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[Hugh Gunz]

Hi John

I think there's some kind of limit to the size of the database, but it's a 
very large number and I think it's a system limitation rather than a 
Biblioscape one -- certainly it's much bigger than any database I've heard 
people talk about.

Like pretty much all of the other systems I've looked at, Biblioscape 
assigns its own identifying number to each reference. Our way round this 
was to put the Papyrus reference number in an appropriate field in the 
Biblioscape database, so each reference has a Biblioscape and a Papyrus 
number. It's not ideal, but it does address the problem a lot of us have, 
namely that we file our reprints by Papyrus number. It doesn't deal with 
the problem that you may have a bunch of papers with Papyrus codes in them. 
They'll need changing, unfortunately. I haven't heard of anyone who's found 
a package that gets around this one; it'd be interesting to know if there 
was one.

Hugh Gunz

At 10:15 2002-08-01 -0500, you wrote:
>Hugh-
>     are there limits on the number of references Biblioscape can handle?
>Will it accept papryus numbers?
>   -john rodgers
>
>At 07:22 AM 8/1/02 -0400, you wrote:
> >Perhaps not a bad time to review the experience that many of us have had
> >since what I suspect may have been a mass tear-stained emigration when Dave
> >was finally able to announce the details of Papyrus's future.
> >
> >Reference Manager and the others in the ISI stable were certainly talked
> >about a lot. I went for Biblioscape, and it's turned out to be a good
> >decision. Aside from being pretty fully-featured (they all have their good
> >and bad points), its real strength from my point of view is the way it
> >makes databases intra- or Internet-accessible so I can get at and edit my
> >references from anywhere. That also makes it very good for teams of
> >researchers. The developers are extremely responsive to suggestions for
> >improvement, too.
> >
> >Hugh Gunz
> >University of Toronto
> >
>John R. Rodgers, Ph.D
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>Department of Immunology
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>
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