, presumably because ProCite didn’t sell as well as EndNote.Ģ) Zotero seems to do a much better job of importing bibliographic information from the Web, and has several different options for doing this. This is actually reminiscent of a feature of ProCite, which was a better program than EndNote but is no longer maintained by
In addition, finding all references showing a particular keyword requires a search in EndNote, but can be done much more easily using the Tags Window in Zotero. Making these kinds of changes of tags in Zotero is much more straightforward and reliable. If you do a search for ECOSYSTEM in the keyword field and change all occurrences to COMMUNITY, then records with ECOSYSTEM-ENGINEER in their keyword field will now show COMMUNITY-ENGINEER (This is not an ideal example, because ECOSYSTEM and COMMUNITY don’t mean the same thing, but I think it makes the point). For example, suppose you want to change the keyword ECOSYSTEM to COMMUNITY but also have the keyword ECOSYSTEM-ENGINEER in other records in your database. This typically requires several steps, and must be done very carefully. This means that if a user wants to modify a keyword in all records in which it occurs, delete a keyword from all records, or add a keyword to a subset of records, he or she needs to use the global editing tools for the keyword field.
In EndNote, all the keywords for a particular record are contained in a keyword field. Here are the main advantages of Zotero (for me):ġ) Editing of tags (keywords in EndNote) is MUCH easier in Zotero than in EndNote. This facilitates such things as italicizing scientific names in titles of articles. There is also some capability of editing reference types, for example, changing the names of fields and the particular fields that are displayed.ģ) EndNote includes the capability of global editing.Ĥ) EndNote includes rich-text formatting in database records as well as bibliographies.
PAPERS VS ENDNOTE VS ZOTERO SOFTWARE
Of course one fundamental advantage of Zotero as open source software is that the developers are more responsive to suggestions from users for improvement.ġ) EndNote has a cleaner user interface (others may disagree).Ģ) EndNote includes the option of relatively straightforward modification by users of import filters and output styles. Some of these are strengths of EndNote, others are strengths of Zotero. Many of the basic features of EndNote and Zotero are similar, but here are some key differences. These ideas are based on at least 20 years of experience with four bibliographic databases, most recently EndNote and Zotero.
Most of the discussions comparing Zotero and EndNote are rather old, so I’m starting this new one to offer some ideas that I haven’t seen in previous discussions.
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