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In article <jratliff-100993091149@econ179.bpa.arizona.edu>,
Jim Ratliff <jratliff@bpavms.bpa.arizona.edu> wrote:
>In article <mbxfd-100993125624@macfd.biochem.nott.ac.uk>,
>mbxfd@unicorn.nott.ac.uk (Fergus Doherty) wrote:
>
>> Now I might be the only one who thinks this would be useful but:
>> 
>> EndNote can carry out successive searches on previously selected records
>> (at least the earlier version I had did).  Although EndNote Plus has a much
>> better search facility I think this might be useful in EndNote Plus as
>> well.  So you set up what might be a complex search on a large database and
>> it returns too many records.  Ok so you could alter the search by including
>> more criteria and search the whole database again.  But why not be able to
>> select the currently retrieved records to be searched again with new
>> criteria?  Could be useful, perhaps............ I think.
>
>Related to this are two other suggestions:
>
>(1) Be able to keep all references you have already found, and simply ADD
>to this set, rather than REPLACE this set, with the results of an
>additional search.
>
>(2) After you have found a set of references, be able to selectively
>discard (from the found set, not from the reference library) references.
>
>It seems that the way EN+ is currently set up, you must at some point come
>up with a single, possibly very complicated boolean set of search criteria
>which, in one fell swoop, will give you exactly the references you want.
>Implementing the above suggestions would often simplify this task greatly.
>

Yes to all of these!


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