Re: Citation

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Posted by graham.smith
2006-01-06 03:31:35

Derek,

I started with Papyrus for DOS, it is still a great program and a shame that it suddenly came to a mysterious end. I then bought Biblioscape, but found it heavy on resources and a bit unstable. I then moved to Citation. Then Library Master, then Ibidem for a short spell, then EndNote, but I am thinking of going back to a combination of EndNote and Biblioscape.

Endnote downloads directly from Web of Science, which I use a lot, and Onfolio will send web page references and references scraped from Amazon to EndNote. The EndNote files can be read by almost everything, but EndNote itself is a very limited program.

Biblioscape offers the best tools for managing references, and because will paste in text citations into anything eg Brainstorm which can then feed through to Word for creating bibliogrpahies. It will also read and write a wide range of file formats.

In a recent pantomime, of tryng to get my references out of Library Master and into EndNote. I discovered that Library Master wouldn’t export in any useful format. However, Ibidem would read the native Library Master files, Citation 8 would read the Ibidem files, but not export them into anything useful. EndNote would only read early versions of Citation files, but the demo of Biblioscape 6 could read the Citation files and export them as as EndNote files, which EndNote could then import.

So I am now looking at Endnote as my general bibliographic tool hoovering tool with biblioscape as my bibliographic management tool.

However, I haven’t yet made that final leap as even Biblioscape 6 is proving a little flakey. I had a problem importing the Ibidem files into Citation and emailed Citation support, and true to form they never replied.

I’m not overlly impressed with any of them, indeed recently I even brushed the dust off my Papyrus manuals, but didn’t actually get the length of re-installing it.

Graham

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