Talk:Comparison of reference management software/Archives/2014
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"Evil"
I understand that lock-in is a bad thing for many (maybe even most) users, but it doesn't seem neutral to call that "evil". As WP:NPOV says: "The tone of Wikipedia articles should be impartial, neither endorsing nor rejecting a particular point of view." Presumably the authors or publishers of software that locks in users would not agree with its characterization as "evil". Why not just describe the policy (lock-in) rather than take the position that it is "evil"? --Macrakis (talk) 00:05, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
- It also seems to violate WP:NOR. I plan to revert it out-right. --Karnesky (talk) 21:00, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
Reference Manager
MODS support
Does someone have a reference (or even a screenshot) showing Reference Manager MODS XML export? --Karnesky 20:05, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
- It is not documented anywhere, so it seems to have been a false entry. --Karnesky 20:09, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
Import formats
I wonder about the selection of import formats. Particularly I don't believe CSA format exists anymore, as all CSA databases are now part of Proquest, which doesn't have its own format. On the other hand it seems odd that MARC and MARCXML are missing? bastel (talk) 17:20, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
References for the import formats would be useful too. The product seems to conflate file import with database connectivity for PubMed/Medline/etc. --Karnesky 20:08, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
- In particular, can someone cite bibtex support? The other thompson products can't import this & the ftp site shows no filter. --Karnesky 11:44, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
- Again, the program's own documentation and another comparison betray mistaken entries. --Karnesky 20:12, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
Export formats
Same as Karnesky, I can't find any support for exporting to BibTeX (with RefMan 12.3). I also couldn't find anything in the program's help or on their website. I'm going to correct this entry. --JonathanWilliford (talk) 15:31, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
Potential mistake
I am not familiar with the information presented here, but I think I hove found a mistake. "BibBase Christian Fritz 2005 2013-07 (v3) Free No proprietary centrally-hosted website, intended for publication pages" This is one of the table entries. How can a program have a cost of free but be not free (look at the table if this doesn't make sense)? Again, I do not know the software but I believe it at least needs some clarification. Guy who couldn't get a username (talk) 17:20, 28 July 2014 (UTC) After looking back over the article, I found that there are several such entries. Can we work on a way to clarify this? Guy who couldn't get a username (talk) 17:22, 28 July 2014 (UTC)