Endnote X2, Student Edition

by ISI Researchsoft

Product Features

• STUDENT EDITION MAC

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B001GQJKEE
• Item model number: 2222
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 26, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,377 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

FOR STUDENT USE ONLY ENDNOTE X2

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Returned, Not Functional With Mac OSX 10.5 and MSWord, January 7, 2009

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A. Bowen "Homebody" (Washington, D.C.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Endnote X2, Student Edition (CD-ROM)

This is a terrible piece of software. The user interface is not intuitive at all and, after just entering 40 citations it consistently froze my version of MSWord. I tried trouble shooting using their online support but nothing helped. I've returned the product and will be using Bookends from now on.

Save your money and use something like Bookends or just type your citations by hand. If you choose to use Endnote I would STRONGLY encourage you to keep frequent backups.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poorly designed user interface, slow performance, December 17, 2008

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ej (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Endnote X2, Student Edition (CD-ROM)

Endnote X2 for Mac has one of the least visually-attractive user interfaces I've ever encountered and is equally lacking in its ease and convenience of use. Thompson has probably needed to make a conscious, concerted effort to make the user interface this unappealing and un-Mac like as possible.

On-line searching remote sources such as Pubmed has gotten significantly worse in this release. Anybody who as ever done a Pubmed search knows that you'll usually get two or three references that you want in your library and many others that you don't want. Despite this, the default behavior of Endnote X2 is to automatically add all the newly found references to your user library, and you then must remove the unwanted references manually. There is a way to work around this, and Thompson claims on their website that they are going to correct this ill-conceived workflow in a future patch. But this is just one example that illustrates the lack of intelligent, user-focused design that characterizes Endnote X2.

Overall, the workflow is unintuitive and clunky. Doing most frequent tasks requires far too many clicks and menu selections Despite my running it on a brand new Macbook Pro, the whole program manages to run very slowly and have the feel of driving cross-country in a a rusted out 1978 Pontiac. You'll probably get to your destination eventually, but you'll be nervous the whole way.

Just about the only thing that Endnote X2 for Mac has going for it is large market share and an ability to share libraries with your PC-using colleagues.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The best bibliography software, November 9, 2008

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F. K. Eshun "Feshun" (Phoenix Az) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Endnote X2, Student Edition (CD-ROM)

A must-have for every serious writer. The new full text picture does not work very well. But overall a very good product. It will be nice to have the Mac and Windows versions all on one CD.