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Roger A. Lohmann commented on Bookends

2010-05-31T23:17:25Z

Roger A. Lohmann commented on Bookends
Bookends is produced by a small, independent software company in Maryland, USA, and offers virtually all of the functionality of EndNote at a fraction of the price. It has all the usual access to bibliographic data bases and formatting options. In addition to the usual databases, like the Library of Congress, PubMed and a wide variety of university Z39.50 configured locations. Bookends can also extract bibliographic information from Google Scholar searches, as well as Amazon sites in the U.S., Canada and Great Britain, France, Germany and Japan.
Bookends can also function as a database manager for PDF files, which is very handy and with a bit of planning could be a very powerful feature with lots of handy organizational applications.

A Word tool functions much like the tool for Endnote in producing fully integrated citations and bibliographies. Fully formatted individual entries can be copied and pasted almost anywhere.

Searches can be imported in a two-step process using the "Hits" collection. This is particularly helpful with Google Scholar searches, which can produce a fair number of "noise". A secondary search of the hits can identify the "keepers" and import them into the main database.

All in all, I've found Bookends to be a useful, even powerful, bibliographic tool. After many years of using a much more expensive alternative, with regular, expensive updates, I've switched to Bookends (which imported my entire 20,000+ item bibliography without a hitch.

Bookends: License updated: proprietary

2010-05-31T20:20:31Z

Bookends: License updated: proprietary

License is "proprietary"
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Bookends: Version updated: 11.0.4

2010-05-31T20:20:22Z

Bookends: Version updated: 11.0.4

Version is "11.0.4"
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Bookends: Publisher updated: Sonny Software, Inc.

2010-05-31T20:19:59Z

Bookends: Publisher updated: Sonny Software, Inc.

Publisher is "Sonny Software, Inc."
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Bookends: Summary updated: Full-scale bibliographic database program, that includes tutorials, Word add-ins, 240 formats, 230 import filters, datab...

2010-05-31T20:19:47Z

Bookends: Summary updated: Full-scale bibliographic database program, that includes tutorials, Word add-ins, 240 formats, 230 import filters, datab...

Summary is "Full-scale bibliographic database program, that includes tutorials, Word add-ins, 240 formats, 230 import filters, database server, and ability to search many online databases including Google Scholar."
(was "Full-scale bibliographic database program, that includes Word add-ins, 240 formats, 230 import filters, database server, and ability to search many online databases including Google Scholar.")

New Tool: Bookends

2010-05-31T20:19:10Z

New Tool: Bookends