Database Connectivity
This table lists the academic databases and search engines which reference managers can import from. In some cases, a search and retrieval can be conducted directly in the reference manager. In others, a bookmarklet or Firefox extension will allow a site to be scraped.
| Software | ArXiv | CiteSeer | IEEE Xplore | PubMed | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aigaion | No | No | No | No | none |
| Bebop | No | No | No | No | No |
| BibDesk | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | ACM portal, Jstor, DBLP, Google Scholar, Web of Science, any Z39.50 or Entrez, and others |
| Biblioscape | No | No | No | Yes | Import from integrated web browser |
| BibSonomy | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | various |
| Bibus | No | No | No | Yes | none |
| Bookends | Yes | No | No | Yes | Web of Science, Amazon, Google Scholar, Z39.50 |
| Citavi | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | WorldCat/OCLC, Ovid, EBSCO, ProQuest, Web of Science, Z39.50 (4000+ online resources), DOI lookup, ISBN lookup |
| CiteULike | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | various |
| Connotea | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | various |
| Docear | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| EndNote | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | various any Z39.50 |
| JabRef | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ACM portal, Jstor, INSPIRE-HEP |
| Jumper 2.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| KBibTeX | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | BibSonomy, CiteBase, CSB, DBLP, Google Scholar, ScienceDirect, INSPIRE-HEP, Z MATH, Z39.50 |
| Mendeley | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | various |
| Papers | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ACM, ADS, Google Books, Google Scholar, JSTOR, MathSciNet, Project Muse, Scopus, Web of Science |
| Pybliographer | No | No | No | Yes | none |
| Qiqqa | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | GoogleScholar, JSTOR |
| refbase | Yes | No | No | Yes | DOI lookup |
| RefDB | Yes | No | No | Yes | any Z39.50 |
| Reference Manager | No | No | No | Yes | various |
| Referencer | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| RefWorks | No | No | No | Yes | various |
| Scholar's Aid | No | No | No | Yes | Z39.50 |
| SciRef | No | No | No | No | No |
| Sente | No | No | No | Yes | Z39.50, SRU, Web of Knowledge |
| Wikindx | No | No | No | Yes | none |
| WizFolio | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | various |
| Zotero | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | various |
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