| A wide-ranging awareness of the literature attached to a given topic has long been a hallmark of scholarship. Bibliographies are both an important educational tool that helps to focus attention on important contributions in a field and they are an essential part of research documentation. The recent technological advances in Information Retrieval can be combined with software that simplifies the creation of bibliographies while increasing the flexibility of their final form. ProCite is one such product, that permits the creation of a well organised list of sources that can be stored for reference, formatted for various bibliographic styles, included in word processing documents and arranged in a variety of methods for use in education and research. An extra utility, Bibliolink, permits easy downloading of records into the system. The bibliographies are highly portable and can be utillised on course syllabi and webpages. |
ISI, the Institute for Scientific Information., produces several applications for Bibliographic functions. Two such products have trial versions, ProCite and EndNote:
ProCite: http://www.procite.com/
EndNote: http://www.endnote.com/ENhome.htm
A Bibliographic application such as ProCite or EndNote attempts to ease some of the difficulties of producing bibliographies. It allows bibliographic records, which can include items other than printed matter such as videos, art works, etc. to be maintained in an orderly fashion. This set of records can be sorted, selected and formatted for a bibliography or series of footnotes in a variety of ways.
Records can be created by entering the data into special "workforms" that correspond to the item’s characteristics (i.e. book, journal article, multimedia, computer file, etc.) Records can often be downloaded directly from another source.
The records can be used in the creation of a research paper or book in combination with a word processing program. Footnotes or bibliography can be plucked from the file and incorporated into the final product. The ability to use multiple citation styles, such as Chicago or APA, is often handy for differing requirements of publication.
Recent versions allow direct connection to catalogs and databases, Web pages, and improved capacity to handle other non-standard kinds of documents (images and the like.) Also recently improved are means of inserting citations into manuscripts.
For SFSU Catalog Connection File, go to EndNote
Connection File
Downlooad to EndNote Connection Files folder
For Instructions on Downloading Records & Creating Bibliographies
see my Endnote
Handout in MS Word
N.Fielden
revised Dec. 2002