ISGuides: EndNote: Access to EndNote

EndNote 20 (desktop)

EndNote Desktop at Heriot-Watt campuses
EndNote is a desktop reference management tool. It is available on all university-owned PCs.
EndNote Desktop for Personal Use
You can now install, for free, one copy of EndNote 20 on your own computer for personal use.

Please note: the installation does not include the installation of the 'Harvard HWU Cite Them Right' style. See Styles for help with downloading additional styles.

If you want to install EndNote for personal use, please see:

Licence details and Installation instructions for EndNote 20

For help setting up your EndNote Library, see:

Training Materials

EndNote Basic / EndNote Online

EndNote 20 (desktop) is a better reference management tool than EndNote Basic or EndNote Online, with many additional features not available in the basic/online versions. See:

EndNote 20 (desktop) v EndNote Basic / Online
Outline of the main differences between EndNote 20 (desktop) and the Online and Basic versions.

For this reason, we recommend you use EndNote Desktop 20 and only use an online version for 'syncing'. You would need to sync your libraries if:

you need to use more than one device (e.g. PC at University and personal laptop)
you want to share your references/Library with colleagues/friends
you have previously used EndNote Online and wish to start using EndNote Desktop (syncing will get all of your online library references into your desktop library).

For instructions on how to do this, see Appendix B: Syncing Endnote Online and EndNote Desktop:

EndNote 20 at Heriot-Watt Introduction 1.0 Installing EndNote 20 on your laptop/PC 2.0 Installing Harvard HWU Cite Them Right style 3.0 Creating an EndNote Library 4.0 Getting references, PDFs and files into your EndNote Library 5.0 Managing your EndNote Library 6.0 Searching within your EndNote Library 7.0 Reference styles 8.0 Cite While You Write in Microsoft Word 9.0 Creating a quick reference list 10.0 Other features Appendix A: How to enter/edit details into EndNote fields Appendix B: Syncing Endnote Online and EndNote Desktop

If you need to access EndNote Basic directly, please use the following link:

EndNote Basic (online)

Other Reference Management Software

There are many other tools available, however, EndNote is the software we can provide help and guidance with. For other tools see:

Comparison of reference management software
Wikipedia entry comparing the features of different RMS including EndNote, Citavi, Mendeley RefME and Zotero. Note, the table says EndNote has a cost, but as part of the University license, it is freely available on all University owned PCs and available for download onto one personal device.