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Sente is the premier academic reference manager for Mac OS X. Sente's iTunes-like interface makes finding, reviewing, organizing and using the academic literature in your field easier than ever.
Sente (pronounced sen-tay) makes literature searches easier by providing a front-end to hundreds of data sources around the world, including: PubMed, Web of Science, Ovid, many university library catalogs, various Ovid databases (e.g., Books in Print, CAB Abstracts, Current Contents, PsychINFO -- all by subscription) Agricola, the U.S. Library of Congress, and any other literature
Sente (pronounced sen-tay) makes literature searches easier by providing a front-end to hundreds of data sources around the world, including: PubMed, Web of Science, Ovid, many university library catalogs, various Ovid databases (e.g., Books in Print, CAB Abstracts, Current Contents, PsychINFO -- all by subscription) Agricola, the U.S. Library of Congress, and any other literature
What's New
Version 6.5.8: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.6 or later
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| Downloads:31,247 |
| Version Downloads:138 |
| Type:Education : Literature |
| License:Demo |
| Date:08 Feb 2012 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $129.95 |
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Sente is the premier academic reference manager for Mac OS X. Sente's iTunes-like interface makes finding, reviewing, organizing and using the academic literature in your field easier than ever.
Sente (pronounced sen-tay) makes literature searches easier by providing a front-end to hundreds of data sources around the world, including: PubMed, Web of Science, Ovid, many university library catalogs, various Ovid databases (e.g., Books in Print, CAB Abstracts, Current Contents, PsychINFO -- all by subscription) Agricola, the U.S. Library of Congress, and any other literature database that supports Z39.50 or SRU, and MARC or Dublin Core record syntax.
Sente updates the results of your searches each day so that you can easily stay current with new results. This means that you will learn about important new papers as soon as they appear in any of the databases you search. And the results will remain available until you find the time to review them, even if that happens when you are not connected to the Internet.
Sente provides numerous tools to help you keep your reference library organized, including: unlimited custom data fields, unlimited custom keywords, star ratings, custom statuses, and filters that can use any of these criteria to automatically produce custom subsets of your data.
When it is time to write up your own research, Sente takes care of the details of properly formating citations and bibliographies. Sente includes over 100 pre-defined bibliography styles (e.g., Vancouver, APA, Chicago, Science, etc.) as well as an easy-to-use bibliography format editor that lets you modify the supplied formats or create your own.
A fully-functional, 30-day trial version is available here at MacUpdate for download from www.thirdstreetsoftware.com.
Sente (pronounced sen-tay) makes literature searches easier by providing a front-end to hundreds of data sources around the world, including: PubMed, Web of Science, Ovid, many university library catalogs, various Ovid databases (e.g., Books in Print, CAB Abstracts, Current Contents, PsychINFO -- all by subscription) Agricola, the U.S. Library of Congress, and any other literature database that supports Z39.50 or SRU, and MARC or Dublin Core record syntax.
Sente updates the results of your searches each day so that you can easily stay current with new results. This means that you will learn about important new papers as soon as they appear in any of the databases you search. And the results will remain available until you find the time to review them, even if that happens when you are not connected to the Internet.
Sente provides numerous tools to help you keep your reference library organized, including: unlimited custom data fields, unlimited custom keywords, star ratings, custom statuses, and filters that can use any of these criteria to automatically produce custom subsets of your data.
When it is time to write up your own research, Sente takes care of the details of properly formating citations and bibliographies. Sente includes over 100 pre-defined bibliography styles (e.g., Vancouver, APA, Chicago, Science, etc.) as well as an easy-to-use bibliography format editor that lets you modify the supplied formats or create your own.
A fully-functional, 30-day trial version is available here at MacUpdate for download from www.thirdstreetsoftware.com.
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Billcl reviewed on 18 Dec 2011
(For some reason, Macupdate won't let me give it 5 stars for overall rating, only 4.5 stars - but its a 5)
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Goodwill :) reviewed on 24 Oct 2011
Updating incomplete refs:
Bookends has a really nice host of tools to update refs. If you have a ref that got loaded in when it was online only, it's quick and easy to use a Bookends menu command to update the reference. There are a couple of ways of doing this, and it works well. Sente is supposed to do some auto-updating, but it doesn't seem to work nearly as well. I really like this handy feature.
Another thing Sente need to improve is its note-taking feature. It always asks you to specify a location (sentence or paragraph) when you make note. But sometimes we need to make comments/note on the whole paper but not a specific paragraph or sentence.
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Mar6473 reviewed on 17 Jul 2011
Since then, I have been very impressed with the feature set of Sente 6.
Sente also offers a very affordable version for those that have smaller libraries.
The UI of Bookends is quite rough and unpleasant to look at. Sente has a very nice look to it (Endnote looks the worst).
I'm very happy with Sente right now. The developer continues to add fixes and tweaks.
Both Bookends and Sente are very good, but personally I'm going with Sente 6.
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Goodwill :) reviewed on 15 Jun 2011
Updating incomplete refs:
Bookends has a really nice host of tools to update refs. If you have a ref that got loaded in when it was online only, it's quick and easy to use a Bookends menu command to update the reference. There are a couple of ways of doing this, and it works well. Sente is supposed to do some auto-updating, but it doesn't seem to work nearly as well. I really like this handy feature.
Another thing Sente need to improve is its note-taking feature. It always asks you to specify a location (sentence or paragraph) when you make note. But sometimes we need to make comments/note on the whole paper but not a specific paragraph or sentence.
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Updating incomplete refs:
Bookends has a really nice host of tools to update refs. If you have a ref that got loaded in when it was online only, it's quick and easy to use a Bookends menu command to update the reference. There are a couple of ways of doing this, and it works well. Sente is supposed to do some auto-updating, but it doesn't seem to work nearly as well. I really like this handy feature.
Another feature Sente need to improve is its note-taking feature. It always asks you to specify a location (sentence or paragraph) when you make note. But sometimes we need to make comments/note on the whole paper but not a specific paragraph or sentence.
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Mwarner7 reviewed on 01 May 2010
When automatic importing and paper matching does work, there is a good 7-10 second lag for every paper, and this is running on a late 2009 MacPro loaded with ram. After digging into the user forums, it seems that there are serious problems with auto matching that have been unresolved for 4-6 months.
The other major deficiency on the front end of this program is that it does not support EZproxy so I cannot directly import papers from journals while working at my university computer.
Summary: I got so frustrated with trying to get things into this app. that I did not even make it to testing how well it handled scanning and making bibliographies.
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Sente works well, and now has an impressive full working iPad app.
Granted, I would like to see some user interface (it's a web-kit app I believe), and speed improvements. But, don't get me wrong, it's a very good app for those of us who do serious research.
FYI, Mendeley is the real upcoming competitor to Sente, bookends and End Note, especially with it's academic social networking features. Regardless, I have decided to stick with Sente for now.
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Causeypike reviewed on 22 Feb 2010
Bookends and Sente...
Both are excellent programs for managing your pdfs, maintaining a reference library, and generating bibliographies on demand. I've used both very extensively, including current versions and previous versions of Bookends and Sente. Details below...
Stability:
- Both are very stable programs, and don't crash (unlike EndNote, unless X3 has dramatically improved). They play very nicely with loads of word processors and are very reliable.
Searching:
- Sente: it's built-in browser uses webkit, i.e. it's basically Safari. You can do standard web searches from within Sente. I like the 'targeted browsing' feature, which quickly shows you what you and don't have in your library already when you do pubmed search.
- Bookends has a straightforward PubMed/other site searching window that works very well. It doesn't look like a standard browser page, but obviously does the same thing. Refs already in your library are highlighted in yellow in PubMed windows. It is very good at finding and loading pdfs.
Updating incomplete refs:
Bookends has a really nice host of tools to update refs. If you have a ref that got loaded in when it was online only, it's quick and easy to use a Bookends menu command to update the reference. There are a couple of ways of doing this, and it works well. Sente is supposed to do some auto-updating, but it doesn't seem to work nearly as well. I really like this handy feature.
Speed:
On a very large library (7,500 refs), Bookends is noticeably quicker at start-up (about 10 seconds quicker). Searches within the library are faster, and happen live as you type in the Spotlight window in the library. This is more responsive.
Pdfs:
Both allow you to quickly see your attached pdfs within the main window, open them into a standalone reader, etc. Sente supports pdf comments etc.
Custom fields:
Both allow you make and view notes etc very easily.
Sending to colleagues:
Bookends 'email ref' works reliably and attaches any pdfs to your email. Helpful for finding and sending stuff to colleagues.
Technical support:
Both Sente and Bookends offer good technical support, but Bookends is the best. Jon provides tech support, and is incredibly helpful. It's not that Sente is bad in any way, just that Jon and Bookends is superb.
Working with Apple Pages:
Both scan open Pages documents. Sente has a re-scan option that they are cautious about recommending. Haven't tried it myself - I use Pages all the time, but don't rescan a formatted doc, I always go back to the unformatted doc to edit.
Working with Word:
Both support scanning and rescanning with Word. I don't currently use them with Word, but have successfully used Bookends with Word in the past. You don't get the live formatting you see with EndNote cite-while-you-write, but this is no bad thing given the number of times it's caused hangs and crashes in my previous experience.
Import/Export:
I have a large Sente library which doesn't export the attachments absolutely reliably and puts them in the URL field rather than the attachments field. Bookends gets this right, and therefore it's easier to move a library out to EndNote from Bookends. Both import an EndNote library without problems.
User help/ configuration of export filters etc.
Online for Sente, a very thorough manual for Bookends. Formatting controls work fine on both.
OVERALL:
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I used Bookends extensively, then switched to Sente when it was the first to be able to scan open Pages files. Bookends has now been doing this for a while. It's a bit quicker, and plays more nicely with EndNote (at least as things stand now). Reference updating is a bit easier. I slightly prefer the Sente online search (linking to the PubMed webpage), and Sente is very very slightly prettier, but the speed and other features of Bookends win out. Both are excellent, but I'm going to stick with Bookends.
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Sesquipedalian reviewed on 13 Dec 2009
During the time that I used it, they added some nice time-saving features like targeted, one-click importing from online databases. There were a few spots where the interface seemed a little odd, mostly because these particular UI elements looked like they would behave in one way, but would subtly differ from the norm that one expects in Mac applications. Nevertheless, the application itself was fairly pleasant to use. The bibliography format builder (for creating or customizing formats) took a little bit of getting used to, but once I figured out what all the parts did, it was quite powerful.
Unfortunately, Sente does not adequately perform its core function as bibliographic software. To be precise, Sente cannot properly handle one of the key components of bibliographic data: the author's name.
Sente only supports a given name, a surname, and optionally some customized initials (i.e. the initials to use in place of the given name when a particular bibliographic format calls for them, not some extra initials aside from the given name). Sente is simply incapable of handling prefixes (e.g. "von") or suffixes (e.g. "Jr.") in names. So the only thing the user can do is to shove these things into either the given name or the surname. But this results in problems.
For example, let's say I am following the Chicago Manual of Style, and I have to deal with an author named John Smith, Jr. I can try entering his given name as "John" and his surname as "Smith, Jr." But then my bibliography looks like this:
Smith, Jr., John. Some Book. Big City: Some Publisher, 2009.
Alternatively, I can try entering his surname as "Smith" and his given name as "John, Jr." But then my footnote citations look like this:
John, Jr. Smith, Some Book (Big City: Some Publisher, 2009), 65.
Either way, it is wrong. No matter what I do, I have to go back through the generated paper and fix the errors. At first, this might seem like a simple job for Find and Replace to fix, but in practice this is not so simple. It is very easy to end up with leftover bits of punctuation, or with punctuation that has gone missing, or one spot here or there where due to a particular eccentricity of the reference and its situation the Find and Replace function misses an error. Thus, I always end up having to scrutinize all the generated formatting anyway. But more importantly, I have to remember to go over every single source I have used and check to see if there are any prefixes or suffixes in the name so that if necessary I can run Find and Replace. If I forget, then my paper almost certainly will have errors.
I should neither need to remember to clean up after Sente nor need to waste the time it takes to do so. The entire point of bibliographic software is to eliminate these problems for me.
Unfortunately, the developers at Third Street do not seem keen to fix this seemingly small but ultimately time-consuming defect. I initially filed a bug report for this nearly two years ago, occasionally attached follow-up messages to the report, and asked in the support forums as well. On the occasions when any response was forthcoming, it was only ever to say that the issue was on their list of things to improve. After two years, it seems clear that it isn't very high on that list.
As a result, I have had to drop Sente and move on to other software. Some of the others may not have all the shiny features that Sente has, but they get the job done properly. After all, luxury reclining seats and a built-in GPS navigation system are of no use if you need to take your car to the shop every time you try to drive it.
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