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