The latest version of EndNote is now available for download by all UQ staff and students.

For a detailed guide to new features, see our What’s New in EndNote X2 page. The Smart Groups and Find Full Text feature should be popular with many users.

If you are upgrading from an earlier version of EndNote, there are two issues that you should particularly note:

Folder Locations: Read the information on our What’s New page. When upgrading, you must go to Edit>Preferences>Folder Locations and then click on the EndNote Defaults button to set up the location for the personal folders. If you download or edit any styles, filters or connection files, save them in these personal folders.

Online Search (Connection Files): The EndNote software supplied by the UQ Library includes the X2.0.1 patch. When you open a library, you will be able to see the three mode icons in the top left-hand corner of the library window. We strongly recommend that you select the local mode (middle icon). If you want to do an online search, use the online mode (right icon) and return to local mode when finished. We advise against using the integrated mode (left icon). See the information on our What’s New page.

We now have the ability to search individual Proquest databases using an EndNote connection file, which will import the references straight into your EndNote library.

We have set up this facility for the following databases:

ABI/Inform Global
Academic Research Library
Proquest Education
Proquest Social Sciences

These are all listed on our EndNote Connections page.

You download the same Proquest connection file, regardless of which database you want to search. You also have to follow the link to obtain a username and password from our password server, and when you input those, Proquest will know which database you want to search.

There is no IP authentication, so off-campus users should be able to use these connection files from home with a commercial Internet service provider.

The best search option is probably “Abstract (Word/Phrase)” — type a single word or a single phrase to search the abstracts of the articles.

The references will not import with the full text of the articles, but it will often be possible to locate the full text of the articles from EndNote using WebBridge. The procedure for that is given on this FAQ.

The Library is now able to add our local EndNote filters, styles and connection files to the EndNote Web site.

When you look at filters, styles or the “online search” databases in EndNote Web, you will now see some UQ Favourites at the top of each list. The names of our favourites all begin with the numeral “1″.

We have written a new page on downloading references from databases to EndNote Web, which we hope will explain the position a little better.

There is a problem with our UQ Favourite output styles. At the moment these styles can be used to generate a bibliography in EndNote Web, but they are not working with the Cite While You Write Function in Microsoft Word.

If you are using Cite While You Write in Microsoft Word, use one of the other output styles, listed below the UQ Favourite styles. Our “Harvard 2002″ style is available there as the style called Harvard (Qld).

I recently posted a link to our FAQ on linking from EndNote to the full text of journal articles.

If you download references from Pubmed, see the note at the end of that FAQ, and be sure to download the amended filter and connection file from our EndNote website.

John East