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EndNote

The WA Health libraries have a whole of WA Health licence for EndNote for work or home installation.

  • EndNote 21 is the current version installed on WA Health computers
  • To have EndNote installed or updated on a work computer (except for FSH) please log a job with HSS [Intranet link only] or with the Help Desk on 13 44 77.   
  • EndNote 21 is now available to download to your personal devices - please see EndNote@Home for more information.

Please contact Technical Support for help with conversion or backwards compatibility issues.

Why use EndNote?

Using EndNote is a great way to manage your references. The software will help you to keep track of your references and use them in your research and publications.

  • When you are searching Library databases you will be able to export your results to EndNote.
  • PDF copies of articles (if they have associated metadata), can be imported into EndNote and used to complete the reference details automatically.
  • You can harvest PDFs to go with the references in your library using the 'Find Full Text' function.  You need to change your preference settings for this to work - see Setting EndNote Preferences section below.
  • Once you have created your EndNote library you will be able to insert the references into your Word documents (using the Cite While You Write feature).  You can create in-text references and a bibliography that can be formatted in the reference style of your choice (Vancouver, APA, Harvard etc).

EndNote 20 desktop version - Journal of the Medical Library Association 109 (3) 2021

EndNote Web

Set up an EndNote Web account

Why?  If you have integration between your desktop application and EndNote Web set up, the Find Full Text Function retrieves more full text than EndNote is able to if this is not synced.

Once you have your account set up, go into EndNote preferences on your desktop application, choose:

  • Edit
  • Preferences
  • Sync
  • Enter your EndNote Web Account Credentials and hit apply.

Setting EndNote Preferences

Set preferences in order to make use of the Find Full Text function within EndNote

Note that ‘Find full text’ will work well for many journals but will not work for some where full text access is in fact available. Some records will not contain enough information for the article to be retrieved (it’s important to import complete references), access to some titles may only be available via an aggregator and not from the publisher URL that comes with the record, and some journals need to be accessed via a path that includes a login and this cannot be incorporated into EndNote’s Find Full Text search.

 

  1. Edit EndNote preferences once you have the program open.
  • For Windows, go to: Edit > Preferences > Find Full Text
  • For Macs, go to: EndNote > EndNote Preferences > Find Full Text
  1. Tick all four boxes: Web of Science;  DOI;  PubMed LinkOut; and OpenURL.
  2. Do NOT tick the box "Automatically invoke Find Full Text on newly-imported references".  
    If you tick this box it will restrict full-text retrieval as it only pulls in the full text for references that were imported from text files. If the references were imported through direct export or from online search the find full text function will fail.
  3. On WA Health PCs, in the Authenticate with: box, type http://www.google.com.au/ (this step is NOT necessary for home installations).
  4. In the OpenURL Path box, you need to put the link to the Library’s open URL resolver.
    • https://login.pwlibresources.health.wa.gov.au/login?url=https://findit.health.wa.gov.au/path
  • TIP: The Find Full Text function also works more effectively if you have an EndNote web account established and if you login and keep open an active browser session whilst running the function.