Week Seven, 11th April 2008: EndNote Libraries

Lecture
This week’s lecture was on Endnote. For things such as assignments the most time consuming job is to reference. Now thanks to Endnote this isn’t the case anymore.

Endnote is a database that can be used as a reference manager. It can be use in two ways, as a standalone program (reference manager) or integrated into MS word (bibliography manager)

How Endnote works;
Endnote it a flat-file database system, the content is displayed in chosen fields (columns) i.e. author, etc. It can also be displayed in chosen style (ECU uses APA 5th style).

Endnote is downloadable from the ECU library website. The reasons you should use Endnote is that, it handles a variety of types of references, searchable records of references associated with a specific project, it can also be integrated with Microsoft word, which makes it easier when referencing during an assignment.

Tutorial (Work Shop Seven)
The first activity this week was to read through the online referencing guide and then to list five example of different electronic references.

This is what I came up with;

1. Web page-
   Technical specifications (iPhone). [n.d.] Retrieved November, 2007, from Apple: http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html


2. Aggregated database- (e.g. ProQuest)-
   Borman, W. C., Hanson, M. A., Oppler, S. H., Pulakos, E. D., & White, L. A. (1993). Role of early supervisory experience in supervisor performance. Journal of Applied Psychology, 78, 443-449. Retrieved October 23, 2000, from PsycARTICLES database


3. Email-
   Office of Research and Development. (1995). ARC large grant guidelines. Email December 2, 1995, from t.lampard@cowan.edu.au/Get ARCLG95


4. CD-ROM-
   The Australian Business Index [CD]. (1993). Nedlands, Western Australia: CD-ROM Publishing.


5. eBook-
   Wilkinson, R., & Marmot, M. (Eds.). (2003). Social determinants of health: The solid facts (2nd ed.). Retrieved December 2, 2007, from http://www.euro.who.int/document/e81384.pdf

The second task was to complete the Endnote exercise for Vista. The three references I created are below.

The last task was to complete the “Cite While You Write” exercise. My finished product is also below.

Screenshots

Screenshot of the three references I completed

Screenshot of the completed "Cite While You Write" exercise

Readings
Resource Summary One: ‘Endnote’
The first resource was a guide to endnote for users at ECU. It included such things as how to build an endnote library, making citations and generating a reference list using endnote on MS Word, etc.

Resource Summary Two: ‘Some additional endnote help’
The second resource was a website to help those who don't understand how to use endnote, it as downloadable information for those people.