Update: 

Main program 7.0 (2010-06-10, release 7.000.027, 5.1 MB)

Note: 

The file downloaded when you click on the link above is actually a program: GetARef70_UpdateMain.exe.
Make sure that no Microsoft Office application is running and then run the downloaded program to update GetARef (e.g., double-click on the file name in Windows Explorer).

You can safely update from any relase of GetARef 7.0 to the current release of GetARef.

GetARef's Import Routines are updated via another web page

Update information: 

Update older versions: 

The policy of DatAid AB is to fix reported or discovered problems and make any improvements available as quickly as possible whether the modification is relevant to many users or not.
Therefore, rather than to 'accumulate' a number of changes and intermittently publish
a major 'patch' or 'update', the updated program version is made available immediately.
Accordingly, users can safely assume that reported problems will be addressed and fixed quickly.

Bug fix #1: Under some circumstances, GetARef was unable to correctly render Greek characters (Symbol font) when completing documents.

Bug fix #2: With using the Shift-JIS character set (as with the Japanese version of GetARef), GetARef was often unable to correctly retrieve formatting directives from the Edit/Add dialog. 

Adaptation: Due to server changes, GetARef was no longer able to access www.authorinstructions.com and therefore could not supply information on available format files or provide links to author instructions.

Enhancement #1: Improved handling of search expressions.

Enhancement #2: Automatic suppression of index searching

Enhancement #3: Multi-file searching no longer requires indexed files

#1: Improved handling of search expressions.

GetARef is now able to handle search expressions of the type common with many search engines on the Internet, e.g., with Google.

1. with the expression woman hypertension diabetes GetARef previously always looked for the exact phrase; now GetARef by default searches as if the expression entered was woman AND hypertension AND diabetes.

2. to search for specific phrases, include them with parentheses, e.g.,  "find this phrase" "and this phrase" (previously the same result would have required find this phrase AND and this phrase).

3. to exclude certain words or phrases put a hypen (a 'minus sign') immediatately before them, e.g., woman hypertension -diabetes (this is equivablent to woman AND hypertension AND NOT(diabetes)).

#2: Automatic suppression of index searching

Index searchinges can only be performed on whole or part of delimited words. When therefore Use indexed search was checked in the Tag, Get, or Locate dialogs GetARef alwyas failed to find any references if the search expression contained a phrase. Now GetARef instead automatically ignores the request for indexed searching if the search expression doesn't allow it.

#3: Multi-file searching no longer requires indexed files

Multi-file searching could previously only be performed with index searching. This limitation has now been eliminated but if the search expression allows, indexed searching is perform for the sake of speed. Note, however, that if the search expression can be searched using index files, multi-file searching fails for reference files lacking index files. Creating index files is as quick as before, however, so there is no reason not to re-index files regularly (command File|Create index file(s) or on-the-fly while performing Multi-file searching)

Bug fix #1: GetARef didn't always recognize correct ISBN-13 numbers.

Bug fix #2: When working with large reference collection it may useful to take advantage of GetARef's ability to find 'similar' references: Identify a 'proband' reference and let GetARef locate all similar references by the command Search|Find similar references. You'll find that it works surprisingly well. This command requires, however, that a index file exists for the reference file (File|Create index file(s)). In the dialog showing similar references it is possible to tag particular references but before this bug fix, this tagging was sometimes not kept when the dialog was closed.

Enhancement: Improved safety features including automatic creation of a backup file (*_Backup.ref) when a file is compressed to eliminated deleted references ('DELETED').

Enhancement: More ways to define text before and after pseudo-citations.

Bug fix #1: GetARef's Microsoft Word Add-in has been updated to properly paste text when Shift-JIS encoding is used. Before this change, the text '#S' appeared inserted in pasted references and pseudo-citations. 

Bug fix #2: When generating reference lists as text files (ANSI files), no line breaks were inserted to separate references in the generated lists.

Enhancement: Improved handling of Shift-JIS characters.

Bug fix #1: After saving a reference entered in the Add a reference dialog, the reference file was not remapped unless the display order was sorted. Now, the file is remapped and the 'current reference' becomes the last added one.

Bug fix #2: Release 7.000.016 introduced a bug that caused GetARef to incorrectly eliminate the '[' before ISSN numbers added to disambiguate journals names when saving references edited in the Edit/Add a reference dialog.

Enhancement: Improved handling of Shift-JIS characters.

Bug fix: GetARef sometimes confused the default directory of reference and format files.

Bug fix: When physically sorting a reference file, the sorting did not have the expected effect if the sorted and unsorted reference file had the same name and was located on a server (that is, had a server path).

Bug fix: The names of some reference file stored on LAN servers could not be recognized by GetARef.

Bug fix and alert: After saving the content of the Edit dialog GetARef has sporadically without any apparent reason or obvious pattern crashed (with the editing saved). The likely reason for this is that the reference windows sometimes get updated in an unfortunate order, i.e., before all necessary operations of the save procedure have been completed. Extensive testing indicates that this problem now has been resolved but any user that experrience this problems, please report it promptly.

Adjustments: Some journals and publishers offering downloads of citations uses idiosyncratic versions of the RIS and the Endnote format. GetARef's import (and paste) routines have been adjusted to increase the number of variants supported.

Bug fix #1: The automatic string conversion when creating search strings for PubMed did not work properly.

Bug fix #2: While fields stored in the 'comment field' (translated titles, translators and links) could be edited in the Edit dialog, they were not displayed in the ordinary single reference view.

Adjustment: PubMed has changed its display format which made GetARef to display incorrectly some non-English characters during the retrieval and, more importantly, to fail to import references. 

Enhancement: GetARef automatically modifies search strings to accomodate the characters supported by PubMed (when searching for 'Björklund', GetARef automatically replaces it with 'Bjorklund').

Improvement: Significantly improved handling of text with mixed Shift-JIS and Western characters. 

Bug fix #1: Upon returning from the edit dialog or dialog for creating pseudo-citations after double clicking a specific reference in the list view, GetARef did not always return to the previous reference.

Bug fix #2: When working on LAN reference files under some conditions all associated files were not saved.

Bug fix #3: When creating pseudo-citations from LAN reference files the correct reference files was not always used. 

Improvement: Since long, whenever there is a risk that a user may do an unintentional 'drastic' operation on a reference file, e.g., overwriting it with imported references, GetARef creates a backup file. Such backup files are better used exclusively for restoring files but if a backup file now is opened in GetARef, GetARef now provides warnings by means of the online help file. 

Adjustment: Toxline from Medlar has changed its format. When display by Medlar, the format it the same as for Medline records and GetARef can 'paste' records copied to the Windows Clipboard.

Change: When adding a reference using the 'Add a reference dialog', clicking the green 'Save' button saved the references but did not close the dialog (because the user might want to add another similar reference). Now the dialog always closes once the references has been saved. To use an existing reference as a 'template' for a new reference (e.g., chpaters in a book), make it the current references and then use the command Edit|Add with current ref as template.

Bug fix #1: Under some conditions, GetARef unnecessarily included synonyms of complete journal names when saving references in the Edit a reference dialog.

Bug fix #2: When saving unique or common references identified by comparing reference files to open reference files stored on LAN servers, GeARef failed to update the file on the LAN server.

Adjustment: It is possible to 'paste' references in various formats into a GetARef reference file. Some fields of the MEDLINE format caused some extra characters to be included and this has now been corrected and some fields (e.g., the containing the DOI number) was omitted.

Adjustment: It was no longer possible to download references from PubMed due to changes in its communication protocol.

Improvement #1: Markedly improved handling of Shift-JIS characters in all respects (display, editing and handling mixtures of Japanese and Western text).

Improvement #2: Multiple minor adjustements to stream-line the interface.

Bug fix#1: Release 7.000.005 did not install GetARef's Add-in for Word 2003 (although it worked for Word 2007 and earler Word versions).

Bug fix #2: When working on reference files stored on a network, GetARef did not altways automatically update all associated files when the reference file was closed.

Adjustment: Handling new fields in the MEDLAR format of PubMed.

Bugfix: Some valid serial numbers were not accepted by the initialization routnies (GarInit).

Adjustment: Improved handling of Endnote Import Format (REFERBIB) when pasting references.

Adjustment #1: GetARef's add-in for Word (GetARef 7.0 Add-in.wll) has been restored to handle superscript and subscript in the same way as the default in Word (and as in GetARef 6.0 Add.in.wll).

Adjustment #2: Additional improvements for those who need to initialize GetARef installed on a server.

Bugfix: The OK button in the dialog used to select journal names was inactive (it was, however, possible to select a name by double-clicking).

Enhancement #1: Managing GetARef installed on a server has been improved significantly, see Installing GetARef on a server.

Enhancement #2: It is now possible to 'paste' journal references also in ISI format.

Adjustment: The server of www.authorinstructions.com has applied stricter security rules and therefore calls from GetARef to request format files had to be modified.

Bugfix: GetARef did not correctly check for new releases on the GetARef web site.