An EndNote Connection File for BIOSIS (UCSF Users)

A short note to remind UCSF users (including myself!) that if you frequently use the BIOSIS Previews database you can connect directly to the database from within EndNote using the BIOSIS (TS) connection file. (TS=Thompson Scientific).

Select it from Edit/Connection Files/Open Connection Manager:

EndNote X3 Coming Soon!

It's that time of the year again (i.e., June) when we have to deal with the release of yet another new EndNote version. This time it's version X3. I found the announcement today while I was searching for something else on the EndNote.com website. I don't know when it'll be officially released but here's a head start.

Introducing EndNote X3

New Library Modes in EndNote X2.0.1/X2.0.2

X2.0.1/X2.0.2: EndNote library modes


New EndNote library modes enable you to choose the way you like to work.

Integrated: (Left icon) all groups appear in the Groups Pane, including the Online Search groups. During an online search results are downloaded directly into the user's library and added to the All References group (i.e. the complete EndNote library).

Local: (Middle icon) displays only those groups containing references found in the user's library. This includes Custom, Smart, and ENWeb groups.

Online: (Right icon) displays only the Online Search groups, in addition to the Online References and Online Trash auto-groups. All the references found in these groups are located in a separate temporary database, but displayed in the normal library window. In Online mode, users can search and download references from remote databases without affecting their own library. To copy any required references to their permanent library you must select those references and use the References>Copy References To command.

Click here to download the EndNote update X2.0.1 for Mac OS X and X2.0.2 for Windows.

RefWorks on Facebook and Twitter

The RefWorks folks have now made it easier to get help and communicate with other RefWorks users by launching Facebook and Twitter sites:


Twitter
http://www.twitter.com/refworks

Facebook Fan Page
http://www.facebook.com/pages/RefWorks/83467832121?ref=mf

Facebook Group
Search for "Got RefWorks"

RefWorks is Now Accessible From Your Mobile Phone.

RefWorks has announced the release of RefMobile, a new product allowing registered users to access and use their RefWorks account from a Net-enabled cell phone, smart phone or PDA. All that's needed is a groupcode and a RefWorks user name and password. Features of RefMobile include the ability to view references in a RefWorks account, search within RefWorks, add a note to a reference and add new references using a "smart add" option.

The RefMobile interface gives users immediate access to the most commonly used RefWorks functions, including searching their entire RefWorks databases, viewing references by folders, adding and removing references from folders, creating new folders, and adding comments to Notes fields. Users can also efficiently import new references to their RefWorks account using the new SmartAdd feature.

For more information see the RefMobile press release and the Working with RefMobile page.

EndNote & Mac "Pages" Word Processor Software

EndNote Mac users thinking of investing in Apple's iWorks "productivity" suite of applications should note that EndNote X2 will now integrate with Pages, Apple's word processor and page layout application. You can find out more about Pages here. Note however that it runs on Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and 10.5 (Leopard) only.

OpenOffice and RefWorks

For those of you who aren't familiar with OpenOffice:

"OpenOffice is ... open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages. It can be downloaded and used completely free of charge for any purpose." OpenOffice.org

The Write-N-Cite utility produced by RefWorks to generate bibliographies and format citations in papers only works in Microsoft Word. To use RefWorks to handle bibliographies and citations in OpenOffice, you use the One Line/Cite alternative method for formatting citations.

MIT Libraries has detailed instructions using RefWorks with OpenOffice.