3.3. General

General

Library Master Procite EndNote Reference Manager Papyrus

1. Available functions: summary
   1. Search
   2. Remote search (Z39.50)
   3. Print
   4. Export
   5. Sort
   6. Input/Cataloguing
   7. Global corrections
   8. Import
   9. Reformatting during import
   10. Input via catching www pages
   11. Manuscript formatting (also from within the wp)
   12. Managing term lists
   13. Thesaurus
   14. Duplicates detection
   15. Circulation (Loans)
   16. Can activate external files and applications (OLE or OS' Shell)
   17. Compute
   18. Graphic files management
   19. Publishing database on the Intra/Internet www 
   20. Other

LM:
1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 (not from within the wp) 12 14 16

As for 15: a "Library Catalog" database structure is also available, with fields for borrower's name and due date. You can search and print a report for overdue items, but there are not circulation procedures, or the relationship between bibliographic records and borrowers' records

Pr:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 14 16 OLE
En:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 12 14 16 18* 20*

For Palm OS devices functionality see Identity card
18: can include graphics in references, as thumbnails when record is opened; graphics will be referred to in MS-WORD formatted manuscript, also containing dedicated list of figures (see section 13); can also include objects like spreadsheets or presentations documents; each db record can contain only one figure or object; dedicated record fields and edit command to store graphics / objects and the relevant captions; copy of the graphics / objects files is stored in a db subdirectory; graphics / objects cannot be exported; 20: (a) can send data to a data visualization tool for statistical analysis (i.e. RefViz® http://www.refviz.com/ ); (b) can use OpenURL; (c)  Unicode compliant as far as entering, importing, sorting and displaying characters (based on MS-Windows) see Other features 

RM:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 12 14 16 (OLE) 19 (not only publishing but makes it available for editing, adding, duplicating and deleting references)
Papyrus:
1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 (not from within the wp) 12 13 14 16 18 [can display and export PICT format images within records]

2. Internal database management
   1. Create
   2. Rename
   3. Copy
   4. Delete
   5. Undelete
   6. Rebuild
   7. Save
   8. Compress (release space)
   9. Record undelete
   10. Revert global corrections
   11. Statistics

LM: 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 (as 6) Pr:
1 2 3 4 6 7 8 (as 6)

6 Rebuild makes a copy and releases disk space; retains Groups and Stopwords of original database, but removes its Record list's configuration

En:
1 (3 and 8 via 6 recover library) 6 7
RM
1; 4 (not internally reversible); 6; 7; 8 (as 6); 11

6 rebuild does not need to make a copy, releases disk space, it retains Reference Indexes (Groups) and brief record list configuration
11 File Properties gives in addition to standard properties: sort criterium and order (A/D), character set sort, total record number, total number of entries for authors, kw, periodical titles and dates, highest RefID

Papyrus:
1 6 11

3. Functions across different databases
   1. search
   2. print
   3. global corrections
   4. duplicate detection
   5. manuscript formatting

LM: none Pr: 5 En: 5 (while formatting a manuscript via CWYW can search more than one opened db) RM: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5
to use multiple database, sort criterium and order must be the same; can act across 15 database; can display -not use- combined term lists
Papyrus: none

4. Database subsets
    1. retrieved records
    2. highlighted records
    3. marked records
    4. virtual sets
    5. imported set
    6. duplicate set

LM: 1 3 (not across sessions) 4 5 6 Pr: 1 2 3 4 ("groups") 5 6 En: 1 2 5 6

n.b. no marked records or groups of virtual records 

RM 1 2 3 (disappear when database is closed) 4 ("reference indexes": they must be first selected as a filed and searched as such via theri name to display the records they point to) 5 6 Papyrus: 1 2 4 5 6

5. Other library functions
   (e.g. acquisitions, periodicals control, circulation, statistics)
    1. built-in
    2. can integrate

LM: no Pr: no En: no RM: no

just a few statistics, see above in "Internal db management"

Papyrus: no

6. Data type that can handle
   1. textual (also ANSI table chars 128-255, includes link to external proprietary files like PDF)
   2. numeric
   3. graphic
   4. audio

LM: 1 2 3 OLE; 4 OLE

can format, sort and search in a special way: dates, call numbers, names, references to literature sources

Pr: 1; 3 OLE; 4 OLE

2: can format and sort Dates and Call number in a special way: for dates, chronological value underneath format; for classification codes: first LCCN, then DDC, then digits, then letters

En: 1: can handle Unicode characters sets; can link to -and then open- PDF and URL in 2 specific fields, but in fact it's up to you what to put in those fields: .txt .doc .gif ... and whatsoever
3: incorporates thumbnails of graphics in the edit record view, not in the formatted preview; graphics can be incorporated in MS-WORD manuscripts; 3 and 4 also external via Windows Shell
RM: 1; 3 OLE; 4 OLE; can link to -and then open- PDF and URL in 5 specific fields, but in fact it's up to you what to put in those fields: .txt .doc .gif ... and whatsoever
Papyrus: 1;

[2 recognizes numeric value of fields but does not compute]; 3 can display, print export graphics within records (as long as PICT representation is included in original graphic), other format files can be linked via external applications; 4 via external applications

7. Command macros

LM: no

they were available in the DOS version

Pr: no En: no RM no Papyrus: no

8. Mouse
    1. right click
    2. drag-and-drop

LM: 1 2 for input worksheets design Pr: 1 2 En: 1 2 RM 1 2 Papyrus: 2


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