[Papyrus-L] Important Papyrus news

[Hugh Gunz]

I've had a quick look at some of the reviews (there's a useful template for 
evaluating packages at www.burioni.it/forum/bfsres.htm, for example, and 
another comparison table at 
http://php.iupui.edu/~rsosborn/Scholars_Quest/References/Gathering/Reference_Tools/BibliographicSoftware.html).

The world looks depressingly like a monopoly run by ISI (who now own 
ProCite, EndNote and Reference Manager). They have their own crude 
comparison between the packages at 
http://www.isiresearchsoft.com/rscompare.asp. You're forced to go to 
Reference Manager if you follow the ISI route and have true networking 
needs (i.e. several users needing to edit references simultaneously), but 
there are others that can handle this (e.g. Library Master at 
http://www.balboa-software.com/, although a quick look at that suggests a 
number of limitations, in particular that it uses the Papyrus way of 
converting document files: it scans the file to convert the codes, so that 
(so far as I can tell from the documentation) the codes are lost and the 
conversion can't be undone later).

The ISI stable seem to be an odd mixture of packages, each of which have 
their good and bad points, but none of which seems to combine the good 
points of all. EndNote is clearly very popular, but a quick look at it by 
comparison with the other two suggested that it was rather more primitive. 
That, of course, may be (as they say) A Good Thing.

Except that the need to do all this is clearly A Bad Thing. I, too, feel 
badly let down, even though Dave, presumably, is feeling a whole lot worse.

Cheers
Hugh Gunz
University of Toronto

At 16:23 2001-10-11 -0500, you wrote:
>Does anyone have a suggestion about the citation/database program to switch
>to?  I've used Papyrus for almost 10 years and have a huge database.  Is
>there a program that can unproblematically read the Papyrus database and
>convert it to the new program's format?
>
>Carolyn Cassady
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