ProCite, a commercial reference management software program, was designed in the early 1980s by Victor Rosenberg, associate professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the

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. ProCite was published in 1983 by Personal Bibliographic Software of Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 1996, ProCite was purchased by the

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, a division of

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discontinued sales and support of Procite in May 2013. Since 2013, ProCite can be migrated to

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. ProCite versions 1.x and 2.x ran on computers using the

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and

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operating systems. In 1987, ''

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'' published a review of the DOS version of ProCite, along with four other reference manager programs. ProCite versions 3.x-5.x ran on

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. Version 3.0 for Windows was released in 1995.

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versions were also published. ProCite 3.1 and later versions included a Z39.50

client Client(s) or The Client may refer to: * Client (business) * Client (computing), hardware or software that accesses a remote service on another computer * Customer or client, a recipient of goods or services in return for monetary or other valuable ...

for searching and downloading records from

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s and other

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s providing a Z39.50

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. ProCite was popular among librarians because the program had features designed for the production of scholar bibliographies. Archives of the former ProCite discussion list, 1995–2008, were available at the Adept Science website in April 2014.

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ProCite discussion list archives.

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