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Velayutham C Chellapandian P Vineeshkumar M Thankiah R Dept IMPACT OF REFERENCE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE AND INFORMATION RETRIEVAL OF INTELECTUAL ASPECTS Velayutham C Chellapandian P Vineeshkumar M Thankiah R Dept. of Library and Information Science INTRODUCTION Reference management software is a software for scholars and authors to use for recording and utilizing bibliographic citations (references). The aim of this software is to save search results and publications with a view to using citations (references) to generate bibliographies. Indeed, publishers or journals often have different citation formats which is time- consuming activity when writing. General Features Full bibliographic references can be entered. Modern reference management packages can usually be integrated with word processors. Facility for importing the details of publications from bibliographic databases. Commercial Softwares Endnote Reference Manager Procite EndNote It is a commercial reference management software package. It is used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. It is made by Thomson Scientific //www.endnote.com www.endnote.com Features of EndNote Built-in import options for Refer, BibIx, ProCite, Reference Manager. conversion utilities for Papyrus, Notebook, Notebuilder, REF-11, Publish, SRS, REFLIST, Bookends, Citation It Connect command uses Z39.50 protocol to access remote online bibliographic databases using Endnote's search facilities Users can select citations, select a specific format, and save them as .txt files EndNote can automatically format the citation into whatever format the user wishes from a list of over two thousand different styles. For example, here are some citations from Gray's Anatomy using several different styles: Anthropos: Gray, Henry 1910 Anatomy, descriptive and applied. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger. [18th ed.] APA : 5thGray, H. (1910). Anatomy, descriptive and applied (18th ed.). Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger. Gary, Henry. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied. 18th ed. MLA : Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1910. New England J Medicine1: Gray H. Anatomy, descriptive and applied. 18th ed. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger; 1910. Reference Manager Is a commercial reference management software package sold by Thomson Reuters . Used to collect literature references of different types, to explore bibliographic resources on the Internet, as well as to serve for bibliographic data. www.refman.com Features of Reference Manager Reference Manager offers network features with simultaneous read/write access to databases (Cite While You Write) Instantly recall your last search. Scan and generate your final document in one step. Keep track of your last ten citation searches. It has a downloadable collection of over 1200 citation styles. It saves bibliographic data in RIS format which is now a common data exchange format. Keyword Sorting alphabetically, either globally or reference by reference. ProCite ProCite is a bibliographic database; it is an excellent tool to keep track of reading lists www.procite.com It can directlyFeatures import tagged of ProCite records from various bibliographic sources with an "Import Text File" tool. Convert Reference Manager databases or EndNote libraries to ProCite - from Windows, DOS, or Macintosh. Keep track of call numbers of frequently used resources, and to conduct library and online- database searches. It provides flexibility to group references and creates subject bibliographies Open Source Software BibDesk Bibus Connotea JabRef Pybliographer Refbase Referencer Searching the Web of Science Database Exporting the Records From Web of Science to EndNote Downloading the Records from Web of Science Database CONCLUSION The development of reference management packages has been driven by the rapid expansion of scientific literature. The trend towards collaborative research is gaining day-by-day. Every work of researchers depends purely on the library because it contains more source able information. It should make use of them for effective information management. .
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