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The Right Tool for the Job
Search hundreds of data sources, grab references from web pages, and let Sente keep you up-to-date.
Introduction Search PDFs Organize Sync Bibliographies
For many users, the job of an academic reference manager starts with the task of finding the literature and then staying up-to-date. Sente makes it easy to find the papers and books relevant to your research, and then notifies you whenever new items appear.
"Sente single-handedly converted me to a Mac. No other program keeps you up to date on the literature, organizes your PDFs and other documents, AND functions as your citation manager the way Sente does."
Lynette Reid, Ph.D.
Dalhousie University
Adjustable Update Frequency
You can tell Sente just how frequently to update each search, so hot topics can be updated daily, while other searches may only be updated once a month.
Complex Queries
Sente makes it easy to set-up complex searches, including nested Boolean logic, without requiring you to learn the idiosyncrasies of each data source's search language.

So many data sources...

Sente can search hundreds of libraries and other data sources around the world, including many of the data sources you depend on, such as:
  • Any site that supports the Z39.50 protocol, including most college and university libraries;
  • Any site that supports the SRU protocol, including JSTOR, OAIster and the British Library;
  • The U.S. Library of Congress;
  • PubMed;
  • The Web of Knowledge / Web of Science, from Thomson
VIDEO: Searching
Easy searches and always up-to-date.

Always up-to-date

Quick and easy searches are good, but if the topic is central to your ongoing research, you need to be notified of new publications whenever, and wherever, they appear. Sente makes this easy. Each day, it retrieves new results for your saved searches and flags them for your attention. Don't have time to review them now? No problem, they will be waiting for you later -- even if you are 32,000 feet in the air without a network connection. And, unlike email notification services, you don't need to do anything to place the references in your personal reference library -- they are already there.

Targeted Browsing

As useful as searches are, sometimes just just want to pick references from the web interface at one of your favorite web sites. This is where targeted browsing comes in.
VIDEO: Targeted Browsing
Add references to your library with a single click.
Sente includes support for dozens of the commonly used literature sites on the web. When you open these sites in Sente's embedded web browser, Sente adds target icons to pages containing references. Click on a target icon and the reference is automatically added to your library. No more messing around with downloading and importing files; just click.