Hill_IC@cc.curtin.edu.au (01/23/91)
I didn't get too much response from users of bibliographic s/w as to what they were using, and what they thought of it. Here's the only detailed response: ---------------------------------------------------- From: williams@pangea.Stanford.EDU (Tom Williams) The program that I've used quite a bit is called Pro-Cite. It's available for both PC and Macintosh and the databases seem to be completely compatible when transferred back and forth. It's sold by Personal Bibliographic Software, Inc. I only have their service phone number handy, it's 313-996-1580. I like the program a lot. It's very flexible and could handle almost any bibliographic situation you'd like to handle. It has very functional database operations and so forth. It's limited to about 6000 references that'll fit in any individual database. It's a little confusing to set up the punctuation format for your output to transfer into your word processing the first time. I like it though. I think a copy goes for ~ $300 US Tom Williams Department of Geology Stanford University, School of Earth Sciences ------------------------------------------------------------ Endnote is used extensively on Macintoshes here and in the University of Western Australia near to us. The general opinion at UWA seems to be that Endnote is a nicer package to use than Pro-Cite Mac, and it costs about half of the price of he latter. Apparently Endnote for PC will be available sometime in 1991. In addition, there's a cheap package called "Publish or Perish" (!) for PC which I've ordered to have a look at. Ian Hill Curtin University of Technology ------------------------------------------------------------- I found a series of reviews in a book called "Bits, Bytes, and Biblical Studies" by John J hughes, Academie Books, Grand rapids 1987, isbn 0-310-28581-X This book is highly recommended as a good addition to an academic's bookshelf. It has a detailed comparison of these IBM PC bibliography packages, and concludes with the following comments about them: The Research Assistant $70 "Easy to use,... reasonably priced..." Pro-Cite $395 "Most complex, powerful and flexible of the bibliographic programs..." Sapana Cardfile $195 "Not as easy to use as The Research Assistant" Bibliog $49.50 "No comment" Notebook II $264 "...powerful, very flexible and easy to use" Citation $185 "...fast, flexible and powerful" Sequitar $79.95 "relational database...most powerful and flexible program listed... not designed as a bibliography program...but can be used as such" Ian Hill