Re: Questions about Endnoteweb for a virtual team collaboration

Hi Monica,

As others have pointed out, Endnote Web is not much use for
CWYW at this
point, but I do think it's strength is in sharing
bibliographies. My
institution is still on EN9, and export/import with ENWeb is
clunky. I
understand that transferring references from endnote 10
desktop and
endnote web is very smooth.

Even without this facility, I was able to export a subset of
my library
to my endnote web account and make it accessible to my
students instead
of hading out a paper bibliography this last semester. I was
able to add
to this library throughout the semester as the students'
interests and
research progressed. The feedback I received suggested that
most of them
found it easy to import references from my shared library
into their own
endnote web libraries, and it jump-started their reading on
their
resesarch projects. Note that they cannot modify references
they have
access to in my shared library. This was a
"one-way" sharing use.

In a collaborative project, each member would create an
endnote web   
library and share it with the other members.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you could make
one "group
library" which everyone could modify. Shared libraries
can only be
modified by their originator. Nonetheless,  I suspect this
application
could work for the kinds of exchanges you describe.

and yes, ENWeb is part of the university site licence.

HOpe it works out. We'll all be interested to hear of your
experience.

Julie Solomon
Romance Languages
Wesleyan University


On 23 juin 07, at 03:57, Monica.Barratt[tronicagmail.com] wrote:

> Hi Endnoters
>
> My colleagues and I do not have a central server that
we all have 
> access to. We are working on PhD's in similar fields
and have decided 
> we would like to share references with each other. We
are looking for 
> a way to do that easily.
>
> We checked out CiteULike, created a group, but were
unable to index 
> our group's citations with tags without including every
other article 
> on CiteULike, which means we ended up with way too much
'noise'. Most 
> of us use Endnote anyway, so we are going to
investigate EndnoteWeb.
>
> Does anyone on this list have any experience with
EndnoteWeb? We would

> like to be able to create a group to share references
with each other,

> so we can easy search the group archive on
tags/keywords. It would be 
> good to be able to just press a button that was part of
Endnote that 
> automatically uploaded the article to the online group.
Equally it 
> would be handy to be able to 'download' the citation
from the web 
> group to individual libraries, when we see a colleague
in the group 
> uploaded an article we are interested in reading.
>
> Also, is Endnoteweb part of university licenses for
Endnote, or do we 
> need have to pay for it on top of our Endnote
licenses?
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Monica
>
> Monica Barratt
> PhD Student
> National Drug Research Institute
> htt
p://db.ndri.curtin.edu.au/staff.asp?persid=650
> http://www.linked
in.com/in/mbarratt
>