RefMan 10 Down; RefMan 11 To Go

April 11th, 2004 Stewart Posted in Uncategorized |

I just completed my preparations for my new Reference Manager 10 workshop, including drafting a 20-page handout and designing 3.5 hours of course content and notes. Which is excellent timing on my part, since Ref Man 11 just came out a couple of weeks ago.

I can begin to see it, at least — why someone might have a preference for this particular bibliographic management package instead of, say, ProCite. With the addition of Web publishing to ver. 11, that preference becomes even clearer.

That said, I still really prefer EndNote. The user interface is superior, it comes with about 300 more styles built in (not to mention 250 some-odd MS Word templates) and the search interface is more intuitive and functional. Frankly, neither program really takes full advantage of Z39.50 protocols, or comes with a decent spellchecker, but for just getting my papers written and out the door, EndNote would take the prize.

I still need to investigate Biblioscape in more detail, however.