A.R. Dykes Library Blog

Dykes Library has been updating the most influential bibliographic management tool, EndNote, whenever new versions become available. The most recent update, EndNote 2025, will be available for you beginning fall 2025.

What’s new in EndNote 2025?

• Easier navigation with redesigned summary panel
• Cite from PDF: allows for quoting and referencing the PDF
• Preflight pre-submission: improve technical and language issues in the manuscript
• Web of Science integration: showing the citing articles and related records
• Key Takeaway: a concise summary of PDFs and documents with AI-powered Research Assistant

Why should I use EndNote?

Using EndNote can significantly improve your research process and scholarly writing. Selected top reasons include:

• Manage references efficiently with groups and subgroups for different projects
• Attach, read, and annotate PDFs
• Automatic citation formatting with proper referencing
• Collaborating and sharing references with colleagues

Who can download and install EndNote 2025?

• Current students, staff, and faculty of the University of Kansas Medical Center
• Dually employed, meaning staff appointed or employed at both the University of Kansas Medical Center and the The University of Kansas Health System. 

University licensing of EndNote software through Dykes Library does not cover University of Kansas Health System employees unless they hold dual appointments.

How do I download and install EndNote 2025?

For University-owned computers:

• Windows: Use Software Center: Follow instructions on the software Center page.
• Mac OS: Use Self Services: Follow instructions on the software Self Service page.

KUMC students, faculty, and staff can also install EndNote on their personal computers. Please choose the appropriate version for your operating system from the MyKUMC Software page.

Learn more about EndNote 2025 in the EndNote 2025 Research Guide.

Connect with a Research Librarian

• Email: dykesresearch@kumc.edu
• Schedule a meeting with a Research Librarian

We're excited to announce that Dykes Library has entered into three new open access funding agreements. KUMC corresponding authors whose manuscripts are accepted for publication in eligible journals during the agreement term will have their article processing charges (APCs) waived. 

1. Cambridge University Press
   1. Agreement term: 2025
   2. Over 350 eligible hybrid and fully open access journals
2. Institute of Physics (IOP)
   1. Agreement term: 2025-2026
   2. Most journals are eligible
3. PLOS
   1. Agreement term: 2025-2026
   2. All PLOS journals are eligible

Why Publish Open Access?

1. Publishing open access advances global equity. Researchers around the world who lack funds to acquire paywalled articles may access your research without subscription fees. 
2. Equitable access to research will lead to increased citations of your articles. 
3. Increased access to research accelerates scientific findings and drives innovation.
4. Publishing open access under Dykes Library's agreements allows us to achieve the full value of our open access investments. 

Visit our Open Access publishing guide for more details about publishing under these agreements, as well as our other open access funding opportunities. 

Happy publishing!

The staff and librarians of KUMC’s A.R. Dykes Library support many different information needs from KUMC library users, including all KUMC students, staff, faculty, and affiliated researchers. We use a variety of online resources such as the library's public homepage, its interlibrary loan requesting service, and its research guides to address some of these needs. These resources, though, are by nature broad in scope and don't answer every unique question that KUMC library users may have. For specific user inquiries, librarians provide research consultations.

What is a Research Consultation?

Research consultations are direct meetings or interactions between a librarian and an individual or small group of library users. To me they are a process of mutual learning and sharing of knowledge. Many KUMC library users possess knowledge and ideas from their experience and domain expertise that librarians don't have; conversely, librarians know how to connect that knowledge and ideas to relevant tools, resources, and services that help the library user to achieve their goals. That partnership and chance to learn from each other is an invaluable asset to all KUMC students, staff, faculty, and affiliated researchers looking to enhance their research knowledge and skills

Consultation Topics

Librarians assist with a number of different topics in research consultations, including research best practices, creating research questions and search strategies, locating publishing/library-provided funding options, advising with non-legal guidance on the use of copyrighted works in student theses and dissertations, setting up and troubleshooting in EndNote 21 and Covidence, and addressing faculty needs in supporting information and resource access in curriculum materials.

Consultation Questions

To get a feel for what this process is like, it may be helpful to see examples of actual questions from library users I've encountered during my time at KUMC:

• “Would you give me an opinion on a journal that emailed me directly? I’ve got a paper I need to resubmit somewhere, but I’m always a bit leery of the solicitations.”
• “What are the copyright rules of using an article the library doesn't have access to in my classroom?”
• “How do I find articles that talk about populations with respiratory illnesses living in urban environments are affected by excessive heat?”
• “How do I properly cite and comply with copyright best practices for using two figures in my dissertation?”
• “What kinds of databases can help me search for developments and research in medical education?”

These are some examples of the kinds of questions Research and Learning librarians can help answer in research consultations.

Scheduling a Research Consultation

All research consultations are free of charge and can occur in-person, via Zoom/Teams, and via email correspondence depending on the question. Sometimes a topic is more straightforward, sometimes it requires a quicker back and forth verbally.

The best method for scheduling a research consultation is by navigating to the Research and Learning page on the library homepage. There, a library user may locate their school's Research and Learning liaison librarian to email directly or schedule a consultation using the librarian’s scheduler tool. This will show librarian availability so a user can easily find a time that suits both the user and librarian.

If a library user isn’t sure who to set up a consultation with, email dykesresearch@kumc.edu.