Re: Reviews of personal bibliographic software

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1 total messages Started by Dr Jim Cummins Mon, 29 Nov 1993 05:29

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Author: Dr Jim Cummins
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1993 05:29

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The following review appears in the latest Nature.  Leirs H, De Bruyn L
(1993) New ideas for personal library maintenance software.  Nature 366:
183-184.

The authors used a recent review of 12 products (Neal PR(1993) BioScience
43: 44-51 to construct their own package, MAINBIB (Leirs H, De Bruyn L
(1990) Belg J Zool 120 Suppl 1: 42).   It appears to have a number of
attractive features including a standard thesaurus of keywords and a
networking facility that automatically "keeps track of all changes on any
PC, exports the updated information to a single floppy disc and imports it
to every other PC".  The problem of networking with people using home PCs
or laptops can only be overcome by regular backups on the "home" computer.

 Rather puzzling is their downgrading of EN+ because it "did not support
keywords".  Avi, you should respond to this error!

Jim Cummins

Associate Professor in Veterinary Anatomy
Murdoch University,
Murdoch Western Australia 6150
Tel. +61-9-360 2668
Fax +61-9-310 4144
E mail cummins@possum.murdoch.edu.au

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