Bookends 10.6.1 for Mac

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Price: Update $99.00 to buy
Operating system: Mac OS X 10.5 Intel, Mac OS X 10.5.6 Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 PPC, Mac OS X 10.6, Mac OS X 10.6 Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Date added: October 15, 2009
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Reviewed by: Paul Hughes on July 28, 2009

Mac users have several good choices available when it comes to bibliography management applications. Bookends is among the best, and its trial version certainly merits a look from anyone who spends much time working with large numbers of academic and technical citations.

This app makes it easy to search for, download, and organize reference materials, as well as quickly create tightly formatted bibliographies in a variety of word processors--including excellent integration with Mellel and Word 2008. You can search across and save documents from any standard source, from PubMed, JSTOR, and the Library of Congress to Amazon, Google Scholar, and even any individual institutions to which you have access. The interface is not particularly attractive but it's hard-working and fairly customizable--with many different options for ordering, labeling, and groups--and Bookends' newly improved virtual note cards can be a big help when you need to annotate your references.

With a built-in HTTP server and good third-party app and database integration, Bookends is also a good choice for collaboration, even with users using other reference-management applications. There's a lot of competition in this category, and Bookends has only gotten better in recent versions.

Publisher's description

From Sonny Software :

Bookends is a full featured and cost-effective bibliography/reference and information management system for students and professionals. With Bookends you can easily import references (information about journal articles, books, etc.) from EndNote, and directly search and import from PubMed, the Web of Science, Google Scholar, JSTOR, Amazon, the Library of Congress, and hundreds of other online sources. Use a built-in browser to download references with pdfs or and/or web pages with a click. Automatic searches of PubMed let you discover articles as soon as they are published. Powerful group-based searches, with static, smart, and virtual groups. Live Search lets you further refine searches as you type. Annotate your database with reference cross-linking with defined relationships and comments. Attach any file (such as a pdf) to a reference and view or open it instantly. There are options to automatically download, rename and organize pdf files on-the-fly from PubMed (requires access permission) or from your hard drive. Scan your word processor files and automatically generate finished manuscripts with properly formatted bibliographies. Access the power of Bookends directly from MS Word (including Word 2008) and Mellel. Scan Pages '08 and '09 files and OpenOffice 3 files, or RTF files saved from any word processor. Share your references over the Internet with anyone, on any platform (you, but not people who access your databases, must have a broadband connection).

What's new in this version:

Integration with Nisus Writer Pro 1.4.
Autocomplete paper from pdfs attached with Bookends Browser.
Improved handling of MLA citations if consecutive citations are from the same work.
Deselect all unpinned terms in a Term List window.
Automatic downloading of the User Guide with each update.
Updated autcomplete paper using Google Scholar so that accented characters are handled correctly.
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