Hi Regina,
I can assist you with EndNote.
We really don’t “officially” support EndNote on campus. Instead, we encourage students to use RefWorks, to which we pay for a campus-wide license for all students to access.
However, I am both an EndNote and a Refworks user, so I understand EndNote quite well, having used it since version 1.
As for the Web Of Knowledge thing, I don’t recommend using EndNote in this way. Thomson Reuters owns both Web of Knowledge and EndNote, so that is why they are encouraging you to sign up for the online EndNote thing. You can do this if you wish (But I am not recommending it for reasons I will explain later). To see about signing up, go to the Web of Science database (Web of Science is part of Web of Knowledge – confusing, huh?) which can be found in our database listing (http://library.du.edu/site/about/databases.php - click on the letter W).
In my opinion, running EndNote through the Web of Knowledge site doesn’t “buy” you any advantages. Also, this is not the path that DU students take to find the full text of articles. I will show you two ways to get full text, both of which work fine with you EndNote client software you installed on your computer.
1) Summon. You can find Summon on the Databases page: http://library.du.edu/site/about/databases.php - box at top left of page.
When you do a search, you can add items to your “folder” by using the “save this item” feature as illustrated below:
Once you have saved one or more citations, click the “Saved Items” folder at the bottom of the page. Click the EndNote link, and the citations show be automatically imported into EndNote:
There’s a lot more I could say, but hopefully that should get you going.
That’s “way” number 1.
2) Now for the second method: Google Scholar.
http://scholar.google.com/ - Go to Google Scholar and configure U. of Denver as your home institution, and EndNote as your Bibliography Manager under “Scholar Preferences”:
When you do a search in Google Scholar, you will see links on each record for you to import into EndNote. With Scholar you need to do this one at a time, unlike Summon where you can group the citations together.
I hope this is clear. Please let me know if you need further explanation, and I’ll gladly help you out!
Let me say a few things about the scope of what you will find in Summon and Google Scholar:
Summon: Scholarly journal articles, magazine articles, trade journal articles, PhD dissertations, HathiTrust books, newspaper articles, and in a couple week, all Penrose Library books as well. Summon searches more broadly that Google Scholar, but not as deep (i.e., not always searching down into the full text of articles)>
Google Scholar: scope is more narrow (not as broad). Searches only scholarly journal content and some tech reports. Does not search dissertations, magazine articles, newspaper articles, etc. But searches every word of the full text of scholarly articles.
This you need both Summon and Google Scholar together.
I hope this helps.
Chris Brown
Christopher C. Brown
Associate Professor
Reference Technology Integration Librarian / Government Documents Librarian
University of Denver, Penrose Library 2150 E. Evans Ave.
Denver, CO 80208-5200 USA
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Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 11:27 AM
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Subject: [Research-help] Qs about EndNote
I am in the process of setting up EndNote on my computer. I have two questions that I hope the library can help me with.
First, in order to utilize the web-based aspects of the program, I need a "Web of Knowledge" account. Is this something that Penrose supports? If so, how do I set this up from off campus (I am currently studying abroad)?
Second, in order for the program to find full-text of references, it needs the OpenURL path and authentication proxy server's url. Can you provide me with this information?
Any help you can provide would be great.
Thanks,
Regina