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Migrating from RefWorks to Mendeley: Compare Mendeley

Moving your references form RefWorks to Mendeley

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Basic software package (includes all features listed below) Free $250 $100 Free $79
Free web storage space (online backup of your papers) 2GB 1GB NA 300MB NA
Reference/Document Management
Organization of PDFs and other documents Tick Tick Cross Tick Tick
Citation Plug-ins for Word Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick
Citation Plug-ins for LibreOffice Tick Tick Cross Tick Tick
Annotations/Highlighting in PDFs Tick Tick Cross Cross Tick
Cross-platform synching across desktop, web and mobile devices Tick Cross Cross Tick Cross
Knowledge Discovery
Free and open database approaching 100 million documents Tick Cross Cross Cross Cross
Personalized paper recommendations Tick Cross Cross Cross Cross
Readership statistics & community tags Tick Cross Cross Cross Cross
Open Web API Tick Cross Cross Tick Cross
Full text search across all your papers Tick Tick Cross Tick Tick
Search across external databases Almost there! Tick Tick Cross Tick
Collaboration
Private groups Tick Tick Tick Tick Cross
Public groups Tick Cross Cross Tick Cross
Social network Tick Cross Cross Tick Tick
Collaboration newsfeed Tick Cross Cross Tick Cross
General Technology
Web app Tick Tick Tick Tick Cross
Desktop app Tick Tick Cross Tick Tick
Compatibility with all modern web browsers Tick Cross Tick Cross Tick
Compatibility with Mac/Win/Linux Tick Cross Cross Tick Cross
iOS Free Free Cross Cross Paid
Android Free Cross Cross Cross Cross
Product feedback forum Tick Tick Cross Tick Tick
Library systems integration/EZProxy Support Almost there! Tick Tick Tick Tick
Metadata Extraction Technology
Extraction of DOIs (Digital Object Identifiers) from PDFs Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick
Extraction of PubmedIDs and ArxivIDs from PDFs Tick Cross Cross Tick Tick
Extraction of embedded metadata from PDFs Tick Tick Cross Tick Tick
Extraction of citation details from PDFs without embedded metadata Tick Cross Cross Tick Cross