New EndNote X7.2 Sharing Feature

EndNote reference manager recently announced that version X7.2 now allows users to share their entire libraries with up to 15 others who also have X7.2 and cloud access.  That is a great new feature.  There is no longer a file size limitation.  Shared users have the ability to read/write.  All the references and associated PDF files can be shared.  This feature provides great opportunities for collaborative work. View the video below to find out more information on the feature.

Cannot get EndNote to work in OpenOffice Version 4

A student in one of the classes I teach is using OpenOffice and EndNote.  Since the hard drive on my computer was reformatted recently, I had to download OpenOffice again to attempt to replicate his experience.  The most recent version of OpenOffice is version 4.When I opened a text document in OpenOffice I could not find the EndNote menu.  I did a repair and it still did not show up.  I uninstalled EndNote and reinstalled it - no luck. 

I finally went into the program folder and ran Configure EndNote only to discover that version 4 of OpenOffice is not yet compatible with EndNote.  The option to use OpenOffice was greyed out. Bummer...

EndNote Citation Manager Update

EndNote citation manager has made new changes by marketing the web version as being free. I imagine that the reason is to be in competition with other free citation managers, such as Zotero, Mendeley, and others (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software).  The web version used to be called EndNote Web.  The new name is EndNote Basic.  The new EndNote Basic provides 2 GB of storage which is comparable to Zotero.

EndNote recently released a free app for the iPad, but the app works only for users who have the EndNote program for the Mac and Windows PC (the purchased version) account.  The most recent version of the stand alone app is X7. 

EndNote Basic provides add-on extensions for the Firefox and Chrome web browsers (probably others, too).  The add-on provides an option to save the citation to MyEndnote.com or Endnote.  When experimenting with it today, I noted that it correctly grabbed the name of the Wikipedia page comparing reference management software, but it did not find the name of the page comparing EndNote Basic with EndNote at http://endnote.com/basic.  I had avoided using the web version previously because it often crashed when I chose the option to capture to the desktop EndNote program.  It did not crash this morning.

Although I was able to capture from a couple of webpages today, it was still annoying.  I had changed the setting on the web version to indicate that the citation was for a webpage, but when I imported the citations to EndNote desktop app, the citations were imported as journal articles.

There are many tutorials for using EndNote on YouTube.  One example is the video below.