Managing bibliographies with Pro‐Cite: Portsmouth Polytechnic Library

Pro‐Cite is a software package for managing personal bibliographic databases from which printed bibliographies are frequently required. The article first considers the kinds of project for which Pro‐Cite is intended, and those for which it is not intended. In the latter category is included the management of large permanent databases to which powerful online access is frequently required. Its strength lies in its specialisation: it provides pre‐defined data structures for various kinds of printed and audio/visual materials and pre‐defined output formats corresponding to a range of standard styles. The package is discussed in detail with sections on Editing, Searching, Printing and Browsing, Indexing, and Sorting. The article also discusses the use of Biblio‐Links. These are reformatting devices which are used to convert downloaded online search results to Pro‐Cite format.