Dean's Faculty Update
EndNote Web for Publications
Date: September 19th, 2008
From: Mark R. McLellan, Dean
IFAS Faculty ----
As you know we have killed UNIFAS — long live UNIFAS! --- Ok now that that’s done let’s get back to business - We need your publications – all of them – all that you have published your whole career and all that you will continue to publish! And we have a great commercial tool for you to use in this process that the university has purchased use of: Endnote Web!
We are required to report publications to the federal government, we are required as the Experiment Station of the State of Florida to publish them regularly, we need them for the budget model developed by the Budget Task Force --- BUT ... most importantly — We need them to brag the heck out of how good you all are!!! We need to brag about your science as a great return on the state's investment in you!
EndNote Web is a popular bibliographical software tool used by students and researchers to organize reference citations. It is a web-based system that is accessed using an internet browser (such as Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox).
EndNote Web provides users with the ability to build lists of publications in a streamlined, user-friendly environment. Publication lists are created by manually entering publication information or by importing publication data from popular databases. These publication lists can then be checked for duplicates and shared with other EndNote Web accounts.
We will collect UF/IFAS publications in 3 simple steps:
- Enter your career publications to date (see faculty instructions).
- Share publications with your unit administrator (see administrator instructions).
- Unit administrator will share publications with the Dean's office.
Your publications will be searchable by keyword online or observable as a unit collection of publications.
We have successfully pre-tested the EndNote Web input and collection process with two units: Florida Medical Entomology Lab, Vero Beach and the Dept. of Agricultural and Biological Engineering.
Your contact for EndNote is Brian Gray at 352-392-1784. Email: seven7@ufl.edu
So — please now import all your publications into an Endnote Web file. Manually add your other publications that are not located in national databases. Share your Endnote Web file with your unit leader or their designate. Then update your personal file as you add publications. At the end of the calendar year we will call for all unit files to be shared with the Experiment Station as a summary of your publications. It will be important that by December 31st --- you have loaded any new or additional publications to your file and shared it with your unit leader as after that we will aggregate and publish the entire published works of IFAS!
Thanks for helping us with this important measure of our productivity. We look forward to seeing your publication lists.
Instruction Guides:
- Faculty Instructions (Adobe PDF)
- Unit Administrator Instructions (Adobe PDF)
Mark R. McLellan
Dean for Research, IFAS
Director, Florida Agricultural Experiment Station
