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Our highest priority is delivering the most comprehensive reference management tool. That's why the important decision is made to discontinue the sale of Reference Manager, effective January 1, 2016, and focus exclusively on the continued enhancement of Endnote, the industry standard reference management solution. Your current Reference Manager License access will not be affected. We will continue to provide all Reference Manager users with customer and technical support until December 31, 2016.
We know that Reference Manager is critical to the researchers’ writing process. We’ve found that switching to EndNote suits the needs of many researchers. If you haven’t had the opportunity to evaluate EndNote, we encourage you to consider the advantages of providing EndNote to your students and researchers so they can find, store, create, and share research.
With the addition of library sharing and unlimited online storage in EndNote, there’s no question as to which Thomson Reuters reference management solution will best meet your needs. Consider the advantages of using EndNote to find, store, create, and share your research. Take a look at the comparison of Reference Manager and EndNote to find out which product will best suit your needs.
- A good place to start is our Reference Manager/EndNote comparison chart
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Reference Manager 12.0.3 update provides Cite While You Write compatibility with Word 2010 (32-bit). Microsoft recommends installing 32-bit Office for both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems.
Single User version
It is recommended that you use the auto-updater in Reference Manager. Close all programs and turn off any background software, such as virus protection software. Within Reference Manager, choose "Updates" from the "Help" menu and follow the on-screen prompts.
Alternately, you can download the update (please note that the .zip file contains the .msp update installer). Follow the steps below to run this installer.
Click on the Download link below. Save the file to your hard drive. Close all other programs and turn off any background software, such as virus protection software.
NOTE: Be sure to disable Web Publisher within Reference Manager before attempting to update.
Double click on the downloaded Zip file to view the contents. Extract the RM1203Update.msp to your desktop. Or directly the RM1203Update.msp and double click on the RM1203Update.msp to automatically install the update.
Concurrent version
Click on the Download link below. Save the file to your hard drive. Close all other programs and turn off any background software, such as virus protection software. You can also use "Start Menu->Programs->Reference Manager 12 Network->Update Reference Manager 12 Network" to install the update.
NOTE: Be sure to disable Web Publisher within Reference Manager before attempting to update.
Download and unzip the RM1203NetUpdate.zip file or download directly the RM1203NetUpdate.msp and run the patch installer.
New Workstation installations will be updated properly.
If you have deployed the workstation already, run the 'InstRM1203W.msi' (available in the installation folder on the server) on any workstations where the program was installed before the update was applied on the server. Note you may need to uninstall the workstation installer before running 'InstRM1203W.msi'.