There are a lot of comparisons of commercial and non-commercial reference management software available on the web. We recommend the following tables created by librarians:
To decide which one of the many reference management systems to use, first aks yourself the following questions:
- Which system do my colleagues use?
- Is the system compatible with my operating system/word processor?
- Which databases are available for import?
The developer of the reference manager Docear have called our attention to a fourth question:
Which system won’t lock me in?
Find out more about this question at the Docear blog:
http://www.docear.org/2013/10/14/what-makes-a-really-really-bad-reference-manager/