Apologies for the cross-posting.
Endnote, the bibliographic reference management package, has a
very nice feature that allows you to search a remote Z39.50-
compatible database and incorporate references into your local
Endnote database. This is very handy for building up a
bibliography. Typically users have a scrawled list of references
with just author name and year and they need to get the complete
reference. Mostly they are using Endnote to connect to PubMed
to do this.
If they have the author's name and initials, plus the year, then this
works very well in most cases. But if they don't know the initial(s)
the search sometimes does something strange. For example,
searching for "Mann" seems to do an automatic truncation,
retrieving "Manning", "Mannervik" etc, but *not* retrieving "Mann"
itself!
Has anyone figured out how to stop this unhelpful truncation?
Frank Norman National Institute for Medical Research
Librarian The Ridgeway, Mill Hill
London NW7 1AA, UK
tel 0208 913 8629 email [log in to unmask]
fax 0208 913 8534 http://www.nimr.mrc.ac.uk/personal/Frank
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