Bookends

Bookends is a full-featured bibliography/reference and information-management system for students and professionals.

• Bookends uses the cloud to sync reference libraries on all the Macs you use. Access the power of Bookends directly from Mellel, Nisus Writer Pro, or MS Word (including Word 2016): Bookends allows you to scan your existing word-processor files and automatically generate finished manuscripts with properly formatted bibliographies. You can also scan Apple Pages '08, '09, and 5, Manuscripts.app, and LibreOffice/OpenOffice 4 files, or RTF files saved from any word processor.
• Bookends allows you to share your references over the Internet with anyone, on any platform. And with Bookends, you can directly search and import references from numerous sources:
  • PubMed
  • Web of Science
  • JSTOR
  • Google Scholar
  • Amazon
  • Library of Congress
  • arXiv
  • and hundreds of other online sources
  Or use a built-in browser to download references with PDF's and/or Web pages. Also, with automatic searches of PubMed, you can discover articles as soon as they're published. Bookends allows for powerful group-based searches, with static, smart, virtual groups, and smart folders as well as tag clouds that make hierarchical searches easy.
• Bookends also offers a robust assortment of file attachment features:
  • Attach any file (such as a PDF) to a reference and view or open it instantly.
  • Automatically rename and organize PDF files on-the-fly.
  • Automatically download and attach the PDF of an article from the Internet if you have access permission.
  • Automatically locate and attach PDF's on your hard drive.
  • Annotate and markup PDFs and have the information instantly accessible in notecards.
  Easily migrate references and attachments from other reference managers to Bookends.
• Sync your library with Bookends for iOS on your iOS devices, so that you have your references and PDF's with you wherever you are.

• Updated to work with Mellel 4 - If Bookends was linked to an earlier version of Mellel you will need to reset this to Mellel 4 in Bookends' preferences
• You'll receive a warning if you are batch-importing too many JSTOR PDFs at once and are temporarily banned as a possible web robot
• Updated JSTOR parsing to deal with changes made by JSTOR
• Edit attachments when performing a Compare References or a manual Remove Duplicates
• Improved URL detection in references retrieved from Google Scholar
• Bug fixes:
• Fixed a bug in manual remove duplicates where Command-clicking could result in the field being moved from the wrong reference
• Saving the contents of the bibliography window is much faster
• Fixed a bug in Autofill From Internet that could result in an SQL error
• Fixed a bug that could cause addition of multiple PDFs from JSTOR at once to be attached to the same reference
• Fixed a cosmetic bug where the Summary view might not update immediately when a reference was selected
• Fixed a bug that could cause an extra square annotation to be added to a PDF when adding a Note
• Fixed a bug that prevented Duplicate Without Attachments from working
• Fixed an error that could be thrown when attachment multiple PDFs at once
• Fixed a bug in unscanning certain superscripted citations where the superscript was not removed
• Fixed a bug in saving the PMIDs of previously found references during an automated search
• Fixed a bug in handling of format names that contain an ampersand
• Fixed a problem that prevented you from retrieving the names in the attachments field via AppleEvents
• Fixed a problem on some systems where setting the default word processor to Mellel 3.x could fail