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1 MyResearch (Humanities) Module 1 – EndNote Essentials Sharon Rankin Sean Swanick

2 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

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

4  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

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

6  manage all your references, notes and full-text articles in one place EndNote – current version

7  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?

8  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?

9  Content  Two interfaces  WorldCat  Classic Catalogue Library catalogue

10 How much money was spent last year by the Library to license/purchase ejournals & eresources (databases, collections)?  2 million  7 million  13 million Library Collections expenditures in 2013-2014

11 Academic Search Premier

12 Web of Science

13 Scopus – coverage – vendor’s facts & figures

14 Google Scholar - Wikipedia entry

15 EndNote – screen layout

16  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

17  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

18 Information on the Library website http://www.mcgill.ca/library/services/citation/software 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 citations.library@mcgill.ca EndNote Help

19 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?

20 Survey bit.ly/MyResearchMcGill Feedback


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