Sato H, Sato S, Horikoshi I
Department of Hospital Pharmacy, Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Japan.
Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 1996 Jun;50(1):53-61. doi: 10.1016/0169-2607(96)01731-2.
We have developed a reference management system, MacRefer, using HyperTalk on Macintosh personal computers. Using this program, one can automatically acquire data from databases created by EndNote Plus and from OVID- or Medlar-formatted records downloaded via an online use of Medline. The MacRefer's capability of formatting bibliographic database in user-defined formats is comparable with the exemplified bibliography maker, EndNote Plus. Moreover, MacRefer has several competitive features, which are insufficiently equipped with EndNote Plus. For example, MacRefer is capable of (1) maintaining subsets within a database, (2) executing complex, structured searches combining up to nine keywords for any data field with the results and search conditions preserved, and (3) easily browsing (a portion of) reference database. Although MacRefer cannot be recognized as an absolute alternative of EndNote Plus because of several limitations inherent to HyperCard, the compensatory use of these two programs will expand the personal utilization of bibliographic databases.
我们使用苹果麦金塔个人电脑上的HyperTalk开发了一个参考文献管理系统MacRefer。使用这个程序，用户可以自动从EndNote Plus创建的数据库以及通过在线使用Medline下载的OVID格式或Medlar格式的记录中获取数据。MacRefer以用户定义格式格式化书目数据库的能力与示例书目制作工具EndNote Plus相当。此外，MacRefer还有一些EndNote Plus所没有的竞争优势。例如，MacRefer能够（1）在数据库中维护子集，（2）执行复杂的结构化搜索，最多可组合九个关键词用于任何数据字段，并保留结果和搜索条件，以及（3）轻松浏览（部分）参考文献数据库。尽管由于HyperCard固有的一些限制，MacRefer不能被视为EndNote Plus的绝对替代品，但这两个程序的互补使用将扩大书目数据库的个人用途。
