The ideal computer-based research system has yet to be invented, but the reviews and essays collected here will provide you with a sense of what can be done now.

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A bibliographical software package provides a database in which you may store publication information for your scholarly references. Most packages provide the additional capability of scanning an existing document and updating shorthand names for individual references with the full bibliographical format. Some of the packages provide tools for downloading additional references from CDROM, the web, or library catalogs.

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Notes and Commentary

» List of Known Bibliographical Software Packages
» What is Z39.50?
» Review Kit for Bibliographical Software
» CharMap for Latin Alphabet Diacritics

Web-based Software
» Britannica Online

Windows Software
» Comparison Grid for Bibliographical Software

» AskSam 3.0
» Biblioscape 3.0
» BookWhere? 2000 2.1
» Citation 7.1
» EndNote 3.0
» Free-form Information Managers
» ProCite 4.0
» Reference Web Poster 1.1

Macintosh Software

» Bookends Plus 5.0
» Endnote 3.0

DOS Software

» Library Master 3.0
» Papyrus 7.0