The university provides a site license for EndNote. Current Northwestern students, faculty and staff with valid Net IDs can download EndNote for free. You are eligible to download it to both your work and home computers. If you do not know your Net ID or are having problems downloading the software, please contact the NUIT Support Center. Also, see Note to hospital-based users below.

• Download EndNote (you will be prompted to sign in using your NetID and password).
• Note to Windows users: When downloading select "Save File". A zipped folder will be downloaded to your computer. Do not double click on the zipped folder. Instead, right click and extract the contents of the folder to a convenient file folder on your computer. Check out this 1-minute tutorial for further instruction on this.
• After installing the software you should run the update to X2. In EndNote, go to Help >  EndNote Program Updates and follow the on-screen prompts.
• If you are off-campus when installing EndNote, you will need to first connect to NU using VPN (signing in to the Galter Library website is not sufficient).

Note to hospital-based users: If you are based at an NU-affiliated hospital, you may experience problems downloading the EndNote software to your hospital computer. This is usually due to download restrictions imposed on hospital computers by your Information Systems support. Before trying to install EndNote, please contact the Information Systems support at the hospital where you are based.  You can also download EndNote to your home computer. Please follow the download instructions carefully.

• EndNote Basics (includes brief how-to videos)
• EndNote FAQs from Galter
• EndNote X2 online class recording (approximately 1 hour)
  Turn up the volume on your speakers; maximize your browser window; screen images will appear about one minute into the recording.

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• Advanced EndNote (includes brief how-to videos)
• How to bring an old bibliography into EndNote
• Configuring EndNote to Access Full-Text Articles through Northwestern’s OpenURL Resolver (Findit@NU)
• For more tips and guides, see the Northwestern University Library EndNote Support page

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• Take a class
• Contact the Education Team: email us or  call (312) 503-8109
• Contact EndNote Technical Support
• EndNote FAQs from Galter
• EndNote FAQs from the EndNote website
• EndNote Interest List Archive

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This page last updated Oct 22, 2009.