EndNote web course

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EndNote Web for Bibliographies
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General Information
 Objectives: learn to use the software to capture and
format references
 Pre-requisites: use of MS Word and a Web Browser
 Duration & Break: 2 hours
 Course Material: workbook
 Delivery Style: self-paced
 Follow-on course: None

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 Please fill in Green Review Form at the end of the course
 Let us know if you need assistance: Please ask questions
General Information

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What is EndNote Web?
A web-browser based database program specifically designed to store
and manipulate references. It is the “lite” version of the desktop computer
EndNote professional, but is also sometimes used as an adjunct to it (for
example as a convenient way to collect references from the web).
References may be used to document any kind of information source. For
example:
Print material: books, journal articles...
Audiovisual: TV, radio, film, podcast...
Music: CD, MPG...
Images: paintings, drawings, photos...
Web pages

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Why is it important to document your
sources?
 Avoid the appearance of plagiarism.
 Enable other people to refer back to them if they want to check
your conclusions, or simply read more about a topic.
 For your own benefit, so you can go back and re-read or check
them, and so that you can keep track of where your ideas came
from.

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Why use software for this?
 Human beings are good at overall analysis and getting "the big
picture"
 Human beings are very bad at applying fiddly layout and
punctuation rules in a consistent manner.
 Computers are mindless, but they will be absolutely consistent if
you set them up with suitable rules.
 By using a bibliography management program you can produce
neat, consistent references without lots of correcting and retyping.

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Other benefits
 EndNote can help you to search for references online.
 Store references with your own notes, links to PDFs, images etc.
 References are searchable, and you can add your own keywords.

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Check with your supervisor!
EndNote Web does not offer as many reference output layouts as the full
version of EndNote and it is not possible to make your own changes to
them.
Most disciplines only require that your references are set out consistently
and contain all the information needed, but some demand complex
layouts which EndNote Web is not capable of reproducing.
ALWAYS produce a small sample and show it to your supervisor,
publisher etc. for approval before doing a large amount of work. If
EndNote Web is not able to produce satisfactory results you may need to
change to the full version.
Don't leave this until the week before you are due to submit your work!

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Be aware
EndNote web is not primarily designed to be the sole reference
management package for post-graduate use and you may find its
limitations make it insufficient for your needs.
In particular, you may find that it cannot cope with formatting very
large (several MB) documents.
If you use EndNote web you make yourself entirely dependent upon
the availability of Thomson Reuters’ servers. If they are unavailable for
some reason (e.g. maintenance or upgrades), you will not be able to
access your data. This means it is VERY IMPORTANT that you don’t
leave any crucial final printout until the last minute.

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This course covers
 Getting references into EndNote Web (searching online or manual
input).
 Using EndNote Web to insert formatted references into a Word
document.