EndNote costs more than $100 for an educational license, and while in the grand scheme of things that might not be too much, it’s certainly an impediment for grad students or schools with limited resources. Cost: Perhaps the strongest selling point for Zotero is that it’s free.Second, while I’m doing my best to represent the features of both EndNote and Zotero, if I’ve missed something or gotten something just plain wrong, please let me know in the comments! My goal is to just touch on some key differences that I’ve found for preferring one program over another. A couple of caveats: First, I’m not going to cover everything that each tool does. With that, then, I want to cover what I see to be the strengths and key features of each platform. It must of course be said that both tools work very well at their primary purposes: managing references and creating citations and bibliographies within documents. In my postdoc I regularly teach classes on both EndNote and Zotero, which means that I think I’ve got a pretty good perspective on both tools. I began experimenting with Zotero in the fall of 2007 (a year after its first release) and while I very much appreciated what it did, it wasn’t enough to make me a convert.Īpart from my own level of comfort, however, I wanted to know what the differences were between the two tools. So when it came time to write my dissertation, EndNote was already well integrated into my workflow. I fastidiously created bibliographic entries for the reading I did in seminars.
Zotero vs endnote software#
I started playing around with it in my last year of undergraduate work (as a way to procrastinate rather than actually writing papers), and I purchased a copy of the software before starting graduate school (only to find out that my school had a site license).
In many ways, it comes down to the fact that I’m very, very comfortable with EndNote. That’s why I feel a little sheepish about making the following confession: while I admire and proselytize for Zotero, I actually use EndNote for my own research.Ī few weeks ago, ProfHacker got a request asking us if we could compare the two platforms, which gave me a great opportunity to try to figure out why I prefer EndNote. The folks at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (who make Zotero) are friends of ProfHacker, and we got one of our earliest boosts from their Digital Campus podcast.
Zotero vs endnote series#
And of course, there’s Amy’s fantastic two-part series on getting started with Zotero (parts one and two).
Some of our earliest posts covered teaching with Zotero groups and making your WordPress blog Zotero-able (although we can’t control whether it’s “zo terrible” ). We here at ProfHacker are big fans of Zotero.
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