Literature mangement

Overview

Literature management program can make your work with literature in studies and research significantly easier. They simplify research, management, cross-linking and analysis of literature as well as the usage in own texts.

Especially for extensive academic papers working with a literature management program is recommended. The main functions of literature management software are:

• Simple collection of literature directy from library catalogues, bibliografic databases, search engines.
• Searching, saving and managing of fulltexts, espacially in pdf format.
• Description, oraganization and content-related indexing of literature (Categorization, tagging, rating etc.).
• Evaluation of literature, often with integrated functions for editing pdf-files (mark, annotate, exerp mithilfe integrierter Funktionen zur PDF-Bearbeitung (Markieren, Annotieren, exzerpt, write out citations etc.).
• Link literature and own material (citations, exzerpts, commentaries etc.) with the own text (Quote in the desired citation style, create literature lists).

 

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Recommendable overviews and comparisions

• Comparison of Reference Management Systems (SLUB Dresden); State: 10/2021 .
• Reference Management Software Comparison (TU München); State: 07/2022.
• Comparison of reference management software (Wikipedia) (en)

 

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