7.0324 Rs: Bibliographic Experieces; CHum Sub (3/123)
Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 1 Dec 1993 18:02:53 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 7, No. 0324. Wednesday, 1 Dec 1993.
(1) Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 19:21:53 -0500 (EST) (34 lines)
From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty)
Subject: real-life bibliographic experience
(2) Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 11:29:51 +0200 (SAST) (28 lines)
From: John Hilton <HILTON@mtb.und.ac.za>
Subject: Re: Biblio software (2/35)
(3) Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1993 13:34:14 -0700 (MST) (61 lines)
From: BushC@BYUVAX.BITNET (Chuck Bush)
Subject: Subscription to Computers and the Humanities
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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 19:21:53 -0500 (EST)
From: mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca (W. McCarty)
Subject: real-life bibliographic experience
This in response to the recent call for "real-life experience" with
bibliographic management software, specifically EndNote Plus and
ProCite.
Years ago I encountered ProCite, was repelled by it, and so haven't
looked since. Perhaps it has improved.
I use EndNote (for MS-DOS; there's a Mac original) and teach with it.
The MS-DOS version has some interfacial infelicities, but the basic
design is brilliant, in fact better than the manual will lead you to
believe. Essentially the virtue of the design is that templates are
allowed on input and output, so you can specify or determine what kind
of entity you wish to record as well as how you want it to be
presented. This allows the software to be extended to something more
general that a mere bibliographic manager, namely a manager of
research materials, such as notes.
The whole discussion of bibliographic management needs to be raised to
the level at which the discussants see that it is a special case of a
larger problem. This problem EndNote makes a fairly good attempt at
solving -- a strong recommendation from the likes of any scholar who asks
for what he or she really wants.
WM
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Willard McCarty / Centre for Computing in the Humanities
University of Toronto / mccarty@epas.utoronto.ca
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Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1993 11:29:51 +0200 (SAST)
From: John Hilton <HILTON@mtb.und.ac.za>
Subject: Re: Biblio software (2/35)
The University of Natal, Durban, recently (1993) went through the
process of evaluating bibliographic software. Our final two choices
were ProCite and Endnote Plus. We decided on the latter mainly on the
grounds that Endnote Plus had a better price structure and licencing
policy. We also had people with experience of the package on campus
who could help with training as "expert partners". We tried to avoid
'feature wars' but the lack of a global edit facility in Endnote Plus was
worrying. We believe though that this will be put right in an imminent
release.
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Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1993 13:34:14 -0700 (MST)
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