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CarolNewton-Smith is to be congratulated on this valuable document,
available via anonymous ftp from
info.curtin.edu.au, in the directory /pub/curtin/library, in the file
biblio.rtf

The only comments I would make at present is that a number of her minor
criticisms of EndNote/EndLink have already been met in versions 2.0. 
These
include the number of styles available (now an extensive set included
in
the upgrade disks), the availability of a keyword authority list and a
range of editable filters for importing from different data bases
including
DIALOG, DIMDI, ISI  CD (Medline format), Knowledge Index, Grateful Med
(NLM), OVID CD Plus, Silver Platter, STN, UMI and MARC.

I guess my only criticism of EndLink 2.0 is that there is no easy way
of
selecting the appropriate filter for a set of references when you don't
know the format of origin.  For example,  bio-journals@net.bio.net is a
list moderated by  the BIOSCI Administrator that puts out the contents
of a
number of journals, but it's quite difficult to work out which filter
to
use.

Carol rightly points out that the limitation of 32,000 references in
EndNote (compared with 100,000 for ProCite) is unlikely to pose a
problem
to the average academic limited to a desktop PC or Mac.  My master
library
is now over 6MB and is a headache to back up (I use a 44 MB PLI
cartridge).


The review poses a number of challenges for the future development of
bibliographic software including  the need for cross-reference to
related
records,  hypertext links between records, searching and formatting
across
a range of databases (long on the wish list) and the desirability of
being
able to create hypermedia links to documents/images held locally or on
the
Internet.   Incidentally, ProCite now has a WWW home page: how about
it,
Niles?



Jim "I refuse to have a signature" Cummins                   
School of Veterinary Studies
Murdoch University
Western Australia 6150  Tel +61-9-360 2668 Fax +61-9-310 4144
E-mail cummins@possum.murdoch.edu.au