EndNote for Windows

User Reviews

• Messy and incompetent

  dusakovAugust 12, 2012

  Pros

  Wide availability through institutional subscription

  Cons

  References lost when transferring between computers, references lost when updating text versions, unwanted searches and references stored without warning, reference duplication without warning, illogical interface menus, unwanted help functions and automatic saves, service directories and files getting duplicated and spread across the operating system making inter-computer exchange useless, unwanted default format options never matching the text format.

  Summary

  It is pretty obvious that people who have designed more recent 3-4X versions never tried to actually use EndNote for their day job. They must have been issued orders "to develop" it. Perhaps they got some advice from librarians, which made things much worse. There are such obvious failures to understand what sort of reference assistance one wants when writing, updating, transferring, sending, etc. your paper that the list will take several pages. If you never used it before find something else.

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• Excellent Software for academics

  eaak79August 4, 2010

  Pros

  Top Quality, Very Fast and Instant results

  Cons

  Needs training before using.

  Summary

  I was told during my Master Degree in UK to use it for reference purposes. It did its job by saving my valuable time. Instead of writing each and everything reference into the Word Document and them format it according to Harvad style was a nightware "by hand" but by using this software it was just a piece of cake. Highly recommanded for acadamics otherwise no use for "ordinary people".

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• Bad, bad, bad

  vonweberSeptember 22, 2009

  Pros

  Pros? It is ubiquitous in the academic world, but that's just because people don't find the time to seek and learn a new reference management software. Ubiquitousness is EndNote's only pro.

  Cons

  See summary below

  Summary

  This is an utterly mediocre and problematic piece of software. It's as if EndNote lives in the past as far as software usability and reliability go. This is how unstable, primitive and timewasting computer programs were about 10 years or so ago! I don't even want to think how many hours of my time this program has wasted while I was trying to fill in for what *it* should have done! Myself and several of my colleagues have long migrated to other reference management software, which are open-source AND much, much better than EndNote in every sense possible. To give just a few examples: JabRef, BibDesk, Zotero. It is just the corporate might of Thomson Scientific that's sustaining EndNote - this, and nothing more. In the era of excelent free software, this bloated, incompetent piece of rubbish called EndNote will not survive much longer.

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