
It is owned by Elsevier, a large, global publisher and information management corporation that also owns the Scopus database, the Science Direct electronic journal platform, and many scholarly journals and book imprints. Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network.Zotero is totally independent of your academic affiliation. You can, however, use Zotero without contributing money, code, ideas, or feedback. Zotero depends on users to provide feedback, ideas, code, and documentation to support the tool. It is open-source, meaning that if you have an idea and skills to improve the tool, you can download the code, build something, and contribute to the Zotero project.
Endnote software software#
It is a project of the Corporation for Digital Scholarship, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the development of software and services for researchers and cultural heritage institutions. See the Zotero page on this research guide for possible charges for expanded storage. If you work at a Fordham owned computer, or download Microsoft Office from Fordham IT, EndNote will be embedded. If you leave Fordham University, you will need to either upload all of your content to the free web version of EndNote, transfer your EndNote Desktop access to a license purchased by another institution, or purchase EndNote Desktop access on your own. Fordham IT also embeds the EndNote software into Fordham Microsoft Office applications.
Endnote software license#
Fordham IT purchases a license to distribute EndNote Desktop to members of the Fordham community who have a valid access IT username and password. EndNote is part of Clarivate's Web of Science Group of products. They are designed to work together, and are produced and maintained by Clarivate, a large, global publisher and information management corporation. Storage is not unlimited for any of the tools, as your library expands you may need to eventually pay for storage either in the cloud or on your device. Depending on how you feel about personal information, corporations, and networking, you may choose one tool over another.

One of the primary differences between EndNote, Zotero, and Mendeley is the organization and people who create, maintain, and distribute the tool.

Who creates, maintains, and distributes the tool? What is the cost?
