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Author: Peter Underwood
Posted: 09/01/2001 19:11:47 GMT
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Tom wrote:
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From: (Thomas L. Mead)
Subject: Journal-name problematics
I'd love some help, tips, perspective on how to help people (I'm a
reference librarian teacher/helper, who does not really USE the program...)
who get into interesting conundrums with inconsistent journal-names. They
type stuff in. They copy & paste from colleagues' databases. They go to
PubMed. They go to our local-mounted web-based implementation of Ovid
Medline and use an importing filter I created, etc.
And thus they get various forms of journal names (basically: abbreviated
and/or full). And then they eventually note this inconsistency and want to
do something about it. . . . . . . . . .
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I assume that someone will jump in with a more detailed answer to your query
but I will try with my incomplete knowledge regarding term lists:
I do recommend that you learn all you can about the journal term list
feature of endnote because it can solve most of your journal name problems
(the other term lists such as author list, keyword list can also be useful
but I find the journal list feature invaluable).
As an example:
If you have a library of references on EndNote and you import the medical
journal term list currently available from EndNote into the library (not the
one shipped with the product - you need to go to the website for the
"medical.txt" file that is 638kb in size - this is the updated version) you
then have a list of some 8900 medical journals in three different versions
that can be switched between at will.
There is a full name version (New England Journal of Medicine) and
abbreviated version (N Engl J Med) and an abbreviated version with periods
(N. Engl. J. Med.). It is very simple to change the style of your reference
output so that whatever version is in the reference itself you will get one
of these three versions to show up in your reference list.
If you have different versions of the same journal name that might exist in
one of your references you simply need to add this version to you journal
term list - an easy thing to do. If you have "NEJM" in one of your
references, you simple add "NEJM" as on of the terms for the journal New
England Journal of Medicine and you can then have the program automatically
use "N Eng J Med" for any reference that has "NEJM" in it (or you could use
the full journal name, or the abbreviated version with periods). I think
you are limited to 4 versions of the journal name but I also think that you
can have multiple journal term lists for the same library so there may be a
way to have unlimited versions of a journals name (somebody on the list help
me here)
Contrary to the opinion in the second section of your email, I would not be
afraid to import the EndNote journal term list to your term list. In fact I
would consider emptying out your journal term list and then importing theirs
as the starting term list and you can add additional terms to it. This also
helps when people are typing in references by hand in that with automatic
term entry turned on you will have less typos and the program will "suggest"
the correct journal name so people won't be tempted to put in incorrect
journal names.
my 2 cents.
Peter
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Peter Underwood, Pharm.D.
Clinical Pharmacist & Lead Medical Writer
Jarosz Regulatory Services, Inc.
1634 W. Wildwood Rd., Whitewater, WI 53190-1512, USA
Phone: 262-473-4255
FAX: 262-473-7155
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