The evolution of Biblioscape

Biblioscape was first released at the beginning of 1998. For the first 3 major releases, Biblioscape was designed just as a bibliographic tool to generate citations and a bibliography. There were about 10 other bibliographic software products on the market doing nearly the same thing. Most of them were first released in the early 80's DOS era. Biblioscape introduced two new features to bibliographic software - web access and organizing references by folders. Starting from version 4, several new modules were added. The most significant addition is the notes module. Up until version 4, Biblioscape used Borland Database Engine (BDE) to store and access the data. Biblioscape 5 uses a new database engine. Unlike BDE, the new database engine won't let you use different databases as the back-end, but group use on the Local Area Network (LAN) or even over the Internet becomes much easier to set up. Biblioscape 6 changes are mostly in the formatting engine: It brought Biblioscape to the same level as the leading bibliographic software EndNote in the formatting area, so users from the soft sciences fields are now much better served. Biblioscape 7 improvements concentrate on the area of usability. The changes are in all levels from database structure to the user interface. The Categories module is introduced as the new way to organize and classify records from all other modules. In Biblioscape 8, getting references into your database has become very easy with Online Search. Reference full text in PDF or HTML can be viewed inside Biblioscape. Notes visioning support was added. The improved composition module will let you re-use notes easily to write a thesis or book.