© F. Dell'Orso, Bibliography Formatting Software: An Evaluation Template
Last update: November, 17, 2003


      4. Bookends: shorter grid
 4.3. General

The overstriked grid's items have not been taken into account for the purposes of this shorter evaluation: it does not imply at all that the package cannot perform the relevant function.
The numbering and the content are the same as the full version of the evaluation grid.


3 General

3.1 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. Other

Bookends: 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 11 12 14 16 [18 see below 3.8]
19 Can work with companion software Reference Miner. The latter searches Amazon (DE, US, UK) or PubMed: drag and drop retrieved records into Bookends

3.2 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

Bookends: no

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

Bookends: none

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

Bookends: 3 hit/marked list 4 groups

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

Bookends: no

3.6 Data type
   1. textual (also ANSI table chars 128-255)
   2. numeric
   3. graphic
   4. sound

Bookends: 1 (3 and 4 etc. as attachments)

you can view any QuickTime compatible graphic without leaving Bookends and switching to the relevant application; this includes all popular graphic formats, pdf preview --in OS X--, and QT movies

3.7 Command macros

Bookends: no

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

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© F. Dell'Orso, Bibliography Formatting Software: An Evaluation Template
Last update: November, 17, 2003