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MyResearch (Humanities) Module 1 – EndNote Essentials

Learn how to use EndNote to build and organize your library, import references, add full-text articles, and insert references into your research papers. This module also covers other useful features of EndNote.

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MyResearch (Humanities) Module 1 – EndNote Essentials

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  1. MyResearch (Humanities)Module 1 – EndNote Essentials Julie Jones Sharon RankinNatalie Colaiacovo

  2. MyResearch (Humanities): Teaching Team 2013 Sharon Rankin, Liaison Librarian (Music) Julie Jones, Liaison Librarian (Urban Planning, Human Geography, Continuing Education) Natalie Colaiacovco, Graduate Student (School of Information Studies, MLIS candidate)

  3. MyResearch (Humanities)- syllabus • http://www.mcgill.ca/library/find/subjects/humanities/my-research

  4. Session Outline – EndNote Essentials • 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 What’s next in Module 2 and Online Survey

  5. Why use EndNote? • manage all your references, notes and full-text articles in one place

  6. Why use EndNote? • 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 • Search databases using the EndNote and pull the records into your “Library”. • Do online searches in your favourite databases and push/export the relevant references to your “Library”

  7. 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

  8. EndNote Layout

  9. EndNote Essentials Handout • Finding and loading the software • Create your “Library” • Entering references • Typing • Using EXPORT from Google Scholar/Library Catalogue/your databases • Using Import Filters • Finding and adding full-text PDFs • Creating groups • Removing duplicate references • Using Cite While You Write (CWYW) with Word

  10. EndNote for Mac users - Tips • Use Firefox for searching databases (Safari and IE do not work) • Some of the preference are different – for example Preferences are under EndNote • After you have selected a record for export, the pop-up window will appear. • Click on the Choose button • Open the “Choose Helper Application” • Select the EndNote program and click Open

  11. EndNote Exercise 1 Enter this reference into your EndNote Library

  12. Scopus – coverage – vendor’s facts & figures

  13. Google Scholar - Wikipedia entry

  14. Library catalogue • Content • Two interfaces • WorldCat • Classic Catalogue

  15. EndNote Exercise 2 • Choose a database: Scopus, Google Scholar, WorldCat or Classic Catalogue Perform this search: “human rights” AND children Export references to your EndNote Library: Select 5 references and export them

  16. Online Search within EndNote

  17. Which program is right for you? • http://www.mcgill.ca/library/sites/mcgill.ca.library/files/program_comparison_chart_sept2012.pdf

  18. EndNote Help Information on the Library websitehttp://www.mcgill.ca/library/services/citation/software Email a McGill Library EndNote specialist at:citations.library@mcgill.ca

  19. What’s next in Module 2? Module 2: 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.

  20. Feedback Survey bit.ly/MyResearchMcGill

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