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Dear Avi

Thank you very much for your quick answer.

I agree that it is easy to assign a number to each reprint, to store
it in EndNote and then to find the paper in your file cabinet. However,
with that setup the problem is to perform a search in EndNote that
will retrieve ALL the references of interest and ONLY those. (the
problem is the same with Medline). It is hard to foresee how many
and which keywords to assign to each paper so that any future search
will be successful. Would an ideal database program have to store the
concepts used in the references and also the relationships between the
concepts to be fully effective ? The problem is that concepts evolve
with time as knowledge becomes more refined. Is there anything short
of artificial intelligence that will solve that problem ?

I bought and registered EndLink 1.1.5 and EndNote 1.2.1 a few months
ago. Although I have no problem with EndNote, I was wondering if I
qualified for a free EN 1.3 upgrade. I got EndLink 1.1.6 for free after
calling tech support, but as discussed below, I believe this version
still needs improvements.

I understand your concern about journal names like Cell that are not
abbreviated and therefore must not end with a period. So here is a
suggestion of how a new version of EndLink could work.
EndLink could build its own list of journal abbreviations. When
encountering a new journal EndLink would figure out the proper
placement of periods by comparing the abbreviated journal name
in the SO field to the complete journal name in the JT field.

SO Nucleic-Acids-Res.  1992 Nov 11.  20(21).  P 5593-600.
JT NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH.

As you can see in the example above, no period should follow the
words 'Nucleic' or 'Acids' since they are identical in the two fields.
However, the word 'Res' is shorter in the SO field and requires
a period.
As a last recourse, if the JT field happens to be damaged and EndLink
becomes confused, it could prompt the user for the correct abbreviation.

While we are dealing with feature details, let me clarify my previous
suggestion of also expanding the page numbers. Many page numbers
get incorrectly transcribed because of the confusion between letters
and numbers. Thus, S becomes 5 and I (uppercase i) becomes 1.
Therefore it would be really useful if EndNote would do the following
transformations.
248-53    ---->   248-253      easy
R676-80   ---->   R676-R680    use R twice
S253-6    ---->   s253-s256    s is clearly not 5
I34-7     ---->   i34-i37      i is clearly not 1

Yours virtually

Bernard Lassegue
medbpl@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu