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Introduction Searching PDF Management Organization 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

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.

The Temporary Library

Sometimes you want to do a quick search and you do not want to create a standing search. Sente provides you with a library called "Temporary" that is automatically recreated each time you launch Sente. If you create these searches in the Temporary library, you can easily copy any interesting references into your real library and just leave everything else in Temporary. The contents of Temporary will be emptied out the next time you run Sente, so you don't have to worry about deleting unwanted references.