Electronic note-taking tools have become more popular for students, professionals, and, well, anyone with ideas, notes, or to-dos. This guide is based on a similar guide by Daria Carson-Dussan, Melissa Vetter, and Cheryl Holland at WUSTL.The days of writing notes in various notebooks, furiously scribbling research on notecards, and jotting down ideas on sticky notes that end up in unexpected places are on their way out. Questions? Contact the library's citation management support. Zotero is open source and cannot be acquired by a company. You can also enable the retrieval of PDF metadata, which allows you to create citation records just from dragging a PDF into Zotero. Zotero's single-click capture works with more databases, catalogs, and websites than Mendeley's browser extension. If your research content is diverse, Zotero is the easiest method to gather citation records for non-PDF content. If your research content is primarily contained in PDF files, Mendeley has an integrated PDF viewer and can create citation records by using the browser extension. Mendeley has the strongest website and community platform. For Northwestern students, faculty, and staff, EndNote 20 can be downloaded through NUIT with a valid NetID. Zotero and Mendeley are relatively young tools when compared to EndNote. EndNote X9 offers some advanced features that might be necessary for your discipline and work flow, including hundreds of built-in citation styles.
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