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USING
EndNote Import Filters
General information about import filters can be found using EndNote's
help feature. Before using the import feature, it is always a good
idea to see if there are any special instruction for your database.
Import instructions can be found by clicking on the " import filters"
option under "edit", select the "open t filter manager"
option, find your database, then double-click .
Listed below are instructions that may be
used with FirstSearch databases. The steps will be similar for
other databases:
Within the FirstSearch database:
- Run your search
- Mark the citations that you want to export into
EndNote
- Click on the Export button
- Next to Export:, click on “Marked
records from this search”
- Next to Export to:, click
on “Text file” (NOTE: Don’t click on EndNote—it isn’t
working properly right now)
- Click on the Export button
- At the next screen – “Do you want to open or
save this file?” – click on Save
- Choose the folder to which you want to save
- Name the document – make sure that you add the
.txt extension to the file name
- You can change the file type to All Files
if you have difficulty saving
- Click on Save
- When you receive the screen that says “Download
Complete,” click on Close
Within EndNote:
- Open EndNote
- Open the EndNote library into which you want to
place the citations
- Click on File/Import
- In the Import Data File box, click
on Choose File to locate the file you just saved. Double click
on it.
- In the Import Option box, click on
the drop-down arrow
If you have imported
citations from this database before, its name will show up as one of the
import options.
If you have not imported
citations from this database before, click on Other filters,
and then select the database that you were using in your search above –
for example, ERIC (OCLC)
- Leave the Duplicates and the
Text Translations boxes as they are
- Click on the Import button
- The citations you just added will display in
your library window
- To return to the list of all of the citations in
your library, click on References/Show all references
Prepared by Janet
Dagenais Brown, Assoc. Professor
Education and Social Sciences Librarian
April 06, 2005
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