Afraid to use Endnote? Here are some tricks...

Endnote may seem complicated. However, once you learn a couple of tricks, it becomes a nice, helpful software that can solve most of your citation management problems. Here are those tricks:

1) Use Endnote in collaboration with Scholar Google: If you go to Scholar Preferences and turn on and change "show links to import citations into" option to "Endnote", you will see an "import into Endnote" link at the end of each search result. This will help you to import the citation directly into your library.

2) Attach your articles to citations: When you download the .pdf file for an article attach it to the corresponding citation entry in Endnote by right clicking on the entry and selecting "File Attachments". This way, the next time you want to read the article, you can search for it with some keywords and open it from Endnote.

3) Keep the Endnote library and article folder in the same folder: If you put all the .pdf files in a folder and locate this folder in the same folder with the Endnote library, then you can move the big folder around. Moving the big folder will not affect the links from the Endnote citation entries to .pdf files because the links are relative.

Turnitin.com announces support for 31 languages

This Message was recently sent by Turnitin.com:

We are pleased to announce Turnitin Global with vastly IMPROVED and EXPANDED handling of non-English languages!

Turnitin Global now handles text correctly in 31 languages in addition to English:

Arabic, Catalan, Chinese (simplified and traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian (Bokmal, Nynorsk), Farsi, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish.

This means that papers submitted via global.turnitin.com will generate an Originality Report with no question marks or odd character strings replacing "special" characters.

This also means we are indexing many additional websites that contain those languages against which we compare submitted papers.

To try this capability, you must sign in through global.turnitin.com (using your regular login information). Anything that is created or submitted through global.turnitin.com will also be available in www.turnitin.com (albeit with the current service's text display limitations).

By the end of October, this capability will be fully operational for all Turnitin users without having to use global.turnitin.com.

Note that while we are in the process of translating the Turnitin interface into many languages, it has not yet been translated to each of the above languages. Watch for additional announcements.

Note also that we do not translate the paper that is submitted in any way (e.g. we don't translate it to English and try to find more matches).

Please feel free to contact the Turnitin helpdesk if you have any additional questions regarding Turnitin Global.