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A Question for a New User of EndNotes
Author: Jonathan Moyer    Posted: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:28:25 -0500
Hello All, I have recently been asked to create a large EndNote library for a colleague and ran into a couple of questions that were not easily answered: 1.) Is it possible to search for multiple-documents at once? For example, If I have a reference list that is 500 documents long, is there any way that EndNotes or any other third party software can search through multiple documents and approximate the reference? 2.) I have successfully uploaded book references and most journal references using either the Tools - Connect feature of EndNotes and connecting with the Library of Congress. My journal citations have mostly been exported from journal data bases via my university library. Where would I look for other, more obscure references, like Asian Development Bank publications? 3.) Could someone please inform me as to which data bases I should be connecting to using the Tools - Connect feature of EndNotes? Which data bases are the most useful? I have been using the Library of Congress for any standard book citations. Thanks so much for your help! Jonathan

Re: A Question for a New User of EndNotes
Author: John Fullerton    Posted: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 14:28:00 -0500
WorldCat is a useful database that many libraries have access to. It's like a national library catalog. I found a 2005 technical report from the Asian Development Bank in that database. At my library when I connect to WorldCat from EndNote, I get prompted for a password. I just click OK and the search works, however, I think it will not work if I delete the user id and password prompts from the connection file. It's possible that the connection file works because the system recognizes a university IP address. Have a nice day John Paul Fullerton

Re: A Question for a New User of EndNotes
Author: James Thompson    Posted: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 14:37:41 -0500
On Feb 1, 2007, at 01:30 , endnote-interest-digest wrote: 1.) Is it possible to search for multiple-documents at once? For example, If I have a reference list that is 500 documents long, is there any way that EndNotes or any other third party software can search through multiple documents and approximate the reference? So, you are talking about finding the one reference you are looking for after you have pulled a very large number of references, likely across multiple libraries, in to EndNote, correct? If so, on MacOS X it's very simple: so long as you have enabled Spotlight searching in EndNote, you simply do a Spotlight search with something unique to that reference. In my case that's almost always just a few of the author names, but if this user is looking for something out of the title that should also work. AFAICT the only metadata that gets indexed by EndNote are authors, reference type, year, and title. I'm clueless about MS Windows, so I have no idea if anything comparable is available, either with Vista or 3rd party solutions... Hope that helps... J James (J) Thompson, M.D. /> Research Assistant Professor Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Philadelphia VA Medical Center, Mail Code 151 422 Research Building 21 3900 Woodland Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19104

Re: A Question for a New User of EndNotes
Author: Alex    Posted: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 14:31:50 -0500
On Jan 31, 2007, at 19:28, /> wrote: > [...] Where would I look for other, more obscure references, like > Asian Development Bank publications? [...] Could someone please inform > me as to which data bases I should be connecting to [...] I think you're putting the cart before the horses. The first question should be, "Which are the databases most useful for my work?" That's exactly the kind of question librarians are supposed to answer. Your more experienced colleagues should also be able to help. The second question should be, "What are the most effective search and retrieval strategies for those databases?" Again, your librarian and your more experienced colleagues are best able to answer this. Only then do you get to, "How do I get the retrieved data into EndNote and use it effectively?", which is what listers can help you with. <0x0192>

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