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Assuming a general interest in this topic I am posting information on
ReferenceManager kindly mailed to me by: lillyj@ohsu.EDU (Jill Lilly)

To: ICH530@ZAM001.ZAM.KFA-JUELICH.DE
Subject: Re: Bibliography Program

ReferenceManager is sold by:
RIS = Research Information Systems, Inc.
Camino Corporate Center
2355 Camino Vida Roble
Carlsbad, CA   92009
(619) 438-5526.

Reference Mgr has the capability to accept import from MEDLINE and other
reference database services or from keyboard entry. Once your database is
developed, references can be  retrieved by author, keywords, journal, year,
editor, titles or notes. Each ref. is assigned a unique  i.d. number. You have
wild card options, as well as logical connectors (and/or, not, etc.) in the
search function.

Manuscripts can be written which refer to the unique i.d. numbers (set off
by special characters). A "generate bibliography" feature will substitute
the author's name and year in text (if that style is used) or reference
citations (#'s 1, 2, 3, etc.) either in citation order or alphabetically
by author.  The program also then generates a bibliography list which
can be added to the  end of your manuscript. If used properly, it works great.

Some care must be taken in the data entry phase to ensure that consistency
is adhered to (same abbreviations used in journal entries, etc.).

RIS has a nice brochure about their program, you may wish to call to request
it.  If you are at a university, you might check with your library to see
if they have by chance  purchased a site license for the program. Our medical
library here at the Oregon Health Sciences University purchases 10 copies at
a time, and then sells them to departments for around $200. It's a good program.

Now, the bad part. I feel that the Mac version may not be as robust as I
would  like. I've had problems with the program unexpectedly quitting if left
running on an unattended machine.  This corrupts the entire data base
(or it claims to have done so), and then the database must be re-indexed.
This takes a fair amount of time for the number of references that I
have (around 2800). This database is supposed to be capable of handling 32,000
references, so it's not the size of the database that is the problem. I
just have to be careful to close the program when not in use.

I hope you find a program that meets your needs. This one has a lot of great
features, and I'm sure the problem with crashes will be resolved in future
editions. So far, I have not lost any of my references due to the crashes.

Jill Lilly