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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