Other features include the ability to export files in XML format, and to move EndNote references to data visualization tools to help users explore research literature visually. In addition, EndNote 7 helps users locate full text faster by connecting to an institution’s online resources with OpenURL links. With over 1,500 content files including output styles, templates, import filters and connection files, EndNote 7 expands the ways to collect data from a wide variety of online resources and to publish manuscripts.

The Cite While You Write feature provides an easy way for users to search for and insert figures into their manuscripts EndNote 7 tracks inserted figures the same way it does references, and automatically builds a figure list for submissions. Users can change the figure placement in the manuscript and then update the figure list in one click.

EndNote 7 has built in Word templates that will guide users through the exacting manuscript requirements of publishers. Completed manuscripts are now submission-ready with all the key elements in addition to EndNote's instantly formatted in-text citations, bibliography, and figure list.

Whether you are a researcher, writer, librarian, information specialist, student, or consumer, who wants to create citations and bibliographies instantly and automatically, EndNote 7 provides a nice solution. This neat program helps you control the organization and output of bibliographies, and is a super tool that greatly aids with the creating and editing of scientific papers, especially the citations and the bibliography of these cited sources.

Built into this fine program are over 1,000 different bibliographical styles that a user can use to format a bibliography, and all are pre-configured according to the many highly specific different journal requirements. In today's research and teaching environment that heavily emphasizes continued publishing of scholarly research, professional journals present an important means by which this publishing responsibility can be accomplished. 

Organizing bibliographies to suit these different scientific journal requirements can become a nightmare, especially for writers who often publish articles in various of these journals. The different formatting styles already built into EndNote, a feature likely to be heavily used in research situations, are alone worth the price of the software. This means a writer can simply select the particular journal's preferred format from among these styles, and the journal's requisite bibliographical arrangement is then organized to suit this specific need. Printing the attached pre-configured bibliography follows the standard Print function in Windows. Frequent updates to this already extensive list of styles are also provided at the EndNote Web site, www.endnote.com.

EndNote also contains numerous connection files that contain all the information necessary for the program to open, search and import references -from a remote database. In addition, many import filters are included that EndNote uses to decipher information that has been downloaded from an online or a CD ROM database. These files are also frequently updated at the EndNote Web site.

Essentially, EndNote is three tools in one: an online search tool, a tool for organizing references, and a tool that allows you to create bibliographies in one step.

EndNote's connection files can be used to seamlessly access remote bibliographic databases (e.g. MEDLINE, PsycINFO, the Library of Congress, or university catalogs). With simple mouse clicks, you can then transfer your results directly into an EndNote database, with no additional importing steps.

Organizing references is also very easy, and EndNote can be considered a personal electronic card catalog to organize references. You can even link references to full-text articles that may be available on the Internet.

Creating bibliographies is then very easy. From within either Word (for Mac and Windows) and WordPerfect (Windows only), you can insert citations to references used in the writing process, and format end-paper bibliographies. Incorporating last-minute changes and automatically updating citations and bibliographies in the paper is as simple as choosing the Format, Bibliography command from the Tools menu in either of these two word processors. You then select from the over 700 bibliography styles already built into the program to format the citations and reference lists in manuscripts, term papers or other published articles.

Super Features

Organize images and files in EndNote 7 Library

Store images or files using new Image and Caption fields

Charts, figures, and equations can be organized with caption and keywords

Access images and create a figure list automatically in Word

Create a figure list

Use updated and new output styles, import filters, and connection files

Print individual references while in Edit field

Copy references to your Palm OS device

Locate citations and figures in Word with Cite While You Write

Watch the bibliography and figure list appear as you insert citations

Use Word templates to create your manuscript

Export references from a traveling library

Enjoy new and updated content files

Search bibliographic databases on the Internet

Build your library instantly by accessing remote databases with EndNote 7

Link references to articles in PDF files or on the Web

Locate and insert EndNote citations without leaving MS Word

Instantly format citations as these are entered

Easily set a custom bibliography layout, including a bibliography title

Add custom notes to citations

Hot link to a URL found in a bibliography

Share a paper, including full reference data in the Traveling Library

Quickly remove field codes to submit your paper to a publisher

Automatically download the latest files from the ISI site

Easily access ISI's Web of Science

Check highlighted text for spell checking

Search supplied multi-language and discipline-specific dictionaries

Search online bibliographic databases and retrieve the references directly into EndNote

Store, manage, and search for bibliographic references in a private reference library

Build lists of cited works automatically

Insert citations into word processing documents and later scan these documents for in-text citations to compile a bibliography in any format

Open over 250 predefined connection files to search Internet libraries

Access remote bibliographic databases, including MEDLINE, Library of Congress, the super ISI Web of Science, and university library catalogs

Search remote bibliographic databases using the EndNote search window

Transfer remote references to your own EndNote library

Create your own connection files (must be Z39.50 compliant)

Create your own databases of references

Store up to 32,000 references per EndNote library

Create an unlimited number of libraries

Link references to full-text articles and other Web material

Use or customize 25 reference types

Build EndNote libraries using the online search tool, by manual entry, or by importing tagged text files from hundreds of online or CD ROM databases

Spell Check references

Search any field easily and perform Boolean searches

Locate citations in MS Word with Cite While Your Write technology

Collaborate easily with others as your traveling library of cited references follows the MS Word document

More than 700 bibliographic styles

Revise your document as many times as needed and let EndNote update the in-text citations and bibliography according to the selected style

Accommodates footnotes, ibid, anonymous works, and other advanced bibliographic details

Key Concepts

Using EndNote's search interface provides a simple way to do basic searches on EndNote libraries and remote databases. The same search window is used for both purposes, and this removes the need to learn a separate program to access online databases. Using EndNote's Import command, you can also import references found within other search engine interfaces.

You connect to a remote database, using the built in connection files. Remember however, that some of these databases require prior payment of a fee, while other databases may be open to public access. A complete listing of free access databases can be found at the EndNote Web site.

When the connection has been established, EndNote opens a Retrieved References window and displays the Search window. EndNote is now ready to search the remote database.

The search request reveals the "hits" that are available in the accessed database, and EndNote gives you the option to retrieve and save these to an EndNote library. You can also refine the search, if the results are too many, or if you need to further specify the references. You can read through the retrieved references, to see which ones you want to keep, and then save the references by transferring them into an EndNote library.

You can also use EndNote to download references from remote databases and to import these downloaded references into an EndNote library. In addition, you can manually create a new reference into an existing EndNote library.

Once you have an EndNote library of references, you can begin to write the paper in the selected word processor. In this writing phase, as you come across a need to cite a reference, you use the features included in the additional Add-Ins features, that EndNote also installs to the machine, in order to place the necessary citation to a reference in an EndNote library right in the document. You can select these citations from within one or more EndNote libraries. 

After completing the paper, adding and printing the bibliography is very easy and also very customizable. In this phase of the writing of the article, the user can then use one of the many existing styles to help, so they can very easily and also very quickly comply with the particular requirements of the journal that will publish their article. This process enables the requisite bibliography to be formatted according to protocol, and in addition, the citations inside the text of the article are also formatted as required by the journal.

Target Customers

Although one could consider loading and using this fine program on a home PC, EndNote is really more suited for a library environment, research institutes, laboratories, or other information publishing and research functions. The focus is on professional writing that would more likely be published in scholarly journals, research papers, theses and dissertations, or grant research reports. Graduate students will be very interested in the many features in this program that will answer most all their citation and bibliography formatting and printing needs.

Comparable Applications

EndNote is one of many similar, highly specialized applications that especially appeal to researchers and writers, including ISI ResearchSoft's own Reference Manager and Pro Cite, SeeCite Software's "Bibliographica," Sonny Software's "Bookends Plus," See Change Corporation's "BookWhere? 2000," Oberon Development, Ltd's "Citation," and Research Software Design's "Papyrus."

EndNote Recommendation

EndNote is absolutely essential for all university libraries, and many of the larger public libraries serving larger markets. Wherever there are an abundance of researchers, writers, students and teachers, there should also be found this excellent resource. Although not overly difficult to learn, use of EndNote will require some time to learn how to use its many built-in features.
 
Prices

$299.95 street list price (Win and Mac) with CD and manual
$239.95 electronic price - no CD - no manual (Win and Mac)
$  99.95 upgrade price (Win and Mac) with CD and manual
$  89.95 electronic upgrade (Win and Mac) - no CD - No manual
 
Contact the company for pricing for multiple licenses and for student/academic pricing.

NOTE: This price includes one of the most thorough user manuals that I've ever seen accompany any software in a very long time. The book is filled with detailed instructions, screen shots, and step-by-step instructions, and also contains an extensive index. In these days of online support, or no help at all with many software applications, due to the increased cost to write and publish these guides, this is an example how good these now so very rare user manuals can be. Kudos to this company for deciding to add this excellent resource to accompany this fine program.

System Configuration Requirements

For Windows:
Pentium or compatible processor
Windows ME/2000/XP
64MB RAM
62MB free hard disk space
CD-ROM drive
Internet connection required to search Internet databases
EndNote files are compatible across Windows and Macintosh platforms (same version).

Handheld Requirements:
Handheld devices manufactured by Palm (from the Zire, m or Tungsten series)
Palm OS 4-5.2
Serial/USB HotSync
For devices with 4MB of RAM or more

EndNote 7 is compatible with the following word processing and text formats:

Cite While You Write feature: Microsoft Word 97, 2000, XP
Add-in feature: Corel WordPerfect 9, 10 (2002), 11 (certification in process)

RTF Document Scan: works with other word processors that can save documents to Rich Text Format, including StarOffice, OpenOffice, FrameMaker and more.

For the Mac:
PowerPC Mac G3 or higher
System OS X (10.1.5, 10.2)
64MB RAM
62MB free hard disk space
CD-ROM drive
Internet connection required to search Internet databases

EndNote files are compatible across Windows and Macintosh platforms. EndNote 5 (different feature set) is included in the package for OS9 systems.

Handheld Requirements:
Handheld devices manufactured by Palm (from the Zire, m or Tungsten series)
Palm OS 4-5.0
Serial/USB HotSync
For devices with 4MB of RAM or more.

Required Update: Microsoft Office v. X, 10.1.2

Recommended Update: Mac OS X update 10.1.5
Mac OS 10.2 update, Service release 10.2.6

Installation and Setup

Installation and setup presented no complications or problems. You would of course need to be sure you installed this on a system that met at least the minimum specifications listed above. There are five major categories of components that are installed with the program, including the program, styles (formats for creating bibliographies), filters (files for importing text files of reference data), connection files (to connect to online reference databases), and word processor add-ins.

EndNote 7 is fully compatible with all libraries from earlier versions of EndNote and EndNote Plus for DOS, Windows and Macintosh. EndNote 7 can use styles created by EndNote versions 2-6, but EndNote 7 styles cannot be used by versions prior to version 4. When opening an older EndNote style, EndNote 7 opens it as a new untitled style which you may save with a new name. The original style remains untouched, so that you may still use it with older EndNote versions.

EndNote for Windows is compatible with Microsoft Word for Windows 97, 2000, XP, and WordPerfect for Windows 2000 and 2002.

For those upgrading to EndNote 7, you should first back up any styles, import filters or connection files you don't want overwritten. If you opt to install the newer version in the folder with the older version, the setup process will remove the older version and any existing Add-Ins. You do not need to uninstall any earlier version of EndNote in order to upgrade to the new version 6, but ISI recommends you first uninstall any prior version before you install version 6.

The uninstall process will remove only files, groups and icons that were installed the last time EndNote was run, and will not delete libraries or any new files you have created. It will also not delete any directories that contain EndNote files you have created.

EndNote is also a network-compatible product, meaning that you can access an EndNote library or an EndNote program installed on a network server. The program can also be used in a mixed platform network environment, and this has been tested on Apple Share, Novell Netware, and Windows NT networks, and pc-specific networks including Windows for Workgroups. The excellent user manual includes an appendix that fully explains these network instructions and requirements.

About Thomson ISI

Thomson ISI is a business of The Thomson Corporation. Headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA with offices worldwide, ISI provides essential, high quality Web-based information to over seven million researchers, information specialists, and administrators in diverse fields.

The Thomson Corporation www.thomson.com, with 2002 revenues of $7.8 billion, is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers. Thomson provides value-added information, software applications and tools to more than 20 million users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, higher education, reference information, corporate training and assessment, scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the Toronto and New York Stock Exchanges (TSX: TOC; NYSE: TOC).

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