EndNote introduction course
17 April 2012
Tora Kristiansen and Maria Johnsson, LTH Libraries
Agenda
1. Introduction to reference management
2. Short demonstration of EndNote
3. Individual exercises in EndNote
4. Questions and summary
Why reference management?
Some reasons for reference management
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Manage your sources that you use when you
publish
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Store ideas/sources for future use
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Share sources with other colleagues
Some advantages of managing references
electronically:
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You can import links/references from databases, library
catalogues etc
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You can create reference records yourself by hand
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You can tag all links with your own subject terms
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You can easily share links/literature with others
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You can easily find links made by others
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You can link directly to full-text articles, records in the
library catalogues, databases, or web pages
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You can easily create citations and bibliography
Some software tools for reference management
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EndNote – there is a university licence for this tool
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RefWorks - there is a university licence for this tool
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CitULike
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Diigo
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Del.icio.us
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Zotero
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Connotea
For information see web page: http://www.lub.lu.se/en/writereferee/managing.html
For more information on reference management, see
following pages:
AWELU (Academic Writing in English at Lund University)
http://awelu.srv.lu.se/
Lund university libraries web page on reference
management http://www.lub.lu.se/en/write-referee.html
Demonstration on EndNote
Now follows some examples of creating and
importing references with EndNote.
Create a reference in EndNote:
Go to ”References” in the top menu
and select ”New reference”
Type your reference details in the empty record
The new reference in the EndNote library
Detailed view of a book
record in Libris
Click on ”cite” to get the
reference of the book
Click here to save the
reference as a file for
EndNote, select ”.RIS” as
file extension
Start EndNote and to go ”File” in top
menu and then select ”Import” > ”File”
Locate the ”RIS-file”,
choose ”Reference
Manager (RIS) as import
option and click ”Import”
View of the imported reference
Detailed view of a reference
in the database Scopus
Click on ”Export” to
export the reference to
EndNote
Choose export format ”RIS format”
Save the export file to desktop
Click on the import icon in EndNote
Locate the ”RIS-file”,
choose ”Reference
Manager (RIS) as import
option and click ”Import”
View the imported reference in EndNote
Find fulltext document (PDF:s) to your EndNote library
There are several ways to get more fulltext documents to your
EndNote Library:
a) Go to EDIT > select Preferences > Find Full Text. Paste the
universities URL into the OpenURL Path window:
http://XU2LA7UD9L.search.serialssolutions.com
b) If you have fulltext document (PDF) on your computer you can
add it to your EndNote Library. Select “File Attachments” field in the
record you want to have it in. In the top menu select “References” >
File Attachments > Attach file… and locate the pdf-file that you
want to attach.
c) You can also import full text articles that you have on your computer
into the Endnote Library.
If there is a DOI number in the document, then EndNote automatically
picks up the information from the article. Otherwise you can fill in the info
(author, title…) manually from the article, or choose the way that
describes in example b.
Select ”File” in the top
menu, then ”Import”
>”File”, locate the file,
choose import option
”PDF”
It is possible to make annotations and highlight
texts in full text documents in your EndNote library
Click here to view the
fulltext in EndNote
Click here
to make
highlights
of the text
Learn more about EndNote? See the
online training tutorials on the following
website:
http://www.endnote.com/training/
See following video on EndNote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5Kn8l2rgqk