peterslo@uva.UUCP (Peter Sloot) (11/30/88)
********************************************************* BIBLIOGRAPHIC (CROSS) REFERENCE SYSTEMS FOR THE MACINTOSH ********************************************************* Dear reader, for some time now, we are looking for a cross reference system for the Macintosh, preferably based on Hypercard. The program should contain a standarized literature database, and in addition should allow automatically scanning of the database with a user defined profile (containing key words, journal titles, author names etc.). Furthermore, merging of references into a text processor (e.g. MS-Word) in a specific (Journal dependend) format, and rearranging a set of references should be supported. To the best of our knowledge, the following programs support more or less parts of the stated options: Personal Bibliographic System (PBS) Scolars Aid (SA) X-Ref (Based on Hypercard) Current Contents on Diskette (CCD) (Based on Hypercard) Especially the latter (CCD) is favourite since it was recently chosen as a standard by Current Contents (see e.g. CC Life Sciences, volume 39 page 3-8, September 1988). Our question is: Are you familliar with, or currently using, such a program or do you have better alternatives than the mentioned programs? Perhaps you can think of some suggestions that might be of any help. We shall post an overview of the reactions, suggestions to the net. We hope that in the future, this will lead to some kind of standarization among Macintosh users, resulting in easy exchange of literature reference databases. Kind regards, Peter M.A. Sloot University of Amsterdam The Netherlands peterslo@uva.uucp
preese@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (Phil Reese) (12/10/88)
In article <575@uva.UUCP> peterslo@uva.UUCP (Peter Sloot) writes: >********************************************************* >BIBLIOGRAPHIC (CROSS) REFERENCE SYSTEMS FOR THE MACINTOSH >********************************************************* > You really owe it to yourself to check out EndNote by Niles & Associates, 2200 Powell, Suite 765, Emeryville, CA 94608, 415-655-6666. In my opinion this is the best program for managing bibiographic info. They are very open to suggestions for improvment. It is also a very flexible program so it can easily be adapted to any needs. The best part is that it is CHEAP. I believe list price is $129, but I bought my copy from mailorder for $80. Phil Reese SESAME Group School of Ed, UC Berkeley preese@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu {decvax,dual,hplabs,sdcsvax,ulysses}!ucbvax!dewey.soe!preese
meldal@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU (Sigurd Meldal) (12/10/88)
>In article <575@uva.UUCP> peterslo@uva.UUCP (Peter Sloot) writes: >>********************************************************* >>BIBLIOGRAPHIC (CROSS) REFERENCE SYSTEMS FOR THE MACINTOSH >>********************************************************* >> There is a shareware program named "Scholar's Aid" which does a reasonable job of handling crossreferencing and bibliographic information. It presupposes that some form of "mail-merge" operation is possible in your word processor (e.g. MS Word and FullWrite both have that), and it works well with a number of commonly occuring file systems as bibliographic databases. Version 9.71 is available through the info-mac archives, and version 9.99 (dare I say 10?) is in beta testing (and very good it looks, too). -- Sigurd
woodl@byuvax.bitnet (12/12/88)
After having used the Apple II+ version of BookEnds by Sensible Software, Inc., 335 E. Big Beaver, Suite 207, Troy, Michigan 48083, (313) 528-1950 and being very happy with it, I just received their version for the Mac. It consists of several HyperCard stacks, and has a lot of nice features, one of which is the ability to send reference information to printer or text files in any one of a number of user-defined formats. You can also import tabbed text fields and other formats from other programs Medline and Dialog. Perhaps the biggest limitation I've noted thus far is that it dumps refs as a text file only without ability to preserve formatting such as bold, italics, etc. Otherwise, you can order on two fields. So far, it looks even better than the old version, with which I've been very pleased Larry Wood, Brigham Young University, WoodL@BYUVAX.bitnet