BioBase is a bibliographic database for the various flavors of Windows. It allows you to enter the information on your references and then use that information to produce a bibliography/citation list in the format you specify. Currently, BioBase supports six main citation types: Journal Articles, Books, Articles/Chapters in Books, Theses/Dissertations, Meeting Abstracts, and Web Pages. Each of these citation types has several fields in common (Author, Year of publication, Keywords etc.) as well as some that are specific to that citation type. BioBase also allows you to import your citations in several different formats, including comma-delimited text and some formats used by online article databases or CD-ROMs (e.g. Silver Platter, MedLine etc.). In addition, you can specify an import format that coincides with an online database that isn't directly supported by BioBase.
The program can be customized to produce a bibliography that conforms to almost any format, and can make bibliographies in text format or RTF format or HTML. RTF and HTML formatted bibliographies can contain text formatting such as bold and italic text. The RTF format can be read by most Windows word processors and some Mac word processors as well, while the HTML format can be read by many newer word processors (as well as web browsers). The bibliography format is very user-customizable, and different formats can be saved so that you do not have to repeatedly make changes to produce your output in different formats.
The program can search through your data files in several different ways, allowing you to find specific citations quickly and easily. Searches can use "AND" or "OR" logic and you can have the program automatically perform some actions on the citations that match your search criteria, such as marking them for adding to a bibliography or deleting them from the data file.
Note: A version for Windows 3.1x also available.
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