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Mendeley: Moving Between and Comparing Citation Managers

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Moving to and from Mendeley

Moving from Mendeley to another reference manager

Moving from another reference manager to Mendeley

  1. Sciwheel (formerly F1000)
    • We have step-by-step instructions on moving from Sciwheel to Mendeley in the moving from Sciwheel section of our Switching Citation Managers guide
  2. Endnote
    • We have step-by-step instructions on moving from Endnote to Mendeley in the moving from Endnote section of our Switching Citation Managers guide
  3. Zotero
    • We have step-by-step instructions on moving from Zotero to Mendeley in the moving from Zotero section of our Switching Citation Managers guide

Comparing reference managers

  EndNote
(Desktop)
Zotero Sciwheel (formerly F1000Workspace)
HSL Online Guides EndNote Zotero Sciwheel (formerly F1000Workspace)
Classes at HSL EndNote Classes   Sciwheel Classes
Cost $108 for students, faculty, & staff through UNC-CH
 
Zotero is free Free through UNC-CH
Notes See EndNote Basic guide for further details on the free online version   Use this link to create account.  Select No, I'm a new user then select password.
How is it used? Computer
+ Web
Computer
+ Web
Web
Major citation styles?
Annotation of PDFs
Locate full-text using UNC-CH subscriptions
Instructions for EndNote

Instructions for Zotero

Instructions for Sciwheel
Adds citation from a PDF
Sharing options X7 and above users have sharing options / email compressed libraries See group options here
 
Share unlimited projects and manuscripts
Free online storage EN21- three year access to EndNote Web with unlimited storage 700+ papers
(more space can be purchased)
Unlimited
Word Processor Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word
Google Docs
LibreOffice (all)

Microsoft Word
Google Docs
Manuscripts for Mac