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In article <930902090706.2cc0381b@CCSUA.CTSTATEU.EDU>, you wrote:
> 
> Would someone be so kind as to provide a brief comparison of EndNote
> with the other major bibliographic software programs, particularly
> ProCite and Reference Manager?  I am particularly interesting in
> their respective capabilities for import and export, maximum size of
> their Notes (or its equivalent)field, speed (opening the app and run-
> ning its editing and record changing operations), indexing capabilities,
> and ease of clipboard use.
> 
> Is there any bibliographic software (other than for unix) that does
> not assume a DOS base; is any in the works?
> 
> Haines Brown (brownh@ccsua.ctstateu.edu)

A few years ago I looked at Pro-Cite, Reference Manager and EndNote on the
Mac and together with a colleague published a review in Computer
Applications in the Biosciences.  We came down strongly in favour of
EndNote then because it was: less expensive but did just about everything
you wanted to, fast, simple to use and adhered to Macintosh interface
conventions.  Since then EndNote Plus came out, which is an even better
product.  Reference Manager has also been improved and is pretty good, but
more expensive (at least here) the interface is not as good either so I
still feel EndNote PLus wins on the Mac.  Pro-Cite at the time was very
clunky and awkward to use in inserting citations and formatting styles, the
nested dialog boxes went on forever!  You also need an expensive additional
program (biblio-Links) to import data from Medline etc.  I feel Pro-Cite is
more suited to librarians than academic authors of papers etc.  Of course
Pro-Cite on the Mac may have improved since then.  I, and I would imagine
just about all on this list, remain a happy EndNote user, it does just
about everything I want easily and relatively cheaply (but we pay too much
in the UK!).  Finally I don't know if there are user groups like this for
Pro-Cite and Refman, but the existence of this group and the involvement of
Avi must say something about the company's commitment to the academic
community.  There is another product called Papyrus, but I know nothing
about it.

PS I haven't been payed to say this!

PPS it would be nice if somehow Endnote or EndLink could put a period after
abbreviations in the Journal field  (eg Biochem. J.) where these don't
occur in databases (Refman does this!).

Fergus Doherty,
dept. Biochemistry,
University Medical School,
Queen's Medical Centre,
Nottingham NG7 2UH
Tel: 602 709366  FAX 602 422225 Internet: mbxfd@unicorn.nott.ac.uk