BibGlimpse | Google Scholar | Pubmed | ISI Web of Science | RefWorks | EndNote | RefBase | WikIndx | Greenstone | |
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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