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CiteSmart 2.0.6 is out with plenty of cool new features:

• CiteClick and RefClick are now available at our partners’ sites Connotea and Bibsonomy
• More Content integrated : Google Books, PubMed Central and Ovid SP
• A new FireFox and Flock extension
• A new CiteSmart add-in for Word 2007
• Automatic PDF download
• New GUI more flexible and usable
• CiteScriber: a new package to create nice HTML pages of one’s library (still under construction, but currently functional)

Go to MireSoft’s download page for more.

After its partnership with NPG’s Connotea for word processor integration, MireSoft is proud to announce a partnership with the BibSonomy team - the KDE Group lead by Dr Andrea Hotho - at the University of Kassel (Germany).

This will provide BibSonomy’s user with the possibility to use their shared references into their article in progress, straight up from the BibSonomy website, using CiteSmart.

MireSoft is proud to announce a partnership with the Nature Publishing Group (NPG) in which MireSoft’s CiteSmart integration technology will allow NPG’s Connotea users to cite references from Connotea website directly into their word documents.

This partnership demonstrate the versatility of CiteSmart that will add an interesting functional layer to Connotea. It is the intent of MireSoft to sustain this partnership and provide a tighter integration between Connotea and CiteSmart. More here.

Plenty of cool features are coming (thanks to users’ feedback and suggestions):

• FireFox extension for CiteSmart [CS 1.3.2 ; in testing phase]
• Library merging (users, labels and references) [CS 1.3.0]
• Quick and temporary tag of references [CS 2.0, not started]
• Adding PMC numbers to the bibliographic index [CS 1.3.0]
• Automatic link to free full text articles and automatic link/download of PDF files [CS 2.0; still being developed]
• CiteScriber: Advanced HTML formatting and export of libraries for professional looking web versions of your libraries [CS 2.0 and / or Standalone product; still being developed]
• CiteClick and RefClick integrated with Connotea [CS 2.x; done], BibSonomy [CS 2.0; under consideration], OvidSp [CS 1.x; done], Google Books [CS 2.x, done] and Amazon [CS 2.x])

The ETA for CS 2.0 is late 2008/early 2009. A beta (and likely incomplete version will be released by years’ end).
Want something and don’t see it? You are more than welcome to send your suggestions to support@miresoft.com. Thank you.

In response to the new National Institute of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy requirement that any researcher, scientist, company submitting a proposal or a report to the NIH must include the PubMed Central (PMC) of cited references. Changes have been implemented and tested and will be released in version 1.3.0.
CiteSmart users won’t have to do anything (unlike with other programs), except get the latest version of CiteSmart. We have created a NIH style for grant and report writing. Use it (or create your own), make sure you are online when creating the bibliographic index (as PMC number - also called PMCID - resolution happens in real-time at the time of creation of the bibliographic index).
CiteSmart goes even further: in your word document: the PMCID (or PMID if a reference is in PubMed but not in PMC), will be linked to the online record. When one mouses over the link, the last sentences of the abstract are displayed in your word document. We are preparing a video. Stay tuned.

What is PubMed? what is PMC? why I am concerned?

PubMed is the online repository of the NIH’s National Library of Medicine (NLM), that all scientists in biology and in other fields use. PMC is a repository of free full text articles (that are also indexed in PubMed). These articles are free as authors are usually charged to have their article publicly available and most of the time retain the copyrights of their articles. This is a requirement for any NIH sponsored research as knowledge gained from publicly funded research, should also be made public.
You are concerned only if:

• You are in the United States of America
• Your research is funded by the NIH and/or
• You intend to apply to various NIH grants

Well it took time. Finally, MireSoft has created a blog where news and information regarding CiteSmart and other stuff will be regularly posted.

The previous “news & lab” page content has been transferred to this blog.

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