And because the record and the PDF are connected in the app, there’s no getting up shuffling between the filing cabinet and the computer.Īll good, right? Well, maybe… I’ve noticed that I now accumulate many more PDFs than I ever did photocopies. Endnote (now joined by alternative bibliographic software platforms) imports PDFs and stores them for you. You don’t have to set up special files or invest in a big bulky filing cabinet. The PDF has made life so much simpler and easier. And, as you’ve already heard, all the hard copies were filed alphabetically in folders so I could dig them out, working back from the Endnote search function, any time I needed to. I added in any relevant notes as I worked my way through the pile. I did this before I’d actually read anything. I quickly entered them into Endnote – yes, that was available at the time, I was an early user and a mature age PhD. I had a set routine when new photocopies arrived. Getting the bundle of new articles was always a bit like Christmas, the scholarly textual equivalent of socks, schlock and welcome surprises. You’d send off your order and eventually a large parcel of reading would arrive in the post. At the time, journals were only available in hard copy so the university library operated a mail order system for far-away folk. I did my PhD by distance and couldn’t physically get to the library much. ![]() I reasoned that most were probably now available as PDFs should I ever want them again, and so there was nothing lost by putting them out for recycling. I didn’t feel too bad about dumping them. Neatly organised in alphabetised files, they occupied three drawers of a filing cabinet. I’d been carrying them around with me since I did my PhD. Not so long ago I did a bit of academic spring-cleaning and got rid of all of my photocopies.
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