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Reference managers

Reference managers are tools for managing collected literature that allow:

  • collection and organisation of documents in different formats,
  • the automatic creation of footnotes and an annex bibliography while writing a paper,
  • choice of citation style from those existing in the database,
  • collaboration in groups on the literature collected in the library.

endnote.pngEndNote – a tool for collecting bibliographic descriptions and then using them to create an appendix bibliography and footnotes for a scientific publication in preparation.

The programme enables you to:

  • search databases and catalogues online,
  • import directly from browsed databases,
  • transfer selected bibliographic descriptions to folders created in the programme and create your own bibliographic databases,
  • create automatically footnotes and appendix bibliographies, after downloading the Cite While You Write extension, which works with the Microsoft Word word processor,
  • select the appropriate format for the bibliographic description,
  • share your bibliographic data with others,
  • import data stored on the computer's hard disk from text files (with txt extension),
  • enter descriptions manually.

EndNote on the Web of Science platform can be accessed from the home page of the Main Library.

Once in the database, select the EndNote tab and log in. If you do not have an account, you will need to register at Sign In or My Tools. You can also use the direct link to the registration page.

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mendeley_logo_vertical.pngMendeley – a free, freely accessible literature management tool, but also a social network designed for researchers, students and librarians.

The programme enables to:

  • create multiple subject folders, subfolders, groups and collection of literature in them,
  • store and synchronise documents from different computers using a private account,
  • generate automatically a document database from a designated directory on disk and manual addition of records,
  • thanks to automatic metadata detection, retrie and collect from databases and the Internet records to be cited in an article and of files in many formats (including PDFs),
  • search for headings in documents,
  • insert automatically an appendix bibliography so that no mistakes are made when creating it,
  • work with word processors and insert automatically footnotes in the text,
  • use various bibliographic styles (including Polish),
  • create bibliographic descriptions manually when they are not available in databases and cannot be imported into the programme,
  • share collected descriptions with other researchers and working in groups.

From 1 September 2022, the Mendeley Bibliography Manager is available in a completely new version as Mendeley Reference Manager.

In parallel with the new version of this tool, Mendeley Desktop will continue to be available to existing users and – moreover – it is possible to synchronise the desktop version with this latest option, i.e. Mendeley Reference Manager. In contrast, all new users will no longer be able to download or install the existing Mendeley Desktop software.

In the longer term, it is envisaged that the Mendeley Desktop option will be replaced by Mendeley Reference Manager. Work to improve the new version of the bibliography manager is ongoing and Mendeley users will be kept informed of all progress and changes.

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zotero.pngZotero – a free programme installed as a text editor plug-in or in the Mozilla Firefox browser. When navigating the web, the programme downloads the bibliographic data itself and then sorts it according to the following scheme: title, author data, ISBN number, publisher information, number of pages, edition number, etc. The user can then supplement and correct the data himself. The downloaded data can then be supplemented and corrected by the user.

The programme allows to:

  • download the bibliographic data, thanks to appropriate plug-ins, and plug-ins for the word processor allow the bibliography and the article to be controlled from the position of a single window,
  • export the data to doc. or odt. formats suitable for the most popular word processors; the user can also make certain corrections,
    create a full page image with a link and label and set a category for it, save the date of addition,
  • download page descriptions, author data, language, etc,
  • enter comments on saved pages,
  • add additional files to pages,
  • create links between individual pages.

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