e-learning EndNote

Finding academic resources & using EndNote

Academic resources

EndNote

Research tools

Plagiarism & Data saving

Search method

UCLouvain's libraries

Finding academic resources & using EndNote

online catalogue

The access is free for each University member with his personal access card.

• 10 academic libraries located on the four Uclouvain campuses: Louvain-la-Neuve, Bruxelles-Woluwe, Tournai and Mons.

• Each one provides an extensive collection in their belong scientific fields and various services: online catalogue, borrowing and reserving items, WI-FI, remote access (Proxy), Find it (tool to find your search item in all our collections), interlibrary loan, copy and print room, computers, helpdesk, trainings.

• They extend their services to collaborative work with the 4 Learning centers : learning spaces, group work rooms, computers, data center, …

https://uclouvain.be/bibliotheques

Overview of UCLouvain Libraries

UCLouvain's libraries

UCLouvain's libraries

Affluences

• Working spaces
• Computers
• Group work rooms (book one on Affluences)
• Data center room with Bloomberg terminals and Macrobond access
• Seminar room

• Access to our paper collections organized following the Library of Congress system: books, encyclopaedia, dictionary, thesis, journals, newspapers, …
• Helpdesk
• Working spaces
• Copy, print and scan

Learning Center (new) :

Library :

BSPO Library - Learning Center Montesquieu

UCLouvain's libraries

UCLouvain's libraries

BSPO library is attached to the ESPO faculty and LSM and covered the fields of economic, social, political sciences and communication. It is divided into two different spaces: the library and the Learning Center. Address: Place Montesquieu 5 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Opening hours: Monday 10h30-19h30, Tuesday-Thursday 8h30-19h30, Friday 8h30-17h

Using academic resources assure you the reliability of the consulted information and so, the quality of your paper.

• Academic resources are peer reviewed. Peer reviewing is a validation process of the content information;
• The author credentials: he is an expert on the studied subject;
• The publisher is known to publish scientific literature, for example, a university press;
• The format of the text, you should always find a bibliography with the list of references used by the author.

We define academic resources as all works published by a scientific or an expert of the concerned scientific field. There are various types of sources in the scientific literature: books, articles, PhD theses, conference proceedings, research reports, … A few criteria may help you to determine if it is an academic resource or not:

What are academic resources?

Academic resources

Focus on peer-reviewed journal articles

Academic resources

You will find scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals (also called “refereed journals” or “scholarly journals”). It means that all the articles in these journals are written by an expert of the subject and are reviewed by other experts of the studied field. The purpose of the peer-reviewed process is to ensure the articles quality before the publication. To help you to identify if the journal article is a peer-reviewed one, some databases have search options to allow you to limit your searches only to peer-reviewed articles, for example, ABI-Inform or Business Source Premier.

This part can help you to improve it and be more efficient, you can choose a part of it, all of it, or you can decide not to follow it. It's your choice.

If you already have a method, that's great!

This section introduces you a method to search information

Search method

Open tools

Academic tools

Research tools

Google Scholar

Discovery Tool

Databases

Catalogue

Research tools

Discovery Tool

Research tools

Google Scholar

https://uclouvain.be/fr/etudier/plagiat

According to the Oxford English Dictionary the plagiarism is: “the action or practice of taking someone else’s work, idea, etc., and passing it off as one’s own”. There are different kinds of plagiarism: it’s not only about copying and pasting texts, you also need to give the original author credits when you paraphrase or use figures, data, images, … Check out UCLouvain’s guidelines and more information about plagiarism on website page: https://uclouvain.be/fr/etudier/plagiat There are academic sanctions for plagiarism and it’s your responsibility to avoid it!

What's plagiarism?

Plagiarism & Data saving

To respect copyright, you need to be familiar with its national rules and academic guidelines. In your academic paper you must reference all your sources (published or unpblished ones). Referencing is the act of collecting and citing the original sources of information used, in the form of in-text citations and bibliography. This action will protect you from any suspicion of plagiarism and give credibility to your work. It will demonstrate that you are conscious of the importance of a good information search. It’s also the best way to prove that you are concerned by the principle of intellectual honesty, basis of academic integrity.

How to avoid plagiarism?

Plagiarism & Data saving

like APA style manual.

All this can be done quickly and easily with a reference management software.

• Be methodical from the beginning of your information search: Take times to do good research, record your results and organize them with folders. Take notes on your keywords and the tools in which you carried out the research.

• For each source of information, note down as much metadata as possible to help you with referencing (title, author, URL, database used, etc.).

• Be scrupulous when you are taking notes, identify clearly from which document and page(s) the information or ideas come from.

• Be meticulous when citing in your work. Every time you use directly or not, an idea from an author, cite him. For that, follow a standard with a style manual,

Some tips to incorporate sources in your work

Plagiarism & Data saving

A reference management software helps you to organize your information research and to reference accurately and efficiently in your paper, with automatically, in-text citations and bibliography formatted in the desired reference style. There are a lot of reference management software which the most known are EndNote, Mendeley, Zotero, Reference Manager, RefWorks, EasyBib,... Some of them are free, others free only for limited options and others have a cost. To select your reference management software, take information about the options. It’s up to you to use one or another, all of them allow you to gain time in referencing, the choice depends on the convenience of the platform. We present you the EndNote software because it’s the one chosen by our University. All UCLouvain students may have a licence to use it for free.

What's a reference management software?

Plagiarism & Data saving

EndNote: Why? How?

Share

Optimise

Manage

Centralise

Start

Advantages

Link to download EndNote : https://intranet.uclouvain.be/fr/myucl/services-informatiques/telechargement-logiciels.html If W7 or W8, unzip the file before install.

EndNote

EndNote

Advantages

Follow the rest of our presentation to start to use Endnote and to gain time in referencing.

• Centralize all your references in a customized library (with import options from a lot of searching tools);

• For each reference, attach PDF’s, sound files, videos, charts, reading notes…;

• Read and annotate PDF’s;

• Organize your references with groups (categorized by topic, project, author or what you want);

• Sync your endnote library with an online account or share it to others;

• Choose one of about more than 200 pre-recorded reference style to export a bibliography;

• Use citewhileyouwrite in Microsoft Word, Pages or OpenOffice to insert automatically citations and bibliography matching with the selected reference style.

Endnote is a reference management software which helps you in your information search method and with your academic work. With endnote you can:

EndNote

Import a library

Create a library

Start

EndNote

Add a new reference

If you already have a full-text article in PDF or a folder of PDFs, go to File > Import and choose a file or a folder. Choose Import Option “PDF’ and Text translation “UTF-8” to maintain accents and symbols in the reference’s metadata. If the PDF document contains a DOI, the fields will be filled in automatically (manual verification is recommended).

A DOI (Digital Object Identifier) identify specifically an electronic document (such as an academic article). To fulfill automatically your reference, create a new reference and choose the electronic reference type. Fill in the DOI field (10. …) and save the reference. Right-click on "Find reference updates" (manual verification is recommended).

Centralise

EndNote

Centralise

Google Scholar

ABI/Informor Business Source Premier

Export references from ...

EndNote

Manage your EndNote library

Manage

EndNote

Cite while you write

Optimise

EndNote

https://access.clarivate.com/login?app=endnote

• Collect your references on an online storage account and eventually, synchronize it with an Endnote desktop library

• Organize your references using groups

• Share references groups and collaborate with others EndNote online users

• Integrate in-text citations using Cite While You Write add-on and create a formatted bibliography

Endnote online is the web version of Endnote: Create an account with your Uclouvain email address to benefit of a large storage account. You may use the online version alone or in combination with Endnote Desktop. Endnote Online allows you to:

EndNote web

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