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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL PROGRAMS FOR NOTABENE USERS

For those NotaBene users who --for whatever reason-- want to avoid IBID, or
would like to have something handy on the side, I have written a series of
bibliographical programs, running directly under DOS, that are simple, fast,
and which directly operate on, and produce, pure ascii bibliographies or a
References section for a paper or book. Here is a short description of them.
I'll send them to Itamar, so that he may decide whether they are useful enough
to be included in the NB database (and SIMTEL).

GENERAL: The programs are written to handle NB produced APA-style
 bibliographical items in pure ascii (no formatting included). They avoid IBID
 style bibliographical items, and hence IBID style references "hidden" in your
 ms. They e.g. produce a References section of your paper or book directly
 from your "master" bibliography (in APA style). All programs run under DOS,
 so that you may run them from within NB or independently of it (thus, if you
 quickly want to check a reference, you need not first start NB, call a file,
 etc., to do so). All programs presuppose you have built up a bibliographical
 data-base consisting of plain ascii files BIB.A to BIB.Z in a subdirectory
 \BIB.

PROGRAMS INCLUDED THUS FAR:

B-REFS01: Goes through your file (or list of files in case of a book), and
finds all starred names + years, and makes a list of these references in the
order found in the text, then sorts this file, and finally searches for all
cited works in your master bibliography and produces a reference list. Takes
a few minutes to make a 30 page bibliography of a 300 page book if you have
all references in your central bibliography.

B-SORT101: Given the limitations of space for sorting in NB, this program very
rapidly sorts even very long single files of (thousands of) bibliographical
items, not by ascii, but by the usual rules of sorting bibliographies
(including accented letters, etc.). The only limitation is your available RAM.

B-S0RT201: Same as B-SORT101 but sorts your all files BIB.A to BIB.Z of your
whole master bibliography.

B-ADD01.EXE. Automatically inserts a new list of bibliographical items into
your master bibliography, e.g. a new list of references you have taken from a
data base (such as SSCI, see below) or copied by OCR from an existing
bibliography. Does not add identical items already in the bibliography. Does
in a minute what would cost you hours to do by hand in NB.

B-DOUB01.EXE. Eliminates doubles from your master bibliography. A prompt
asks you whether two (very similar) items are the same or not. Useful to
eliminate new items that are only slightly different (e.g. a second initial of
an author, more or less different punctuation, different publisher, etc.). Lets
you decide which of two (or both) items you want to keep in your bibliography.

B-IBID01.EXE. Makes (simple) IBID data files from your master (APA)
bibliography in case you also want to use IBID. Avoids retyping in IBID format
enormous (ascii) data bases of references. Special purpose IBID categories may
have to be added by hand. Works fine for standard references.

B-WORD01.EXE. Searches through your master bibliography for all items that
have one or more 'words' (or names), by compound boolean selection (AND, OR,
etc.), e.g., (racism OR ethnocentrism OR bias OR ....) AND (discourse OR text
OR language OR...). Produces an NB file with the selection of items made. No
need to update and use Ibid and Orbis (and its huge index files) to do so.
Very handy also in helping students or colleagues who write or come to see you
and who quickly want a bibliography on [say] "Reagan and rhetoric".

B-NAME01.EXE. Immediately produces a screen (screens) --or a file-- with all
items of a specific (first) author in your bibliography. Handy when in DOS
(you can also use the XPL program LOOKBIB.RUN when in NB, see below). Use
B-WORD01 for finding all references if someone may also be second, third, etc.
author.

B-SSCI01.EXE. Transforms (huge) files with items taken from Social Science
Citation Abstracts (SSCI), e.g., last year's contents of all the journals you
are interested in, into APA-style items, which you may then add (with B-ADD01)
to your master bibliography. This allows you to enlarge your personal
bibliography with thousands of items each year without having to retype them.
Your own bibliography soon will be the major data base for searching (in NB or
in DOS) all bibliographical references on any topic you may want to write
about. Presupposes (new) SSCI bibliographical labels in original files, e.g.
Authors:, Source:, etc.

LOOKBIB.RUN: An small XPL program that automatically looks up the references
of the author on which name you have put the cursor in your text. Faster and
more flexible than using IBID (e.g. you can directly change, correct or copy
the references you are looking at because they appear in a regular file
in another window).

For further questions, contact:

Teun A. van Dijk
University of Amsterdam
Program of Discourse Studies
210 Spuistraat
1012 VT Amsterdam,
the Netherlands.
Phone: +31-20-525.3834 (office)
Phone: +31-20-6.27.37.47 (home --after 14 hrs)
FAX:   +31-20-525.3052 (office)
FAX :  +31-20-639.1727 (home)
E-mail: teun@alf.let.uva.nl
For Notabene messages: vandijk@alf.let.uva.nl

Absent: From Oct 7 to November 25.

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