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Abstracting services Reference managers Digital library
Full-text search Yes; covers all reprints of a collection, including not-abstracted papers like technical reports Yes; covers the first 100kB of open access papers and a non-disclosed list of publishers; all recent articles by Oxford University Press and all Elsevier publications are, e.g., excluded. No No No No No No Yes
Search with synonyms No No Yes, partly No No No No No No
Approximate search patterns Yes No No No No No No No Yes
Near matches Yes No No
No No No No No Yes
Index browsing No No Yes Yes Yes, partly Yes, partly No No Yes
Creation and management of personal collections Yes No Only for reference export No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Shared collections Yes No Only for reference export No Yes, references only Read-only access Yes Yes Yes
Personal annotations Yes No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Automated matching of reprints and bibliography Yes (PDF to bibliography) Yes (bibliography to PDF) Yes (bibliography to PDF) No No No No No No
Supported reference formats MedLine, RIS, BibTex none MedLine, RIS, and others ISI MedLine, RIS, BibTex, and many others MedLine, RIS, BibTex, and many others RIS, BibTeX, EndNote, and others BibTeX, EndNote BibTeX, XML, OAI and others
Ease of integration with external tools for text-mining etc. (input/output)* Yes/Yes No/No No/Yes No/No No/Yes selected (e.g., Microsoft Office) No/Yes No/Yes No/Yes
Availability Free use,
Code free for non-profit or academic use
Free use Free use Commercial Commercial Commercial Open-source Open-source Open-source
Installation easy none none none none very easy moderately complex moderately complex highly complex

* Input means that results of external tools can easily be input into the system for subsequent integrated analysis and searches. Output means that data in the system can be output to external tools.

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