Once a record has been stored, it can be used time and again in generating bibliographies, such as lists of references in scholarly books and articles.
Such bibliographic databases are large and have to be housed on major server installations.
[citation needed] In 2013, a comparison of usage of EndNote, RefWorks, and Zotero among the legal scholars at the Oxford University Law Faculty was performed by survey.
The difficulty of using RefWorks, Endnote, and Zotero by Oxford legal scholars was estimated by the author as well.
A comparison of these tools for legal scholars was made across several usage scenarios, including: installing and setting up OSCOLA citation style; building a personal legal bibliographic library and using extracting metadata from legal bibliographic databases; generating footnotes and bibliographies for academic publications; using and modifying OSCOLA citation style.