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Showing posts with label Citation Managers. Show all posts

Friday, January 27, 2012

Which citation manager works best with an iPad?

I'm on the HSL reference desk this afternoon, and received this interesting question. Which is the best? I left it in the hands of the client but thought I would share what I discovered and invite others to weigh in:

Mendeley:

  • Has an app for iPad (and iPhone, iPod touch)

  • The app is pretty awesome, syncs automatically with the web version of Mendeley

  • Whatever PDFs you have synced will be stored in your app BUT you can't save new PDFs to the app, it must be saved to the desktop version of Mendeley

  • Can access SFX links through the "web version" of the record


Refworks:

  • Has a mobile version of the site, which is nice for smart phones BUT for iPad you are better off using the full version, this renders nicely on the iPad

  • Don't get sfx links with mobile version (at least I couldn't see them)

  • I said that this citation manager was best supported by staff and by vendor


Endnote:

  • Has a mobile version of site