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FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
Carlsbad, CA, USA - November 30, 2004—Today,
Thomson ResearchSoft (www.isiresearchsoft.com), a business of
the Thomson Corporation, announced the immediate availability of
EndNote® 8 for Mac® OS X. EndNote 8 is a major upgrade to the
bibliographic management software used by millions of researchers,
librarians and students worldwide. EndNote is well known for
introducing innovative features including the ability to search
online bibliographic databases, organize references and images, and
create instant bibliographies. EndNote 8 offers Unicode support for
any language, unlimited library size, new reference types and
fields, and Microsoft® Word 2004 compatibility.
“Unicode has been our most frequently requested enhancement,” said
David L. Kochalko, President, Thomson ResearchSoft. “Now Mac
OS X users can organize and cite references in a wide variety of
languages. EndNote 8 demonstrates the ongoing commitment of
ResearchSoft to improve core features that make EndNote an essential
tool for anyone involved with research, writing and publishing
worldwide.”
Unicode Support
EndNote 8 implements support for the Unicode standard, providing
users with a solution for processing and displaying multi-lingual
text. Since Unicode covers all principal languages, with EndNote 8
researchers and students can cite references and create
bibliographies for their papers in the languages of the Americas,
Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and the Pacific Rim.
Expanded Library Capabilities
Now with EndNote 8, users have unlimited storage capacity as well as
additional ways to collect and organize references including:
- Creating EndNote libraries of unlimited size
- Entering long abstracts and notes—50KB or approximately 10 pages of text in each
- Using new reference types and fields—enhanced support for electronic sources.
In response to the increasing variety of electronic resources EndNote 8
provides new reference types including Electronic Book, Electronic
Journal and Online Database, as well as new reference fields such as
Electronic Resource Number and Last Modified Date. Additional Connectivity for EndNote References
EndNote 8 users can move an EndNote library to any handheld device
running Palm® OS 4.0 – 5.0 and can locate references easily with the
new “find reference” function. The latest version provides over
2,200 ways to connect EndNote with bibliographic databases and
publishing styles.
Pricing and Availability
EndNote 8 is designed for Mac OS X
and Windows 2000, XP. The list price of EndNote 8 is $329.95 USD.
Students in North America can purchase EndNote 8 for $109.95 USD
with a valid student I.D. A list of international distributors is
available at www.endnote.com.
Special upgrade prices are available to owners of previous
versions. EndNote 8 is now available from Thomson ResearchSoft,
college and university bookstores, and authorized resellers
worldwide.
About
the Thomson Corporation and Thomson Scientific
The
Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com),
with 2003 revenues from continuing operations of $7.44 billion, is a
global leader in providing integrated information solutions to
business and professional customers. Thomson provides value-added
information, software tools and applications to more than 20 million
users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services,
higher education, reference information, corporate training and
assessment, scientific research and healthcare. With operational
headquarters in Stamford, Conn., Thomson has approximately 38,000
employees and provides services in approximately 130 countries. The
Corporation's common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto
stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).
Thomson scientific information solutions can be found at
www.thomson.com/scientific
and include, ISI Web of Knowledge(SM)—facilitating discovery by
offering seamless navigation to high-quality, multidisciplinary
journal (Web of Science®), patent (Derwent World Patents Index®),
and Web content, evaluation tools, and bibliographic management
products (EndNote®); Thomson Pharma(SM)—an integrated information
solution for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology markets; Delphion®—providing access to full-text patent documents from the
world’s leading patent authorities; Techstreet—offering a wide
variety of engineering codes and standards; BIOSIS Previews®—the
world's most comprehensive reference database for life science
research; and EndNote®, ProCite®, Reference Manager®,
RefViz(TM) and WriteNote(TM)—developing solutions to advance
research, writing and publishing.
Marketing
Contact:
Nancy Matus
ResearchSoft
760.438.5526, ext. 332
E-mail:
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