NEW in Version 10.4

Improved MLA citations
Resolve ambiguous citations in a custom format by appending a letter to the year or adding the author's initials/ full name/short title until the citation is unique (the full title will be used if there is no short title). The latter is used in the MLA citation style.

Expanded format options
There is one group of settings for author and editor punctuation in a format (Name Punctuation tab), and the settings apply to all Types. Author and editor names can now have different settings.

Improved format definition window
The window has four sections (tabs) to better distinguish the options. Formatted examples are automatically shown and updated as the format is modified.

Redesign of the boolean online search interface
The boolean search fields and options appear in the main search window, not a drawer, and a number of improvements have been made in usability. Saved Amazon power searches from older versions of Bookends will not work with this version of Bookends and will need to be recreated.

Live feedback showing the groups to which a reference belongs
Hold down the Option key to highlight in yellow the groups (static and smart) to which the selected reference belongs. If more than one reference is selected, groups containing all will be highlighted. The reference or group list must have the focus when the Option key is pressed.

Autocomplete paper using ISI Web of Science
Requires access privilges and ip authentication.

Automatically move attachments to the Trash when a reference is deleted
The confirm deletion dialog has a checkbox "Move attachments to the Trash". Use this carefully, because it is possible to have more than one reference, perhaps in more than one database, attached to the same file. Note that this setting is ignored when you remove duplicates or delete references from the List View without the confirm dialog (that is, with Command-Delete).

Perform boolean NOT live searches
Exclude references containing given words by placing a dash (minus sign) before a word in the live search textbox. For example, "shakespeare -william" will find references containing the word "shakespeare" but not the word "william". The minus sign must precede each word that is to be excluded.

Edit references from a remote location using Bookends Server
You can use a browser on any platform to edit references in databases made available via Bookends Server. The syntax is detailed in the User Guide.

Smart group searches can be restricted to references that are or are not in any static group

References imported into Bookends by syncing with Papers, a Mellel document, or by drag and drop from another Bookends database are highlighted in the destination database

After online search, select references to import that are not in your database
After searching PubMed or Web of Science, right-click on the reference list and tell Bookends to select just the references that are not already in your database (the ones you have will be highlighted in yellow). This is handy if you want to quickly select and import the references you don't already have.

Display names in the list view as surname-only

Use the keyboard shortcut Option-Command-I in Term Lists to insert the selected terms into the corresponding field in the selected reference

Window -> Minimize Window works with any window in the Window menu

When attaching and autocompleting from Google Scholar based on the doi, Bookends will retrieve the most complete information available

Bug fixes
Fixed an error that could arise when finding text in a reference. Fixed a rare error in the Find dialog Spotlight search where nonmatching references were found. Performing a Find from a Term List no longer generates an error. Fixed a bug where an ampersand in an attached file's name might not show up in the Bookends attachment pop-up menu. Word 2004 scans work properly when the insertion point is in a footnote when the scan is initiated (for users of older versions, they must replace the old Bookends Word X Template in Microsoft Office 2004 -> Startup -> Word with the new one). Fixed some rare cases when virtual groups could give incorrect results. Fixed a bug on Intel Macs where colored text settings were sometimes not saved correctly. Fixed an issue where an incomplete and invalid doi could be obtained from an attached pdf.



NEW in Version 10.3.4


Scan OpenOffice 3 Writer documents
Bookends can scan files saved in OpenDocument format (with the extension .odt). Bookends will add the bibliography at the end of the document or at a location of your choosing. If set as your default word processor, Copy Citation will switch to OpenOffice but you will have to paste in the temporary citation yourself, because at this time OpenOffice lacks AppleScript support.

Automatic downloading of pdfs works with more journals
Includes PNAS and Cell Cycle.

Ambiguous citations in scanned Pages documents are shown in context

Improvements in the sort “ignore” function
You can specify that "words" ending in an apostrophe in the first author's name or at the beginning of the title be ignored when sorting bibliographies. This means, for example, that if you were ignoring "L'", "L'enfant" would sort with the "e"s.

Bug fixes
Bug fixes: Importing BibTeX accented characters works with more variations. The direction of the sorting arrow in the "Added" column in the list view is now correct. Fixed a problem where printing references could result in a crash in Leopard. Fixed a bug where adding a new reference with the list view window closed would make Bookends quit. Fixed a problem in which footnotes in a scanned Pages document could have incorrect sytled text offsets.



NEW in Version 10.3.3


Autocomplete Paper
When you attach a pdf, Bookends will search it for a doi. If present, and the paper can be located on PubMed or Google Scholar, Bookends will offer to attach the pdf and then import the reference automatically. If no doi is found, Bookends will offer to attach the pdf to an new reference and then autocomplete it. This option opens a dialog that displays the pdf and provides several fields in which you can enter information from the pdf (author, title, year, etc.). A pop-up action menu in this dialog copies selected text from the attached pdf to the search fields, and in the case of authors or year will attempt to clean up the raw text to a form suitable for submission to the search engines. Bookends will use the information to search PubMed, Google Scholar, or JSTOR, and give you a list of the first 20 references that match. You can refine the search, if necessary, until you find the reference. Select it from the list, click on Import, and it will be downloaded to your database and the attachment associated with it. Note that you can also perform a Refs -> Autocomplete Paper on any reference already in your database that has a pdf or webarchive attachment.

Improvements in locating matching pdfs on the local hard drive

One-click import of online search results
In the online search window the Import button will require one click if only one database is open and you are not reference surfing. Otherwise, the Import button will present a pop-up menu allowing you to select the database and/or whether to download and attach the current pdf/web page.

Assign hypertext links to groups
Drag and drop a group name to a compatible application (like Scrivener, DevonThink, and TextEdit) or use the Edit -> Copy Hypertext Link menu (which lets you copy the link as plain text as well). Clicking on that link the application will take you to the corresponding group in the open Bookends database. When using a hypertext link to find a reference or group in Bookends, the list view will be set to show all references if it's not already.

Improved remove duplicates
The logic for automatic removal has changed slightly. Now if two references have identical based on the match criteria, Bookends will keep the one with more attachments. If the number of attachments are the same, Bookends will keep the one with the longer Notes.

Help -> FAQ… takes you to the Sonny Software FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) web page

Improved format Show Example
In the format definition window, Show Example will use the information in the selected reference if the Types match (the reference Type and the Type selected in the format window). If they don't match, Bookends will use default reference information to create an example.

Bug fixes
Improved conversion of smart groups from pre-10.3.2 databases to the new format. When outputting as BibTeX, en dashes are correctly converted to two hyphens (--). The modification date is now updated when a reference is altered by a Global Change operation. Fixed a problem with direct z39.50 searches failing to return accented characters correctly even when the text encoding was set correctly. Changed the escaped sequences for accented characters exports as BibTeX to match those used when importing BibTeX. Fixed a rare occurrence in which exporting references with a very large field that contained the super- or subscript character could cause a crash.




NEW in Version 10.3.2


Redesigned Find and smart group interfaces and more flexible searches
Smart groups saved by this version of Bookends cannot be read by older versions.

Improved smart group searching of static groups
Smart searches can be restricted to references that do or do not belong to particular static groups.

Full-window integrated browser
In the online search window, select Bookends Browser from the pop-up menu to bring up the built-in browser in the entire window.

JSTOR reference data detectors in the Bookends browser
This means that you can use Bookends browser to navigate to JSTOR if you have ip authentication or username/password access and import references you find into Bookends. The automatic pdf download from the browser still requires ip authentication, but drag and drop import and attaching of pdfs via the proxy icon will work with username/password access.

JavaScript is enabled in Bookends browser
This improves certain interactions on the Web of Science, PubMed, and other sites. It is selectively turned off at sites that are known to be problematic when JavaScript is enabled. If you encounter a problem with JavaScript, please contact us and provide the URL of the affected web page.

Database cache size settings have been moved to the .plist
If you are upgrading from an older version of Bookends, the database cache will be set to 8 MB regardless of what it was previously. If you had changed that setting, you must restore it in Preferences and then relaunch Bookends.

Download pdfs automatically from PLoS Biology
We have worked around an error on the publisher’s servers that prevented this in earlier versions of Bookends.

Bug fixes
Fixed a problem with some complex images in Pages that could cause a crash when scanning. Fixed a Spotlight error that could occur when looking for local pdfs for many files at once. Virtual groups containing the Hits and Attachments groups work properly. Fixed an error that could occur when importing a COinS reference and the doi was not supplied. Fixed a bug that could in some circumstances cause an attachment to be assigned to an apparently random reference instead of a new empty reference.


NEW in Version 10.3.1

Web page reference metadata detectors

When you use Online Search and reference surf to a web site, Bookends will automatically detect the presence of embedded reference metadata. You will be alerted by the appearance of a green icon that, when clicked, will present a list of the references. Check the references you want to import (Bookends will offer to import the assocated pdfs, too, if it can find them). Web sites that embed such reference information include CiteULike (http://www.citeulike.com), Copac (http://copac.ac.uk/), and OCLC's Open WorldCat (http://www.oclc.org/worldcat). These sites are automatically added to your Bookends bookmarks list.

Embed reference metadata in Bookends bibliographies

If enabled in Preferences, Bookends will add COinS (ContextObject in Span) reference information to bibliography files generated as HTML, or bibliographies that are delivered dynamically by Bookends Server. This means that anyone who accesses bibliographies on your web site or Bookends server will be able to see and download the references if they are using a browser that can detect COinS, for example Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/) and the free Zotero plug-in (http://www.zotero.org/).

Automatic pdf download from Web of Science with one click

Check "Download pdf" in the Online Search window and use the Import pop-up menu or drag and drop the reference(s) onto a Bookends database window (access privileges required).

Open a reference's full text or pdf in the Bookends browser

In the Online Search window, double clicking on a reference will open the reference's full-text (if available) in the built-in Bookends browser (reference surfing). If you want to open it in your default browser, hold down the Shift key when double clicking. This works with PubMed, Web of Science, Google Scholar, JSTOR, Amazon, and arXiv.

Use File -> Go To URL to access any web site in the Bookends browser

When the Online Search window is in front, File -> Go To URL will use the Bookends browser to display the web site. Hold down the Shift Key to force the default browser to be used.

Improved importing from Google Scholar

When using Online Search with Google Scholar, Bookends will attempt to locate and import the most complete information Google Scholar offers. If no additional information can be found, Bookends will import the information available on the web page. Note that if you import by drag and drop (rather than with the Import pop-up menu) Bookends will import the information from the web page. The Google Scholar import filter is now obsolete.

The Online Search "download pdf" setting is remembered between launches

Import references from a text file by dropping the file onto the Bookends icon in the dock

Bug fixes

Fixed a bug where the online search window would open when an automated PubMed search was performed. Fixed Amazon.fr searches to ignore accented characters. Em dashes in temporary citations are handled properly during a scan. Improvements in unscanning Word 2008 documents. Fixed several problems with scanning of Pages documents, one which could cause the scan to abort with a error message. Find/replace correctly finds the return character (¬) if it's in the search string.



NEW in Version 10.3

Google Scholar Online Search

Download pdfs from JSTOR with one click

Check "Download pdf" in the Online Search window, then use the Import popup menu or drag and drop the reference(s) onto a Bookends database window (access privileges required).

The Get PDF menu option searches a broader range of sources

If the reference contains a PMID Bookends will search PubMed. If there is a stable JSTOR link in the URL field Bookends will fetch the pdf from JSTOR. If neither are present but there is a an entry in the doi field, Bookends will use that to locate the pdf.

Automatic download of a reference information from Google Scholar when attaching a pdf

When attaching a pdf that contains a doi, Bookends will search PubMed and then Google Scholar, and offer to import the reference information if it is found on either site.

Automatic database synchronization (Auto Sync)

In the Sync -> Configure menu you can tell Bookends to sync your database automatically on database open, database close, or both. Regardless of these settings, you can always perform a manual sync whenever you want.

Improved handling of Ibid.

When Ibid is called for in a footnote, any cited pages following will be suppressed if the previous reference used the same cited pages

You can tell Bookends to create a Subject Bibliography when initiating a document scan

The List View groups pane has a permanent listing named Attachments

This group will show all references that have at least one attachment.

Smart searches can be restricted to references in one or more static groups you specify

DOIs will appear in the Concise View as active hypertext links to the article

Requires access privileges.

Calculate an author's h-index (Hirsch number)

After performing an Online Search of the Web of Science or Google Scholar, you can have Bookends calculate the h-index of the selected references. A discussion of the h-index, and its limitations, can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirsch_number

Copy Citation will work with Nisus Writer Express and Pro on non-English systems

Requires NWE 3 or NWP 1.0.1 or later.

If BibTeX styling is selected for formatting, smart closed quotes will be output as '' (two apostrophes)

Bug fixes

Dragging and dropping Safari proxy icons for links that have "pdf" at the end onto a Bookends database window will result in an offer to attach the pdf. Attaching files using the reference window attach button work again. Remove duplicates no longer makes mistakes when there is very little text to be compared. Fixed a problem with JSTOR where an empty reference would cause Bookends to hang. Fixed several formatting issues with using Unicode "thin spaces" in references. Fixed a bug when searching the local hard drive for pdfs that would bring up the Online Search window if more than one pdf matched. Fixed a problem where the BibTeX enable checkbox in preferences was unresponsive. When attaching a pdf and downloading the source from the Internet, the rename option will be honored. Fixed a bug that could cause the wrong reference window to come to the front when replicating a reference in a group as a book chapter. Modified the EndNote XML import parser so that a journal full title, if provided, will be imported instead of the secondary title. Fixed a bug where text entered in the reference window drawer enlarged view might not be saved.



NEW in Version 10.2.1

Reference surfing

Online Search contains a WebKit-based browser. After searching for references on web-capable sites (such as PubMed, Web of Science, JSTOR, arXiv, and Amazon) you can toggle the reference view from Text to Web. The built-in browser will take you to the reference on the web site, where you can navigate to the full text article or pdf (if available and you have access privileges). You can import the reference information and web pages/pdfs directly into Bookends with a click on the Import button. You can also attach the web pages/pdfs to an existing reference by drag and drop onto a Bookends database window (or save to disk by dropping on the Finder). Right-clicking on the web proxy icon brings up a contextual menu that lets you create a new empty reference and attach a web page/pdf, or attach the web page/pdf to a newly created Internet reference in which the title, URL, and date and year accessed are automatically entered. A URL field in the Online Search window lets you navigate to pages at any site you choose, where you can obtain pdfs or save the web pages. When the Online Search window is in front and the URL field is enabled, the File -> Go To URL menu will use the Online Search browser instead of your default browser. Note: the pdf download/import will not work if the Adobe or Schubert pdf plug-in is installed.

Live web pages/pdfs in the List View

You can copy text from pdfs attached to references, and hypertext links in attched web pages are live. A toggle in the Action pop-up menu lets you display pdfs with WebKit (links active, text selectable) or in the Bookends pdf viewer (links inactive, text not selectable).

Copy selected text from an attached pdf/web page to the reference

If you are using WebKit to display pdfs, select text and use the Action pop-up menu to "Copy selected text to" any field. If the field is authors or editors, Bookends will attempt to parse the names, assuming that they are surname last and separated by commas. Limitations: Bookends will remove non-letters from the names (e.g. superscripted numbers specifying footnotes), but will not remove superscripted letters. Also, pdfs often have spurious characters (often spaces) that you can't see but that are copied to the clipboard. Bookends will not remove these.

Attach a file to a new empty reference

If you have pdfs with no corresponding reference information, you can choose to have Bookends create a new empty reference and attach the pdf to it.

Searching JSTOR works again

This was broken by changes made in the JSTOR gateway

A BibTeX @collection reference will be imported as an Edited Book Type

Improved Change Case

Global Change -> Change Case -> Title Case will uppercase words that begin with punctuation (e.g. quote mark, bracket, etc.).

Color labels can be displayed and edited in the concise view pane

Book images obtained from Amazon will always be the highest quality available

Highlighting of a drag to a static group is much more obvious

Import article numbers from Web of Science

Some journals covered by the Web of Science use article numbers instead of page ranges. These are now displayed in the search window and imported to the Pages field in Bookends (using the AP tag). The doi for such articles, if present, will also be resolved properly.

Press Command-S to save an edited import filter

Don't Change Case can be applied to words containing hyphens

This means that words like X-ray can be added to the Don't Change Case list.

The virtual "issues" field can be used with the binding command in a format

The User16 field for Journal Articles is now used to store the PubMed Central ID number

This field has been renamed PMCID. The PubMed import filter has been modified to import the PubMed field containing the PMC into PMCID. If you have an older version of Bookends and renamed the User16 field for Journal Article, your label will be left intact.

Bug fixes

Fixed several problems with Word 2008, including failure to remove an old bibliography when unscanning, unintended substitution of accented characters that followed a citation, and failure to recognize control characters like % or * or unicode characters immediately after the opening citation punctuation. Invoking the Word 2008 Scan and Unscan AppleScripts works when the cursor is placed in a footnote. Control-Command-1, 2, and 3 now corretly changes the label in the reference window rather than changing the tab selection. The items in an attached Mellel or Pages document bundle will not be listed in the attachment pop-up menu or in the list of subfolders in the attachment dialog. Fixed a bug that prevented Bookends from importing an existing bibligraphy if the references were preceded by numbers. PDFs imported from a browser by drag and drop will be renamed correctly. Fixed a problem in which a temporary citation without a closing citation delimiter (such as a curly bracket) would cause Bookends to abort a Pages scan. Fixed a problem where scanning of some Pages documents could result in truncated citations. Fixed an out of bounds error that could happen when opening a database created with a version of Bookends prior to 10.1.4 and selecting an unused Type of 11 or higher when creating a reference. Fixed a problem where replicating a book as a book chapter would open the wrong reference window if the list view live search box has text in it. Fixed a bug in which two citations containing a year and distinguishing letter would be incorrectly grouped when "Letters for repeated years" was checked in the format. Fixed a bug in Online Search where the filter in the Bookends/Import Filters folder would be used even if there was a filter with the same name in the Custom Import Filters folder. Fixed SRU search for the British Library (broken in the last update by changes made to accomodate JSTOR).



NEW in Version 10.2

Apple Pages '08 compatibility

Bookends can scan Pages '08 files and replace temporary citations with final citations. Use the Biblio -> Scan A Document menu, select a Pages '08 document, and then scan. A new Pages document will be created, and after the scan is completed it will be opened in Pages and the formatted bibliography pasted in (either at the end or or a location you have indicated by entering "" in the document). If there is an AppleScript error during this phase, you can still perform a manual paste to place the bibliography where you want it. If the final citation contains styled text (e.g. a superscripted number or a custom citation as in a footnote), the font will be the default font for the text element. You can change this for one or all elements in the document by using the Pages '08 Styles drawer. Although Bookends can scan Pages documents saved with track changes active, the results may be unpredictable and it is strongly recommended that you turn off track changes and then save the document prior to a scan.

Scan RTF documents saved from Scrivener that have accented characters

The enlarged view in the reference window has a Cancel button

Copy/paste a bibliography honors hanging indents

If a bibliography with a hanging indent was sent to the Bibliography window, the hanging indent will be preserved when you copy and paste it into a word processor.

Find/Replace in Term Lists finds terms with punctuation

Files lacking file type metadata but having the extension .cgi will be recognized as text files when you import

Import to Hits List default behavior has changed

In the Online Search window, if Import to Hits List is checked Bookends will add the imported references to the current hits list. If you want to have Bookends clear the hits list first so that the hits list contains just the more recently imported references, hold down the Option key when clicking on Copy To button or dragging and dropping the references to be imported.

The Nisus Writer Pro/Express "Scan a Doc" macro works on non-English systems

This requires NWP 1.0.1 or NWE 3.0. Prior versions will generate an error.

Shift-Command-O opens attached files when the reference window is in front

A static group's name will temporarily highlight when a reference has been added with Command-#

Bug fixes

Fixed a crash that occurred when formatting a references whose journal name was > 255 characters. Fixed a problem with the incorrect reference being copied when using the Copy Hypertext Link menu with a format. dFixed a rare crash that could occur when some pdfs were attached and checked for the presence of a doi. It is once again possible to undo a paste into an empty reference field. Fixed a rare crash that could occur if an author's name had a comma followed by numbers. Fixed an error message that occurred when editing a reference in the list view while the Notes field was displayed in one column.


NEW in Version 10.1.4

Term List enhancements

There is an action button that contains the following: Insert, Find…, Save…, Replace…, Update, and a boolean setting that tells Bookends what to display when multiple terms are selected (AND/OR). Right-click in the term list to see these options as well. The option "Replace" is the same as performing a Global Change -> Find And Replace on the entire database, but with fewer options. The advantage it offers is convenience if you simply want to correct a misspelling in a term or want to normalize the spelling of a term, such as a journal name.

The minimum widths for the reference and list view windows is smaller

This may useful if you are using a Mac with a small screen, such as an iBook.

Ten more unused reference Types have been added

The total number of Types you can assign is 20.

Spotlight searches in Leopard are case-insensitive

This makes Spotlight searches in Leopard behave as they did in Tiger.

Better handling of "Ibid." in footnotes

If Ibid. appears in a series of references in a footnote, the trailing period will not be removed before the separating comma or semicolon.

Boolean NOT searches are much faster

Phrases can be entered in the "Don't change case" list

Bookends will accept phrases in the list of words whose case should not be changed when using Sentence case or Title Case. This means proper nouns like American Revolutionary War Society can be entered and the case will be preserved.

Search for references edited within a defined interval

In the SQL/Regex search box enter the following

dateModified > datediff( now(), '01/01/1904 00:00:00', 'second' ) - (X * 24 * 60 * 60)

where X is the number of days prior to the present you want to retrieve. For example,

dateModified > datediff( now(), '01/01/1904 00:00:00', 'second' ) - (7 * 24 * 60 * 60)

will find all references edited in the last week. This includes references entered manually, as well, but not references added to the database by importing and never edited. This can be saved as an SQL smart search.

Pressing Command-M in a Term List will add/remove the selected references to/from the hits list

Bug fixes

Fixed a bug that caused incorrect subject bibliography output if a format that didn't sort references was used. Fixed a bug in subject bibliographies where styled text runs could be correctly offset if there were non-ASCII characters in the format. Fixed a problem in which scanning Word 2008 files and not saving citations as hidden text resulted in the bibliography not appearing at the end. Fixed a problem with Word 2008 where some documents would not unscan. Fixed a problem in Bookends Server that would prevent the default.html page from being found. Fixed a crash that could occur if the styled text information for a reference was mangled. When a database is rebuilt, the last modification date of each reference is retained. Consecutive spaces in an custom citation format will be reduced to one space, just as it is for bibliography entries.


NEW in Version 10.1.3

Word 2008 compatibility

A Bookends hierarchical menu under the Word 2008 menu Script icon contains five scripts: Find In Bookends, Go To Bookends, Insert Citation, Scan Document, Unscan Document. They provide the same functionality as the corresonding options in the Tools menu of earlier versions of Word. You can move these scripts out of the Bookends hierarchical menu and/or rename them, and they will still work.

Update to future versions of Bookends automatically using Sparkle

This means that updates will occur automatically and will not require you to move files or folders manually.

Directly search Web of Science

You can search the ISI Web of Science via Online Search (requires access privileges and ip authentication). You can search any Web of Science database edition for which your institution has a license: Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Index Chemicus, and Current Chemical Reactions.

Import PubMed references dragged and dropped from a browser

This was broken in earlier versions by changes made in PubMed.

Column width settings for Online Searches are remembered between launches

Improved algorithm for correctly oriented pdfs that were scanned in

Bug fixes

The unique id is preserved when a reference is exported to a tab-delimited text file and then imported to a new database. The Biblio -> Default Format menu now updates correctly when formats are checked or unchecked in the Formats Manager window. Performing an automated PubMed search no longer generates an error. Fixed a bug where adding/deleting Types in a format would fail. Fixed a problem with MLA bibliographies where a letter would be appended to the year if there were two or more citations from the same author. Fixed a crash that occurred when creating a formatted reference where a field had more than 32K characters. Fixed a crash that occured with using only the Source parser to import references and the reference was followed by a return character.


NEW in Version 10.1.2

Sync databases

Synchronize Bookends databases across a network or the Internet. Sync can be configured to work for individuals who use Bookends in more than one location as well as groups that want to sync personal databases with a master copy. Sync will keep references (additions, deletions, and modifications) and groups up to date. Individual sync options will be shown before they are performed and can be denied on an ad hoc basis. Ancillary files, such as attachments, must be synchronized separately.

Enabled formats and filters are remembered after a Bookends update

The list of formats and filters you have enabled is stored in preferences and won't be reset when you upgrade Bookends.

Replicate As Book Chapter is enabled for Conference Proceedings

Duplicating a reference is faster when the unique id is in a numeric sequence

The date and time of duplication will be used as the date added for duplicated references

Improved show example for formats

If the example drawer in the format window is open, it will automatically update when you switch references in the List View.

More versatile bibliography sorting

You can specify that citations in a group can be sorted or not for both author-date and custom citation formats.

Improved Amazon searches

Bookends will remember the Amazon search category (Author, Title or Keywords, etc.) between launches. Amazon searches for 13 digit ISBNs work.

The ability to sort the physical order of references in the database has been removed

Bug fixes

Fixed a bug that prevented non-pdf images from being displayed in the list view. Updated the JSTOR import filter so that it downloads references properly. Fixed a bug in the info pane where pressing the return key in a field with a term list would enter two returns. Fixed a bug in the format examples where "Journal of Biological Chemistry" would be used for the full title even if a reference was selected. Double-clicking on a Bookends database with the extension .bdb will open it in Bookends regardless of the file type metadata. Retrieving a reference from PubMed when attaching a pdf works in Leopard. The punctuation after the last author that is ouput will be suppressed when using "et al.".


NEW in Version 10.1.1

Perform online searches of SRU-compatible libraries

New import filters have been added for JSTOR, British Library, and COPAC. Simple searches treat spaces like a boolean AND. To look for phrases, enclose them in quote marks. If "boolean search" is selected, the entries in one of the three fields are treated as if they are within quote marks.

Perform online searches of arXiv

arXiv (http://www.arXiv.org) is a premiere open access site for e-prints in physics, mathematics, computer ccience, quantitative biology, and statistics.

Smart attachment folders

You can attach folders to a reference. Bookends will list all the items in the attached folder and you can select any to view, reveal in the Finder, etc. Any files added to the folder in the Finder are automatically made attachments (and if you remove a file from the folder it is no longer treated as an attachment). Attachments in such a folder are one level deep (that is, a subfolder in the attached folder will be shown, but not any files in it). If you add/remove files from an attached folder, the list view will need to be refreshed to see the change (just click on the reference is sufficient for this).

Searches ignore diacritics

For example, searching for "Schütz" will find both "Schütz" and "Schutz". The exception is a Find search by character, in which case searching for "ü" will not find "u". This applies to all new databases you create. You must Rebuild (Keep User Info or not) databases created with prior Bookends versions to have diactric-insensitive searches.

More versatile example display in the Format Manager

Clicking on the Example button will use the information (authors, title, etc.) from the reference window (if open) or the first selected reference in the List View (if open). If neither are open, default example information will be used. The example will update automatically when a different format is selected. Pressing Command-E when the formats manager is in front will toggle the example pane open and closed.

Replicate as Book Chapter works with Book as well as Edited Book

Sending attachments with e-mail works in Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard)

Hypertext links in the display pane in the Online Search window are live

Improved handling of non-Roman characters in Live Search

Improvements in Spotlight accuracy when matching references with local pdfs in Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard)

Bug fixes

Fixed a bug where sorting on the Added column in the List View could cause an SQL error. Fixed a nil object error when editing a reference with the List View closed. Bookends cleans up HTML entities from attachment names when importing XML from EndNote 9. Fixed a bug where the appearance of some pdfs would be incorect on PPC Macs. For the unmatched or ambiguous list after a scan, the type ahead function works even if an author's name begins with a unicode (accented) character. Fixed a bug in subject bibliographies where style runs in the first reference could be offset incorrectly. Edit -> Special Characters now works on Intel Macs. Fixed a bug that caused an error when importing references from Bookends 7.x that had fields with non-Roman characters and styled text.


NEW in Version 10.1

A highly configurable, interactive, and editable concise view

Two views, Summary and All, let you view the fields you want in the List View. These views are "live", meaning that you can click on the fields to edit them, assign ratings, go to linked URLs, and more.

Display up to seven columns in the List View

Redesigned Import Filter and Formats Manager windows

These windows have a unified look, with a list of filters/formats on the left and the settings on the right.

Text in a reference window tab indicated with an asterisk

In the reference window, an asterisk will be appended to the Notes or Keywords tab caption if that field contains text. This allows you to see if the field has information while you are viewing the main tab.

PDF orientation corrected if necessary

The List View display pane will always show a pdf in a readable orientation even if it was scanned in as a vertical image.

PDF viewer will skip damaged pages

It will write a message to the Console telling you which pages it couldn't read.

Improved DOI lookup from PDFs

Bookends works with more pdfs (for example those from PNAS and J Exp Med) to locate the citation information on PubMed when they are attached.

Automatic proxy server configuration

Bookends gets the HTTP proxy server and port information (if any) from System Preferences. If you are using an authenticating server, you still need to enter you user name (id) and password in Bookends Preferences, Internet tab.

Smarter Global Change

When doing a Global Change -> put after, if the word being inserted begins with a return character, the return will be suppressed if the receiving field is empty.

Include the list of static groups a reference belongs to in a formatted reference

Upload to Refbase using either XML or RIS output

Replicate as book chapter is enabled when the List View is in front

Bookends will offer to move format or filter you delete to the Trash

Improved BibTeX escaping of reserved and accented characters

References exported as XML retain full links to attachments

This means that if you import these into EndNote 9 or later the attached files will retain their links.

Bug fixes

Bookends will recognize attachments with the extension ".htm" as html files. Fixed a bug where Find PDF on the local drive would result in a list of possible hits but no pathnames visible. Fixed a bug where a new, not upgraded, Bookends Preference file would list duplicated column options for the List View. Fixed a bug where accented characters in the subject bibliography subject lists were not rendered properly. Fixed a bug where importing styled text from an EndNote 7 XML export file could cause an error on Intel Macs. Fixed a bug where a find/replace restricted to a field in the main tab could also finding matching text in a drawer field. Fixed a bug where the new name of a renamed SQL smart group wasn't shown. Fixed a bug where sorting by date added didn't work. Fixed a rare bug where a global change -> insert for a large number of references could corrupt the database. A cosmetic bug in which the List View fields could be drawn on top of one another after a rebuild was fixed.


NEW in Version 10.0.3


View attachments in a tab in the reference window

A pop-up menu at the bottom of the window lets you switch between multiple attachments. A contextual menu lets you manipulate the attachments.

More versatile display of attached files

Bookends can show the textual contents of attachments of many different file types: .doc (Microsoft Word), Mellel (XML), RTF, RTFD, Nisus Writer, and HTML. The display contains the main body of the text only (no text styles or images, and in the case of Mellel no note streams or footnotes). The Bookends Spotlight search will find text in these attachments if they are in the default attachments folder (or subfolders). Note that to find Mellel file attachments you must have installed the Mellel Spotlight plug-in. PDFs and images can be zoomed up to 300%.

Improved Remove Duplicates

If two duplicates are indistinguishable, the older one (the one with a lower sequential number) will be marked for deletion. The manual verification shows duplicate references side by side. Only fields that have information (in either reference) will be shown, and any fields that differ will be highlighted in red. Field names will be preceded by a clickable symbol. When clicked, a dialog containing that field from both references will allow you to copy/paste or drag and drop text from one to the other, so that you can merge the reference information into one reference and then mark the other for deletion. Navigation arrows let you move amongst duplicate pairs, or you can click on particular references to examine.

Compare references

If more than one reference is selected in the List View, you can use Refs -> Compare References to view the first two selected references side-by-side in a new window. Only fields that have information (in either reference) will be shown. In this window you can move between references using a stepper control or enter the numbers of the references you want to compare. You can mark/unmark the references in this window to add/remove them from the hits list, and assign ratings. Field names will be preceded by a clickable symbol. When clicked, a dialog containing that field from both references will allow you to copy/paste or drag and drop text from one to the other.

Show PubMed references you already have