Site License

Proposal for a site license for UGA for Endnote, co-sponsored by UGA Libraries and UGA Graduate School, was awarded by the CAIT review committee. Funded by a "slice" of Student Technology Fee, there's a new competitive segment for UGA units without enrollments on which to base distribution..

EBSCOHost

Good news -- EBSCO is gradually cleaning up the problems with Direct Export in their numerous databases. A few databases such as PsycINFO, Econlit, and CINAHL Nursing Literature can even be recommended without caveat. I've incorporated the updates in Instructions and also a special page on Export problems in EBSCO and NISC databases.

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Neat way to return to your complete library from a subset (without collapsing the whole library and having to reopen): In Endnote 6 and earlier, in subset view, press Ctrl-H (for Home) and in Endnote 7, press Ctrl-M (for Main) and voila, you're folded back! Do not click the x in upper right to close the subset window which will

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Endnote 7 works with Windows 98 and NT4 per announcement:

Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 11:04:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Endnote List Moderator
Subject: EndNote 7 and Windows 98 / NT4

Many EndNote users have asked whether or not EndNote 7 is compatible with Windows 98SE and NT4. We have tested EndNote 7 on Windows 98SE and WindowsNT4 (Service Pack 6) and found no significant operating system compatibility issues. However, one feature in EndNote 7 does not function properly with these operating systems. Windows 98SE and NT4 customers will be unable to use the Palm synchronization conduit that is bundled with EndNote 7.

We do not recommend that customers who are interested in the Palm application purchase EndNote 7 unless they upgrade to Windows 2000 or XP.

All other features of EndNote 7 function with both Windows 98SE and NT If you purchase EndNote for your Windows 98SE or NT4 machine and encounter technical difficulties, contact ISI ResearchSoft Technical Support for assistance ( http://www.endnote.com/support/entechform.asp). However, please note that as Windows 98SE and NT4 are not certified for use with EndNote 7, hot fixes or patches will not be issued. Windows NT4 is no longer supported by Microsoft, and Windows 98/98SE will pass into the non-supported phase of the product life cycle on January 16, 2004. We recognize, however, that many customers still have these systems installed on their computers and wish to upgrade to EndNote 7. For these customers, ISI ResearchSoft will support EndNote 7 as dictated in these guidelines.

Thank you for using EndNote!

Sincerely,
The EndNote Product Team

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A graduate student noted that Book reference types downloaded from a Connection (say from UGA Library, Library of Congress, or another library) have an extra space preceding a colon in the Book Title. This errant space is a holdover from library practice, I'm sorry to say, and is not acceptable in most styles.

To delete this space with a global edit (when you have only Books displaying in a subset), you can do the following (this is not to be used when journal articles, etc.are in the subset)

• Connect, import book references into library but before closing the library References/Show Selected (which are still highlighted as the newest records integrated into the library..remember books will be highlighted and interfiled directly into your library, whereas journal articles, etc. will always be overlaid on top, such as 55 our of 1230 references)
• In book subset, click References/Change Text field (not the Move Text field)
• a. choose IN: Title and
• b. in first box Search for (space):(space)
• c. in the next box Change the text to (nospace):(space)
• **Don't type in the actual words (nospace) or (space), just hit the spacebar as appropriate..**
• Click Change and it will count the number of occurences and ask if you want it/them all changed, say OK and voilà, they're all done!

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British Library Connection files available per Endnote listserv announcement.

John East at the Univ. of Queensland Library has created two improved Endnote connections "specifically configured to search two of the most important British Library catalogues." His comments:

1. Humanities Reference Collection Pre-1975
This is the digitised version of the multi-volume British Museum "General catalogue of printed books". Unfortunately the digitisation was a quick-and-dirty job, so searching is sometimes problematic. I think the worst feature is that all the headings for corporate bodies were truncated to the first element, so there are many meaningless corporate headings like "England" or "London"

2. Humanities Reference Collection Post-1975
This continues the previous catalogue. It contains records created since the library automated its cataloguing procedures. Searching is quite straightforward.

Download the British Library connections from Univ. of Queensland Library.

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Here's a strategy to bring in full-text from a database like Academic Search Premier efficiently, although it is a multi-step process:

You could search (Basic search) for HIV testing AND teens and Limit your results to full-text (you could also limit your results to Scholarly reviewed journals, but there might be some advantage to *not* checking that limit if you wanted to see how the topic was being adddressed in the popular newsstand magazines.)

I got 24 matches in ASP to search: HIV saliva, bullet All words and check full-text.

I clicked the .pdf of each reference one at a time to view the article briefly, then I closed it and went to the next one. As I opened each, the article was added to my C:/Temp folder by a numeric string before.pdf file format. Then when I'd finished opening all I can go into My Computer, sort the files by Modified by date with more recent topping the list. Then I can highlight all the articles "viewed" today and cut and paste them into a folder called My articles. When the time is available, I can go in and change the file name of each to authorlastnameyear.pdf format. And voilà, that is an easy way to get the full text into my computer.

In my ASP search after I've added all the files to the folder, I can follow the instructions to save those references to Endnote. And then I can Link each record to its pdf on my C:drive..

In another search, HIV test* AND (teen* OR adolescen*), I got 18 matches when I limited results to only those with full-text.

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Beware the Direct Export function in EBSCO databases such as PsycINFO, AGRICOLA, MLA Bibliography, CINAHL, etc.

The records look complete, but in fact there is no punctuation between co-authors...therefore NO Endnote Style (including APA5, numbered, Chicago, Turabian, etc.) can style the authors string in the citation correctly. If you didn't notice this when you direct export the records, you can fix each record by manually inserting a carriage return or a comma after each authors' first name or middle initial, as in
lastname, firstname, middleinitial

I wrote EBSCO in August and Endnote tech support in September but to date the problem hasn't been fixed.

For a topical search with many matches, it is more efficient to Save as a .txt file to your desktop and then use one of the filters I've written to import them into Endnote.

You will *have* to direct export CINAHL records and fix the co-authors as I can't make a filter that will bring in the book records correctly. Sorry!

More troublesome specifics are available here.

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Export citations is now available from the wonderfully rich full-text resource JSTOR whose contents date earlier than most electronic databases.

The Export process in JSTOR is like a Save file and import process than the typical Export direct from database into Endnote.

Select the discipline(s) of journals you want to Search. Search the full-text (default) for your terms Note: Only 10% of JSTOR records have abstract/keywords...so be sure to leave your topical search at full-text.

AND for this reason, I *strongly* recommend that as you add JSTOR records to your Endnote library you take the time to add keywords manually. Otherwise, in a couple of years, those JSTOR records will *only* be accessible in your library if you remember to search for an author name or a word in the title! And the JSTOR records are so unique and go back so far that you'll want to maintain access!

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ProQuest, producers of ABI-Inform and Research Library databases, has finally added co-authors names, keywords, abstracts, and end pages to the data shipped in Export Citation format!!

The JSTOR and ProQuest news has made me giddy with excitement for Endnoters, as these were real needs for Endnote-database compatibility in these important databases!

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PAWS, the UGA wireless network, will allow you to access the internet via your laptop for GALILEO database searching and then Export into Endnote (if the database allows the direct Export). You will have to log in as a remote user and type in current GALILEO password as the wireless network has a different IP range than the rest of campus.

Also, the Main and Science Libraries' as well as the Student Learning Center will also, after a little tweaking by Systems folks, accommodate Endnote Connections on the wireless!