EndNote introduction course 17 April 2012 Tora Kristiansen and Maria Johnsson, LTH Libraries
Dec 27, 2015
Agenda
1.Introduction to reference
management
2.Short demonstration of EndNote
3.Individual exercises in EndNote
4.Questions and summary
Some reasons for reference management
•Manage your sources that you use when you publish
•Store ideas/sources for future use
•Share sources with other colleagues
Some advantages of managing
references electronically:
•You can import links/references from databases,
library catalogues etc
•You can create reference records yourself by hand
•You can tag all links with your own subject terms
•You can easily share links/literature with others
•You can easily find links made by others
•You can link directly to full-text articles, records in the
library catalogues, databases, or web pages
•You can easily create citations and bibliography
Some software tools for reference management
•EndNote – there is a university licence for this tool
•RefWorks - there is a university licence for this tool
•CitULike
•Diigo
•Del.icio.us
•Zotero
•Connotea
For information see web page: http://www.lub.lu.se/en/write-referee/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.
Detailed view of a reference in the database Scopus
Click on ”Export” to export the reference to EndNote
Locate the ”RIS-file”, choose ”Reference Manager (RIS) as import option and click ”Import”
Click on the import icon 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/