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Reference Manager 9
ISI ResearchSoft www.risinc.com
Minimum hardware requirements for Windows 95/98INT4: Intel Pentium or faster processor with 16 MB RAM, at least 10 MB available hard disk space, and a CD-ROM drive. To take advantage of the 11 cite while you write" feature, Microsoft Word (version 7 or 97 or later) or Corel WordPerfect (version 7 or 8 or later) is necessary. To take advantage of imbedded Internet links and Z39.50 database seaching, an Internet connection and Web browser are necessary. Not available for Macintosh computers.
Advertised by ISI ResearchSoft as "3 Research Tools in 1," Reference Manager is a full-featured personal citation management program. It allows users to search and automatically import references from Z39.50compliant library databases (using Internet Reference Searcher), to import references from online and local database services such as Ovid and SilverPlatter, to organize and track an unlimited number of references to books, chapters, journal articles, and other publication types (using Database Manager), and to automatically format and re-format bibliographies in hundreds of journal styles (using Bibliography Builder).
Reference Manager 9 has features that are useful at a variety of different points in the research process. For identifying relevant resources, the Internet Reference Searcher allows users to specify up to 244 Z39.50-compliant databases (Reference Manager calls them "Internet Libraries") to search simultaneously from within the Reference Manager interface. The user specifies the search terms to use and the fields to search, then selects the library databases to be searched. Reference Manager accesses the databases, runs the search, and imports the references into Reference Manager, all in just minutes. Once imported, the user can review the results,...