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Importing from Databases

'Importing' is the term used to describe a number of methods available for transferring references from a database into an EndNote library, without having to manually type in each record. These include:

direct export from a database
the use of import filters
the use of connection files

While these methods can save you time, it is important to understand that importing is not possible from all databases, and importing is seldom one hundred percent accurate. It is therefore essential that you always check the quality of any references you have imported, and edit them where necessary.

Please refer to the EndNote Tutorial for more tips on transferring references from databases into EndNote.

DIRECT EXPORT

Using direct export is usually straightforward, and generally involves the following steps:

searching a database
marking the records you want to save
selecting the database's direct export option
selecting the EndNote library you wish to export the records to

The table below indicates which of our Library databases offer a direct export option, and contains direct export instructions for each of these.

Database	Instructions
ABI Inform
AMED
Annual Reviews Online
Anthropology Plus
ASCE Research Library
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Biological Abstracts
C19
CINAHL
Current Contents
Dissertations & Theses
Education Journals ProQuest
EI Compendex
Embase
Environmental Issues & Policy Index
FIAF
Film Index International
Google Scholar
IEEE Xplore
IngentaConnect
Inspec
Journals@Ovid
JSTOR
MEDLINE
MegaFile Premier
MLA
Physical Review Online Archive
Project Muse
ProQuest 5000
PsycINFO
Science Journals ProQuest
ScienceDirect
Scopus
Social Science Journals ProQuest
SPORTDiscus
SpringerLink
Synthesis
Taylor & Francis
Virtual Journals
Web of Science
Wiley Interscience

THE USE OF IMPORT FILTERS

This process is slightly more involved than the direct export process. It involves the following steps:

searching a database
marking the records you want to save
saving these records in a text file (i.e. a file with the extension .txt)
importing the text file into your EndNote library, using the required filter, as illustrated:

The table below indicates which of our Library databases allow you to save results in a format which can be imported into your EndNote library using a filter, and contains instructions on how to do so for each of these.

Where the import process requires a filter that is not supplied with EndNote, the required filter is made available for you to download. Downloaded filters should be saved on your computer in C:\Program Files\EndNote X\Filters

Database	Instructions	Filter
ACM Digital Library
AGIS Plus Text
ARCH-BUILD
Art Index	available soon…
ASFA 3	available soon…
Books@Ovid
Cochrane Library
Design & Applied Arts Index
Emerald
Expanded Academic
FSTA	available soon…
Get-it
Institute of Physics	available soon…
Legal Periodicals Full Text
LLBA
Meditext
PEDro
PsycBooks
PubMed
SCANFile	available soon…
SciFinder Scholar
Water Resources Abstracts

THE USE OF CONNECTION FILES

Connection files allow you to connect to library catalogues or databases from within your EndNote library, and search and retrieve references from them directly into your EndNote library.

You can view the connection files available in EndNote by selecting Edit | Connection Files | Open Connection Manager. You should be aware, however, that most of these will be of little use to you, because you can only use a connection file to search an open access catalogue or database, or a database to which our Library has a subscription. Furthermore, when searching via a connection file, you are limited to the EndNote search interface, which won't offer the more advanced search options that would be available to you if you were to seach the database or catalogue directly.

There is a connection file available in EndNote X for searching NEWCAT. Instructions are provided below. Other connection files which you might find useful are those for the British Library, Library of Congress, CSIRO Library, and other Australian university library catalogues.

Using the NEWCAT connection file