برمجيات إدارة الاستشهادات المرجعية المجانية : دراسة تقييمية مقارنة

Abstract EN

Citations management software has several terms, including: personal bibliographic programs, bibliographic citations management programs, bibliographic management programs, reference management programs, managers of citations, and bibliographic software.

Citation Management Software is a program produced for storage and retrieval of bibliographic records.

This study aims to identify this software and compare the free software to manage citations in terms of the basic data and the features to each of them to get out the findings and recommendations which will help users to take the decision to choose the right software which achieve their scientific research.

The study followed three approaches: the historical method to track the evolution of terminology, history and especially the relevant benchmark, such as quotations, documentation, and citations, the descriptive approach (Content Studying) to describe, analyze and expertise the characteristic features of each program, then analyze the basic data of each system and their features, and the third comparative approach to compare the citations styles in accordance cognitive sectors and comparing management citations software.

The Most important results are: JabRef is the best software in database connectivity With more than nineteen databases: ArXiv ،IEEE Xplore ، CiteSeer ،PubMed ،Google scholar ،Google Books ،Amazon ،Web of Science/Web of Knowledge ،WorldCat/OCLC ،Science Direct ،JSTOR ، Highwire ،PMC Europe ،ACMDigitalLibrary ،Scopus ،Wiley ،NIHLibrary ، voyager ،PrimoLibweb.

The Most important recommendations is we must encourage researchers to use these software which compatible with their research interests to save time and efforts in prepare reference list.