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Description
Bookends is a comprehensive, budget-friendly bibliography, reference, and information management system designed for both students and professionals, operating on 64-bit architecture. It supports macOS 10.13 and later versions, including Catalina (10.15). With its Unicode compatibility, Bookends allows for the integration of both Roman and non-Roman characters, such as English, French, Japanese, and Hebrew. The interface is highly customizable and interactive, enabling users to manipulate reference information according to their preferences. On the left side, you can view Groups or Term Lists (like Authors and Keywords), while the concise reference display on the right allows you to arrange fields in any sequence, highlight only the most relevant ones, and personalize their labels. Editing or inputting data is just a click away, and you can also showcase attachments like PDFs, text files, and images, or link to live web pages via URLs. Additionally, the notecard feature facilitates entering, editing, and reorganizing your ideas, making it remarkably easy to cite sources in footnotes. This flexibility and user-friendly design make Bookends an invaluable tool for managing bibliographic data effectively.
Description
LumaCite serves as an online citation toolkit and reference manager accessible through web browsers, designed for a diverse audience that includes researchers, academic writers, students, librarians, editors, and research teams. Its cloud-based library enables users to manually input sources or import them from online searches, identifiers, PDFs, and web pages; they can also organize their records using folders, labels, and starred items while searching by title, author, year, or identifier. Users have the capability to edit bibliographic information, detect duplicates, or identify missing metadata, along with exporting selected references as needed. Additionally, specialized web tools facilitate the generation of citations and bibliographies, extraction of references from PDFs and text documents, verification and completion of citation metadata, reformatting of citation styles, and file conversions among formats like BibTeX, RIS, EndNote, and CSL JSON. A Chrome extension is available to streamline the process of capturing references from research websites, while a Google Docs integration allows for easy insertion of citations and automatic bibliography creation during the writing process. Public citation tools can be accessed without the necessity of a library account, although access to the cloud library requires beta approval. This inclusive approach ensures that a wide range of users can benefit from the tools LumaCite offers.
API Access
Has API
No
API Access
Has API
No
Integrations
Google Docs
No
Pricing Details
$39.99 one-time payment
Free Trial
Yes
Free Version
No
Pricing Details
Public citation tools are available without a library account. Cloud library access requires approval-based beta access.
Free Trial
No
Free Version
Yes
Deployment
Web-Based
No
On-Premises
No
iPhone App
Yes
iPad App
Yes
Android App
No
Windows
No
Mac
Yes
Linux
No
Chromebook
No
Deployment
Web-Based
Yes
On-Premises
No
iPhone App
No
iPad App
No
Android App
No
Windows
No
Mac
No
Linux
No
Chromebook
Yes
Customer Support
Business Hours
No
Live Rep (24/7)
No
Online Support
Yes
Customer Support
Business Hours
No
Live Rep (24/7)
No
Online Support
No
Types of Training
Training Docs
Yes
Webinars
No
Live Training (Online)
No
In Person
No
Types of Training
Training Docs
No
Webinars
No
Live Training (Online)
No
In Person
No
Vendor Details
Company Name
Sonny Software
Website
www.sonnysoftware.com/bookends/bookends.html
Vendor Details
Company Name
LumaCite
Country
Canada
Website
www.lumacite.app/
Product Features
Reference Management
Annotations / Notes
No
Bibliography Generation
No
Citation Generation
No
Document / Reference Import
No
Essay Checker
No
Personal Source Library
No
Plagiarism Check
No
Resource Database
No
Synchronization
No
Product Features
Reference Management
Annotations / Notes
No
Bibliography Generation
No
Citation Generation
No
Document / Reference Import
No
Essay Checker
No
Personal Source Library
No
Plagiarism Check
No
Resource Database
No
Synchronization
No
Alternatives
Alternatives
No Alternatives