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From: flowers@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Margot Flowers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Need info on Endnote
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Date: 12 Oct 89 12:26:38 GMT
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><A prof here wants to set up a bibliography/references database and I've
><suggested to him that he could either use a general purpose database such
><as Reflex Plus or use a more specific product such as Pro-Cite or EndNote...

>There was a comparison of these two in (I believe) MacWorld. It was probably
>6 to 9 months ago. It prompted me to get Pro-Cite because I was interested
>in the more extensive search capabilities and printing directly from Pro-Cite.

About that long ago, in [MacUser|MacWorld], there was a review
(perhaps the same one) that was full of errors on feature comparisons.
At the time I already owned EndNote, and was astonished to read that
the boolean searches I was already doing could not be done, and that I
could not print out collection bibliographies.  I had reason to talk
to the people at the company, and the person I talked to said that he
didn't know why the review was so incorrect, because the author was a
friend of theirs.  At the time I posted some message about the lousy
utility and accuracy of many reviews.

Moral:  look at the products themselves before making any final
decision.