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ANDREWS@BNLCHM.BITNET (Mark Andrews) writes:

>The EndNote Find Duplicates is virtually useless for me.  It requires a 
atch
>of author, year and title.  In my field (chemistry) and many others I su
pect,
>the title is often not entered the same from source to source, especiall
 if
>from an on line source such as Current Contents.  I would find match of
>volume, year, and first page the most useful.  Journal and author are al
o
>sometimes variable depending upon the source. I realize this doesn't
>handle books well, but in my area books are the exception anyway.

>Mark Andrews
>Dept of Chemistry
>Brookhaven National Laboratory
>MAA@BNL.GOV

I feel the same way.  Why not allow the user to determine which fields
must match?  What also would be useful would be to allow the user to
determine what degree of similarity constitutes a match.  For instance,
often a match is not detected because one reference uses a single space
where another uses a double space.  The user should be able to set EndNote
so that a 95% correlation, say, constitutes a match.  This is high on my
wish list.

Danny Blubaugh
Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Utah State University
BLUBAUGH@CC.USU.EDU
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