MyResearch (Humanities)Module 1 – EndNote Essentials

Sharon RankinSean Swanick

Sharon Rankin, Liaison Librarian

(Music Library)

Sean Swanick, Liaison Librarian

(Islamic Studies Library)

Helena Reddington, Graduate Education Assistant

(Doctoral Candidate, Religious Studies)

Endnote assistant & MyResearch seminar coordinator

April Colosimo, Liaison Librarian

(Schulich Library of Science and Engineering)

MyResearch (Humanities): Teaching Team 2014

http://www.mcgill.ca/library/find/subjects/humanities/my-research

MyResearch (Humanities)- syllabus

Building your own library in EndNote Create references for your assignments and research projects Import references from research databases

Organize your library Automatically add full-text or reformat your references Review of other useful features

MS Word Inserting references into your paper as you write Creating a formatted bibliography

Survey – your comments about the course today

Session Outline – EndNote Essentials

http://www.mcgill.ca/library/sites/mcgill.ca.library/files/program_comparison_chart_sept2012.pdf

Which program is right for you?

manage all your references, notes and full-text articles in one place

EndNote – current version

Software that allows you to:

Create a personal “Library” that contains the references that are important to you

Automatically transfer references into your “Library” from library catalogues and databases as you research your topic

Do online searches in your favourite databases and export the relevant references to your “Library”

Why use EndNote?

Software that allows you to: Manually enter references

Add up to ten pages of research notes for each reference

Remove duplicates!

Organize your references into different folders (groups)

EndNote will find the full-text of your references for you!

Create a bibliography, formatted to the style you need

Insert references into your paper as you write

Why use EndNote?

Content

Two interfaces

WorldCat Classic Catalogue

Library catalogue

How much money was spent last year by the Library to license/purchase ejournals & eresources (databases, collections)?

2 million7 million13 million

Library Collections expenditures in 2013-2014

Academic Search Premier

Web of Science

Scopus – coverage – vendor’s facts & figures

Google Scholar - Wikipedia entry

EndNote – screen layout

Getting Started:

Finding and loading the software Creating a “Library”

Entering references

Using EXPORT from Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar & Library Catalogues Creating a new reference – manually – for a journal & for a web page

Importing a Journal Terms List

Abbreviations matched to full names of journals

A Guide to Using EndNote Handout

Working with your Library Finding full-text PDFs Importing PDF articles Creating groups Editing Compressing a Library for email Transferring references to EndNote Online

Using “Cite while you write” with MS Word Creating a bibliography Inserting citations as your write (CWYW) Changing citation style Editing citations Converting citations to plain text (*important!)

EndNote Essentials Handout

Information on the Library website http://www.mcgill.ca/library/services/citation/software

EndNote training – Thomson Reuters – online tutorials & handouts

http://endnote.com/training

Email a McGill Library EndNote specialist at:citations.library@mcgill.ca

EndNote Help

Module 2: Graduate Research Tool Kit

Starting your research: Refine your research interest from a general topic to a specific

question. Learn how to effectively search for information using known sources

and less obvious ones. Discover how to obtain information not available at McGill.

What’s next in Module 2?

Survey

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