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Importing from Specific Databases

Select the database from the list for instructions on how to download citations. Databases not on this list do not currently have an EndNote filter (in which case you will have to input citations into EndNote manually - see Adding References to your EndNote Library). EndNote includes filters for most of these databases; some, however, are not included in the install program. If your EndNote program does not have the appropriate filter, you can download filters from EndNote's Import Filters. 

Database-Specific Instructions
listed by database provider

 

Ebsco

 To Import Records:

includes these databases:

  • America History and Life
  • Art Full Text
  • Art Index Retrospective
  • ATLA Religion Database
  • CINAHL
  • GreenFILE
  • Health and Psychosocial Instruments
  • Historical Abstracts
  • Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective
  • Humanities Full Text
  • LGBT Life
  • Library, Information Science & Technology Abstract (LISTA)
  • Music Index
  • PsycINFO
  • PsycCRITIQUES
  • Readers Guide
  • Religion Database with ATLA Serials
  • RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
  • RIPM International Index to Nineteenth-Century Music Periodicals
  • RISM International Inventory of Music Sources After 1600
  • Social Sciences Full Text

 
  1. Click the "add to folder" for each record you want to send to EndNote.  
  2. Click to see "Folder View" toward the upper right part of the page for a list of all the records you have selected.
  3. In the folder list, click the "Export" option toward the upper right part of the list.
  4. Select the option to "Direct Export in RIS Format" and click to "Save."
  5. Select to "Open with" "EndNote"

 

 

Gale

 To Import Records:

includes these databases:

  • Academic OneFile
  • Expanded Academic
  • General OneFile

 

 

 
  1. Click check boxes to mark desired records.
  2. In the "Saved Documents" box toward the upper right corner, click to "View All."
  3. Under "Tools" in the upper right corner, click "Citation Tools."
  4. Select "EndNote" from the list of options and click to "Expoprt."
  5. Select to "Open with" "EndNote"

 

 

 

ISI Web of Knowledge

 To Import Records:

includes these databases:

  • Arts and Humanities Citation Index
  • BIOSIS Previews
  • INSPEC
  • Science Citation Index 
  • Social Science Citation Index 

 
  1. Mark the records you want to save (click the check icon at the top of the list to add marked records if you want to continue searching and compile a longer list of citations). 
  2. At the top of the list of results, click the "EndNote" option (or click the number beside the saved marked records check box to get a list of all saved records, then click the "EndNote" option)
  3. Follow the steps to dump the citations into an EndNote library. If the option appears, click to "Open" file rather than "Save."

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National Library of Medicine

 To Import Records:

includes these databases:

  • Medline / PubMed

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  1. Mark the records you want to save. 
  2. In the "Send to" pull-down menu (in the upper right corner of the results list), select "Citation manager," Then click to "Create File."
  3. Select to "Open with" EndNote.exe.
  4. In EndNote, select the import filter for "PubMed (NLM)."

 

 

 

OCLC FirstSearch

 To Import Records:

includes these databases:

  • Anthropology Plus
  • ArticleFirst
  • OCLC Electronic Books (Ebooks)

 
  • PapersFirst
  • ProceedingsFirst
  • WorldCat
  • WorldCatDissertations

 
  1. Mark all the records you want to save. 
  2. Click the "export" icon   
    That brings up the Direct Export Records page. 
  3. Click to select "Marked records" and "EndNote", then "export"
  4. This takes you back to EndNote, where you select the library into which you want to export the records and then click to "open" that library. 
  5. Select the appropriate import filter (e.g. WorldCat OCLC) and click to "Choose" that filter. 

 

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ProQuest

 To Import Records:

includes these databases:

  • AGRICOLA
  • Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
  • BioOne
  • British Humanities Index
  • Dissertations & Theses Abstracts Online
  • Dissertations & Theses @ Wesleyan University
  • EconLit
  • Environmental Sciences
  • ERIC
  • Ethnic NewsWatch
  • GenderWatch
  • GeoRef
  • International Bibliography of Art (IBA)
  • International Index to Performing Arts
  • MLA (Modern Language Association) Bibliography
  • PAIS International
  • Philosopher's Index
  • ProQuest Historical Newspapers
  • PsycARTICLES
  • PsycCRITIQUES
  • PsycINFO
  • Social Services Abstracts
  • Sociological Abstracts

 

 
  1. Click check boxes to mark desired records.
  2. Select the "Export/Save" option in the upper right corner of the Results list.
  3. Select the option to Export to "EndNote."
  4. Select to "Open with" "EndNote"

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SciFinder Scholar

 To Import Records:

includes these databases:

  • SciFinder Scholar

 

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  1. Mark the records you want to save. 
  2. Select the Save As button. 
  3. For "File Type," choose "Tagged Format"
  4. Click to "Save." Give the file a name and location you will remember. 
  5. In EndNote, use the SciFinder Scholar (CAS) import filter. 

 

 

Zotero

 To Import Records:

Zotero is a free extension for Mozilla Firefox browsers to collect, manage, and cite sources used. You can use Zotero rather than EndNote to format citations in a Word document, but it is not as versatile as EndNote and may not have the style or flexibility you need. It can also harvest bibliographic information from some web sites EndNote cannot, which can then be transferred to EndNote if you prefer to use EndNote to format a bibliography.

After installing Zotero, if you are on a web site with citations to books, articles, etc, and a folder icon appears in the location bar (where you type in a URL), click the folder for a list of citations Zotero has recognized on the page, then select which records you want to save to Zotero. Once you have saved records in Zotero, you can transfer them to EndNote.

  1. Click the  icon in the lower right corner of your Firefox browser window to access the list of citations in Zotero.
  2. Click the "Actions" icon and select to "Export Library"
  3. Select "Refer/BibIX" as the Format.
  4. Save the file to a location you will remember.
  5. In EndNote, use the "Refer/BibIX" filter as the Import Option to import the file (see After Saving Files from a Specific Database below for details)

 

 

 

 

After Saving Files from a Specific Database

 
  • In EndNote, open the library you wish to import the results into.
  • Choose File from the main tool bar
  • Choose Import. This will bring up the box below. 
  • Click on Choose File to locate the file you saved the references in. 
  • Select the correct Import Option from the pull-down menu; each database has a unique filter file. For a list of filters, click on Other Filters and find the one for the database you saved the references from. Note that you need to know both the name of the database (e.g. Sociological Abstracts or PsycInfo) and the "information provider" which provides our access to the database (e.g. we get Soc Abs from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, and PsycInfo from OVID). 
  • Choose an option from the Duplicates pull-down menu: Import all will import all records. Discard Duplicates will not import references that match ones already in your library. Import into Duplicates Library will import duplicates into a separate library so that you can review them later.
  • Click Import to import the references
  • The imported references will open in a new window so that you can easily review them. To see all your references, choose References from the main tool bar, and choose Show All.

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If there is no filter for your database in the list of filters, go to EndNote's Import Filters page to get a copy of the filter you need. Sort by Database or by Information Provider, then find the database in the list. Make sure you select the correct information provider from which you accessed the database (many databases are available through more than one information provider).  Then click "FTP" to get a copy of the filter; save it in the "Filters" folder in "EndNote." If EndNote does not provide a filter for your database, you will have to input the citations manually.