[Papyrus-L] Migration from Papyrus

[Rodgers, John R.]

I've migrated to Endnote very reluctantly.  I did it to interface with co-authors who use it, and because I needed to know it well enough to teach using it to graduate students.
   You can use keywords but they do not have the wonderful feature of Papyrus that they are indexed separately, and can be edited as universal keywords.  Endnote has a "fill-in" feature that will search its own working list for keywords that start with the same letters, but you cannot do extremely
valuable tasks such as merging keywords, or perform a global delete.

    Endnote is very slow in searching compared to Papyrus (probably because it doesn't index) and its Boolean capabilities are crude at best and sometimes actually fail inexplicably.  

   What really should happen in all this is that someone should take David's basic engine and covert it to Windows or Java.  I suspect his indexing feature is the genius kernel that drives most of we lose when we go to another package, and all we gain are those necessary cosmetic touches.  I'd go
back to Papyrus in a flash. I do understand that the market forces are difficult.  

   

John R. Rodgers, Ph.D.
Department of Immunology
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas 77030
713-798-3903
fax: 713-798-3700



-----Original Message-----
From: papyrus-l-bounces at ResearchSoftwareDesign.com on behalf of Borge M Christensen
Sent: Wed 4/11/2007 12:46 PM
To: 'Papyrus Discussion List'
Subject: Re: [Papyrus-L] Migration from Papyrus
 
Hi, Ane:
I, too, have been unable to find a satisfactory replacement for PAPYRUS.  My
database is to be used in an archival context for access more than a quarter
century from now.  Finding a computer then that can run MS-DOS based
software . . .
    Please, include me if you have a good suggestion.
Borge 
borgemc at comcast.net

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From: papyrus-l-bounces at ResearchSoftwareDesign.com
[mailto:papyrus-l-bounces at ResearchSoftwareDesign.com] On Behalf Of Ane
Ortega
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 4:29 AM
To: papyrus-l at ResearchSoftwareDesign.com
Subject: [Papyrus-L] Migration from Papyrus


My name is Ane, and have been using Papyrus for many years successfully.
However, I need to find a more 'modern' bibliographical database for my
Department, as my IT officer tells me that installing a software working
from MSDOS may give us problems (!). I have looked at EndNote, RefWorks, and
the like, and they are all very good and versatile, except for one feature
that I greatly value from Papyrus: the possibility of creating and attaching
as many notecards as I want to a given reference, as well as coding each
under their own keywords. 
 
I wonder if anybody from the group knows of an alternative to Papyrus.
 
Thank you in advance
 
Ane

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