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I purchased recently the EndNote Plus and Endlink 2.0 in order to get
references into papers with minimal extra work. Now, when I started to look
at ways to import the data of my area into EndNote, I was quite shocked:
all the import filters are ASCII ONLY! That means that all typographical
information is lost in the transfer and have to be added manually...
This is just unacceptable in my area of science, where latin names, super-
and subscripts etc. are found in almost all titles of papers. Having
to go through a database of e.g. 15 000 references just to correct the
titles to what they should be is a huge task, and does not pay the time
used for it, and without the actual papers at hand the result would not be
totally correct either.

I have to say that I am most frustrated because of this limitation (if I
had known it, I would never had purchased EndNote or any other reference
database), and also most surpriced because researchers obviously accept 
this kind of inconvenience. At least I am already very badly short of time 
in research business and this kind of extra work feels totally mindless. 
Because the information is already there, in the original papers, there 
should absolutely be a way to transfer the references without losing crucial 
information!

I do not know what might be the best practical solution to this problem,
but wouldn't it be possible for the bibliografic information providers
to export the data in the native binary file format of Endnote (and
other Databases), that is, already as a database? Or even better, IS 
there already some bibliographic source having this ability? If there
is, please let me know!


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  Reijo Ronkko     University of Helsinki, Dept. of General Microbiology,
  Ph. Lic.         P.O.Box 41, FIN-00014 Helsingin yliopisto, Finland
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