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The next library class on EndNote will be held on Tuesday, November 17th at 2pm.  Register

Want to add items from Google Scholar to your EndNote library? 

Change one setting and "Import into EndNote" will be added to each item in Google Scholar.  Visit Scholar Preferences and in the Bibliography Manager section select "Show links to export citations into" and choose EndNote from the drop-down menu.  Click "Save Preferences" and you're done.  Next time you search on Google Scholar, you'll see EndNote as an option.

Want to find full-text versions of articles you have in your EndNote library?  You can set up EndNote to use the Caltech Connect window you're used to from article databases.

Set it up:

1. Under the Edit menu, select Preferences, and then the URLs & Links option.
2. Check the box labelled "Enable OpenURL"
3. Paste the following URL into the "OpenURL Path" box: http://sfx.caltech.edu:8088/caltech/
4. In the Arguments box, where it says ISI:WoS, change that to ISI:SFX (but leave everything else alone)

Use it:

1. Select the reference you're interested in.
2. Go to the References menu, and choose URL, then OpenURL Link.
3. Use the Caltech Connect window as usual.
   

If you want to add books from the Caltech Library into your EndNote library, you have a couple of options. 

From within the library catalog find the book you're interested in.  When looking at the screen for that particular book click the "Export" link, then the "Book Cart" link,  then "Export Saved List". Select "End-Note/RefWorks" for the format, choose "Local Disk" for where to send the list to, and click Submit.  You should be prompted by your browser for what to do with the file.  Choose to open it with EndNote and your book will be imported.

Alternatively you can search the library catalog from within EndNote itself.  Find the Online Search section in the Groups display and click on "more...". Our catalog will show up as "Cal Inst of Technology".  With X3 our catalog may not show up by default.  It can be downloaded and then put in the connection Files folder located in Windows at C:\Program Files\EndNote\Connections or Mac OS X at Harddrive: Applications: EndNote: Connections.

Just beware that if you're using Integrated Library & Online Search Mode any books that match your search will be automatically added to your library.  If you use Online Search mode instead, the results of the search will be added to a temporary library and then you need to add any that you want to keep to your real EndNote library.

If search in Pubmed but are sick of needing to export your references to a file and then importing them in EndNote, you might consider searching Medline through Web of Knowledge instead.  Then you'll have the slick "Save to EndNote" button which will import your records without extra steps.

If you want to use the feature to have EndNote try to locate full-text versions for you and you're off-campus, you'll want to use a new feature in X3 that lets you specify Caltech's proxy server.  Under the EndNote Prefereces, on the Find Full Text screen locate the Authenticate with section and put http://clsproxy.library.caltech.edu/login in the URL field.  Then before using References->Find Full Text click on References->Find Full Text->Authenticate and enter your access.caltech username and password.  This should allow EndNote to find text for more of your references.

Anyone with an access.Caltech (formerly IMSS) account can download EndNote for free from the IMSS software page. It's available for Windows and Macintosh.

The current version is X3 for both platforms.

Tutorials created at other institutions. Please ask if you have questions about how to adapt them to Caltech.

Video Tutorial from the University of Buffalo Health Sciences Library on using EndNote with Google Scholar

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