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EndNote: Collaborating/Sharing

About Shared Libraries

  • Sync your desktop EndNote with EndNote Online
  • Share your online library with up to 100 other researchers
  • All users must have EndNote desktop versions X7.2 or later
  • Attachments (including pdfs of articles) are not shared

Share Your Library With Other Researchers

Invite others to share your library

  • Go to the file menu and click on Share OR
    • Use the share button Image of the mac version of the share button
  • Log into EndNote Online
  • Enter the e-mail addresses (separated by commas) for those you wish to share your library with
  • Enter an optional message to go in the e-mail they will get
  • Click the Invite button

Check on the status of your invitations and on the activity in your library

  • Go to the file menu and click on Share OR
    • Use the share button Image of the mac version of the share button​
  • Log into EndNote Online
  • The share with screen allows you to see what users are doing in the library, check on the status, remove someone from your shared library, or remind someone of the invitation

Image of the shared library screen

Accept a Shared Library From Another Researcher

Have you gotten an e-mail inviting you to share a library?

Shared Library Invitation

  • If you have an EndNote Online account:
    • Log in using your existing username and password

Image of screen to log into an EndNote account

    • From the File menu, click on Open Shared Library...
    • Click on the appropriate shared library based on the sharer's e-mail address
    • Click the Open button

 

  • If you don't have an EndNote Online account:
    • Create a new EndNote Online account

Image of the create an EndNote Online account​

    • From the File menu, click on Open Shared Library...
    • Click on the appropriate shared library based on the sharer's e-mail address
    • Click the Open button
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