The Library has had a campus-wide licence with EndNote since January 2009, allowing students and employees of the University of Konstanz to install EndNote on their personal computers.

This comprehensive bibliographic management program allows you to easily collect, organize and integrate literature into a text and build a bibliography. Thus making EndNote useful for both students, who are writing a lengthy thesis or final paper, as well as for academics, who want to organize bibliographical data in their research. But the program can also be used by anyone who wants to compile an electronic "box of notes" and needs a place to keep the structured and bundled information. 

Basic information

Authorized persons: students and employees of the University of Konstanz

Operating systems: Windows, Macintosh

Language: english

Version: single-position system- desktop version. Combinable with EndNoteWeb

Maximal size of the database: unlimited

Cite while you write: compiling is not necessary

Further informationen

Tutorials on Youtube (videos on various EndNote-applications)

Download and installation of the program

Please authenticate your eligibility for use with your matriculation or employee number and your library password. The university's present EndNote licence runs out on January 31, 2015; by downloading the program you are agreeing to uninstall the software by this time.

Download the program here (for Mac and Windows).

With the given installation files you can install EndNote on your computer. Follow the instructions on the setup menu.

Installation of filter and connection-files
 

To import data from our local catalogue of the University of Konstanz into the bibliographic management program EndNote you have to install the KonstanzImport-filter:

Download KonstanzImport.enf

Store the import-filter in EndNote's program folder in the "Filters" folder. The next time you start EndNote the import filter for our local catalogue will be in the list of all available import filters.

In order to be able to use the direct import, you must first configure a connection file. You can download it here:

Download KNUB.enz

Copy the data KNUB.enz into the program folder (C:\Programme\Endnote\Connections).

Alternatively you can also establish your own connection-file.
The connection parameters are:

          * Server: 134.34.33.21 ; Port: 9999 (neue IP-Adresse seit dem 23.09.08)

          * Datenbank: KON

          * We recommend Latin-1 as the text code


You can download more filters here:

http://www.endnote.com/support/enfilters.asp

OpenURL-Path to Import fulltexts

For optimal use of this feature please choose Edit - Preferences - Find Full Text and enter the following OpenURL Path:

http://me8xh5ls2s.search.serialssolutions.com/ 

Installation, if you are using OpenOffice/LibreOffice (»Cite while you write«-Feature)

When using OpenOffice there is a EndNote-plugin, that enables simply working with OpenOffice and EndNote. The plugin should be installed automatically while installing EndNote.

If you are working with LibreOffice, you have to install the plugin on your own. It is easy:

1. You installed EndNote.
2. You installed LibreOffice.
3. In LibreOffice open the Extension Manager via "Extras" - "Extension Manager".
4. Klick the "Add"-button.
5. The menu will open and now select C:/Programme/CommonFiles/ResearchSoft/Cwyw/14/ (it can also be C:/Program Files/CommonFiles/ResearchSoft/Cwyw/14/)
6. In the folder you will find the file EndNote.oxt. Select the file and click "Open". The extension "EndNote" is now in the list of all LibreOffice extensions.
7. Close LibreOffice and start the program. You find the EndNote-Extension in the heading of LibreOffice.

 

Import text data from our local catalogue into EndNote

To import bibliographic reference you have to cache as text data.
In our local catalogue mark every title that you would like to import into EndNote. Next click the button "Download Selection" (Auswahl herunterladen) underneath the list and then choose "Bibliographic Format" (Bibliographisches Format). You should then save the list of titles as text data on your computer's hard disk.

Now open EndNote. In the Menu under File/Import you can select the import option and then choose the previously saved data.

Choose the text data and the filter KonstanzImport.enf and load the data into EndNote.