Hi Eric,
I hadn't even thought about this as a possibility. I tried it and imported
the reference into EndNote 7 - it was effortless, which is excellent news -
but I have a couple of queries - not sure whether these are down to EndNote
or the OpenURL Resolver:
1. EndNote recognises it as a generic reference not a journal article
2. It didn't import the subtitle of the article
3. It only imported the surname and not the initials of the author
4. It imported the title of the journal as Annals of the History of
Computing, IEEE whereas I thought the title was IEEE Annals of the History
of Computing
In other words some post import tidying up of the reference within EndNote
is still required or have I misunderstood?
Cheers
Lesley
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Subject: Re: Reference Information Software and Full Text Electronic Journal
Services
OpenURL is one way to go. Many OpenURL resolvers, including ours, implement
these types of links. Including the abstract is not something generally
available; some publishers copyright their abstracts. Doing it this way,
through a library service, helps to present a uniform user interface that
works the same way across many databases and publishers.
for example, try:
http://isi.1cate.com/?genre=article&atitle=Memoirs%20of%20a%20software%20pio
neer&title=Annals%20of%20the%20History%20of%20Computing%2C%20IEEE&issn=1058-
6180&date=2002&volume=24&issue=4&spage=14&epage=31&aulast=Goetz
and look at the bottom.
see you all at UKSG,
Eric
At 3:11 PM +0000 3/18/04, Lesley Crawshaw wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have some responsibility at my institution for the reference
>information software, EndNote. One of those responsibilities is that I
>run training sessions on the use of EndNote for researchers, academic
>staff and in some cases, undergraduate students.
>
>Whilst most database services and some electronic journals
>services/publishers make it very easy to import bibliographic
>information either directly into EndNote e.g. American Physical
>Society, IEEE Explore, Highwire, IoP Electronic Journals,
>ScienceDirect, and Synergy or via the use of a filter e.g. ingenta,
>JSTOR, some electronic journals services do not appear to provide this
>facility at all. Is this because they haven't perceived a need for such
>a facility?
>
>Can anyone advise me if it is possible to import records from Wiley
>InterScience or MetaPress sites into EndNote? If so - how?
>
>I also noticed that whilst Kluwer Online allows the importing of
>individual citations into EndNote or other Reference Information
>Management software, there is no option to include the abstracts or to
>import a collection of marked/selected references into EndNote. In the
>case of Emerald there doesn't appear to be an option to include the
>abstracts in the information downloaded.
>
>Services such as ScienceDirect and Highwire make it very easy for users
>to know that this facility is available when browsing issues or looking
>at the results of a search. If one is using ingenta one can see it's
>possible to download the results as an ASCII file, but the only other
>information I could find about downloading information into EndNote was
>in the Help: FAQs for Librarians - I can't see our users looking there
>for their answers!! The information there was minimal. It would have
>been helpful to have a link to the filter from those FAQs. Otherwise
>it's a case of going to the EndNote site and figuring out that the
>filter you need is Uncover. Maybe something for the new ingentaconnect.
>
>As RIS software is so important for researchers and the like, it is
>very frustrating for users to see how easy it is to use it with some
>electronic services, but not others. In these cases their only
>alternative was either to cut and paste and then edit the information
>or to input the relevant information by hand.
>
>Anyone else out there had these kind of problems?
>
>Cheers
>Lesley
>
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