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Re: Using Endnote to catalogue paper copies of journal articles
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Posted: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 12:20:21 -0500
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Is the numbers vs alphabet choice linked to humanities vs hard
sciences?! I suspect that in my field (literarature) older studies are
not so likely to be made irrelevant by progress in the field. It
therefore makes less sense to me to have the most recently
published/read things on top of the pile, as it were.
My suggestion to Professor Smith can be done as either a major project
(perhaps with an RA or two) or little by little. The process would I
imagine take about the same amount of time as adding sequential numbers
to endnote refs and to papers in your files and drawers.
Why not just reflect your existing organization in endnote?
While consulting articles in one of your files, go to endnote and
complete the indication that you own the copy with the name of the file
(Toltec pottery etc.). . You can use the "change and move fields"
command if you can accurately select all the references stored in the
same file.
It sounds like you know which subject files are stored in which filing
cabinet drawers. It might nonetheless be a good idea to include that
information too: "cab3 dr2 Toltec pottery" or something more intuitive
since the cabinets are apparentle also organized by larger subject
areas.
Now, you can search under the file name, to get a list of articles in
the file, or under an author or title etc. to look up where an item is
stored.
(I have very few "subject files", precisely because in the old days of
paper, you couldn't alias them easily if they belonged in more than one
file. In these exceptional cases, instead of "copy on file" I put
"filed with autobiography" or 'filed under 'other author'".)
Good luck!
Julie Solomon
Romance Languages
Tufts University
On Jan 21, 2005, at 5:47 PM,
wrote:
> Any suggestions for a senior scholar who can't even imagine the task
> numbering my eight filecabinets of articles to coordinate with Endnote?
> I do have an Endnote field that indicates if I have a paper copy (or a
> pdf). My papers are organized by topic in a hierarchical system. Its
> great if I want to browse through a bunch of papers on, say, Toltec
> pottery, since they are in a folder together. But I can waste time
> searching for an individual paper: is it with trade (under economics),
> or with Bronze Age Mediterranean (under regions), or with palaces
> (under
> political organization)?
>
> --
> Dr. Michael E. Smith
> Professor, Department of Anthropology
> University at Albany, SUNY
> Albany, NY 12222
> www.albany.edu/~mesmith
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