Sonny Software

Hello:

Lowly college student here who stumbled onto the fact that the Bookends type of software existed. I've puttered around with it but don't really understand much about it. Did an online search and grabbed a empirical study which I have to critique. So I've got this PDF now... how do most of you folks proceed? (new to mac too). Can you mark up these PDF's in Bookends? If not what do people use? How do you take notes? Does anyone find Scrivener useful or do you start on a word processor?

Also, I checked the psyINFO in the filter section, but it doesn't show up in that drop down menu when doing an online search.

Is there any way you can filter out all the places that require a subscription? It seems like I always find the perfect abstract, but when I try to get the whole study it asks for a login or a credit card.

I'm sure that these are silly questions but it's coming on crunch time at school and my brain is fried. I'm dreaming medical terms

Hi,

I'll answer some of these, and perhaps others will chime in with their thoughts:

1. You can't mark them up in Bookends. You can to some extent in Preview and Skim (a freeward app). Bookends will show the markup made in Preview (if you have Bookends set to display pdfs using WebKit, the default). Bookends won't show the markup done in Skim, but if you can have Bookends open the pdf in Skim if you like and read them there.

Open the Import Filter manage and check psycINFO if you want it to be available when importing. There is no direct search using psycINFO (note that the filter name isn't italicized, meaning it's for importing text you've downloaded from psycINFO, presumably with a browser).

Bookends doesn't know beforehand what sites you have access privileges to or not. All medical schools and many universities have contractual arrangements with many publishers, and they use ip authentication to ensure you're covered by that license. So try searching from a university domain and see if you can get to those sites (or use a VPN client from home). Contact your IT people for specific sites you may have access to.

Since you're premed (I gather), note that PubMed Central only carries articles that a free (open) access. There is no direct PubMed Central search in Bookends (they have no web services like PubMed), but you can search in your browser and download and attach pdfs by dragging and dropping the PMC url to the pdf.

Jon
Sonny Software