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Posted by Dr Andus
Dec 31, 2008 at 01:31 PM
Jim wrote:
>Excellent question. Unfortunately, there is nothing that is a direct equivalent on
>the PC side. The closest that I have seen is Endnote. With Endnote, you can search the
>different public sites like Pubmed, and download the citation You can also download
>the paper and link it with the citation in Endnote. In that respect it is like Papers.
>However, if you are like me and have almost 1700 PDF files that you have downloaded, you
>can’t import them into Endnote and link them to the citation. I talked to the Thomson
>Research folks who publish Endnote, and they are interested in providing that
>function, but they haven’t yet.
Jim,
I’m not familiar with Papers, so I’m not sure if it’s the same functionality you have in mind but it is possible to link an EndNote reference to a PDF on one’s hard drive. I have more than 600 PDF files linked to EndNote references and this feature is one of the main attractions for me, in addition to the possibility to import citations from online databases and scholarly journals.
In EndNote 9.0 all you need to do is rightclick on a reference and choose “Link to PDF…” While it does not import the PDF file into EndNote, it does link the EndNote reference to a PDF file on the drive rather effortlessly. I certainly hope that this feature has survived into more recent versions of EndNote (which I haven’t tried yet). For my academic research purposes I’m happy with EndNote 9.0 and it really is a life-saver, an essential tool of the trade (which is not to say that it couldn’t be better or that there aren’t other viable solutions that might be better).