Scholar's Aid

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Scholar's Aid
Developed by Scholar's Aid, Inc.
Latest release 4.1 / April 1, 2008
OS Microsoft Windows
Genre Reference management|Bibliography manager
License Proprietary
Website Scholar's Aid homepage

Scholar's Aid is a shareware reference management software package.


Contents

[edit] Structure

Scholar's Aid program package includes a bibliographical data manager called Library, an importing/exporting manager called DataRetriever, and a notes/information manager called Notes.


[edit] Operation

Library manages bibliographical data drawn from a wide range of sources (books, articles, Internet web sites, etc.) and generates the common forms of citations (i.e., footnotes, endnotes, etc.) and bibliographies. The format of the resulting reference can conform to one of the standard styles (e.g., Chicago, APA, etc.) or to a style designed by users to meet their own specific requirements.

Notes manages quotes, notes, web pages, and other information in a hierarchical structure. Each note can be linked to its source in the Library module in such a way that, when a user transfers any text from the note into a word processing program, Notes automatically makes a citation with the text transferred in the open document.

DataRetriever transforms external data such as z39.50 data to Scholar's Aid data and exports Scholar's Aid data as various formats such as XML and plain text.

[edit] Issues

DataRetriever does not work with Windows Vista.


[edit] See also

Comparison of reference management software