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Back to School: Malkinware Reference Tracker 1.0 for Mac OS X
TUAW's going Back to School! We'll be bringing you tips and reviews for students, parents and teachers right up until the bell rings in September. Read on for college-level help.If you're a college researcher, grad student, or undergrad, Malkinware's new Reference Tracker 1.0 for Mac OS X might be just the tool to help you with your academic research. Just in time for Back to School, Malkinware is even offering a 35% discount off of the $44.95 list price through September 30, 2008.
Reference Tracker creates documents that store citations and references used in books, research projects, or essays, and creates Harvard or APA formatted reference lists on demand. You can also:
- Create Full References in a single step
- Reference Web Pages and Emails with a single click
- Easily import existing Reference Lists
- Integration with Microsoft Word and Apple's Pages
- Easily Organize References
- Export formatted lists to anywhere
- Add Sticky Notes to References
A fully-functional 21-day trial is available from the Malkinware Web site. For info about other Mac research tools, read Brett's excellent Back to School post.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Vijesh said 9:01AM on 8-18-2008
plez mail me a Demonoid Invitation code...
vijesh_viju@yahoo.co.in
Thankyou...
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Brian said 9:02AM on 8-18-2008
There are several well-established and powerful bibliographic programs for Mac out there already: for example, Bookends and EndNote. From the Malkinware web site, it looks like Reference Tracker is aimed at high school students and possibly undergraduates, certainly not graduate students and absolutely not at professional researchers. I hope someone (else) does a review.
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Leif said 10:03AM on 8-18-2008
What good is a reference tracker that cannot export to bibtex?
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Jim McGowan said 6:37PM on 8-18-2008
Reference Tracker can indeed export to BibTex. Other export file types include RIS, Word, RTF, TXTand HTML
Jim McGowan
Reference Tracker Developer
peej said 2:35AM on 8-19-2008
Why would I use something like this to generate .bib files when I can use the excellent and FREE bibdesk application?
Seriously TUAW, where's the LaTeX/BibTeX love?
Shunnabunich said 10:28AM on 8-18-2008
That's Mal-KIN-ware, folks. ;)
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Henning said 1:00PM on 8-18-2008
Anyone looking for a good reference manager should try BibDesk, which is free and awesome. Combine it with Skim and you're all set for note taking as well.
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puhsitch said 5:21PM on 8-18-2008
I think this app has some good potential, but as it is right now, it doesn't look like it's geared toward more hard-core researchers and higher ed. students.
If the developers could integrate a search of scholarly databases, that would be FANTASTIC. For me, Amazon is useless; PubMed, PsychINFO, or even just Google Scholar would be the awesome. And of course, more exporting options.
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Steve said 10:37PM on 8-21-2008
Check out Papers: http://mekentosj.com/papers/
Neal said 10:37PM on 8-18-2008
With less features, but a better price (free), check out the wonderful (and did I mention free) http://www.ottobib.com/
Feed it a book's ISBN or a list of ISBNs and it creates bibliography entries in 6 different formats.
It makes my life better.
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