Database guide: ISI Web of Knowledge
Direct Export for Windows
Problems using Direct Export from ISI databases have been reported by users of Firefox and EndNote 7. Try Internet Explorer instead.
Medline ISI - In EndNote 7 the Direct Export to Endnote option does not bring across page numbers and subject headings. An filter file has been created and is available from the University of Melbourne EndNote page http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/endnote/filters.html#filter. Download the filter and use the “saving & importing” instructions below.
Method 1 - Records all on one page
- Use check boxes to mark records you would like to collect.
- In the box on the right hand side of the Search Results Summary Window, under the heading Output Records, specify Selected Records, All records on page, or Records - to -
- Change Bibliographic Fields to Bibliographic + Abstract from pull-down list
- Click on the EXPORT button. This will activate the EndNote program.
- Select your EndNote library - records are automatically loaded into your EndNote library and will appear in an interim window.
- From the References menu select Show All to amalgamate references into your library.
Tip: it is possible to increase the number of records displayed in the Search Results Summary Window. Above the list of individual records, in the pull-down list, change Show 10 per page to Show 25 or 50 per page.
Method 2 - Records over a number pages
- Use check boxes to mark records you would like to collect.
- Before moving to the next page, click on Add to Marked List button. This is found in the box on the right hand side of the Search Results Summary Window, under the heading Output Records.
- Move to the next page and mark additional records. Click on Add to Marked List button.
- When you have marked all of your records click on the Marked List button at the top of the Search Results Summary Window.
- From the Marked Records screen, select the fields to include in the output. Author, Title and Source are already selected. It is useful to select Abstract as well.
- Then select an output option. Click on the Export to Reference to Software button. This will activate the EndNote program. Select your EndNote library.
- Records are automatically loaded into your EndNote library and will appear in an interim window.
- From the References menu select Show All to amalgamate references into your library.
Saving and importing records for Windows
- Use check boxes to mark records you would like to keep
- Click “Add to marked list”
- Click “Marked List” button at top of screen
- Select fields that you would to download (e.g. abstract, keywords, author addresses)
- Click “Save to file”
- Follow prompts to save records as a text file and name file the file so you will recognise it
- Open your EndNote Library
- From the File menu bar select Import
- Click “Choose file” and browse to find and select the file of downloaded records
- From the “Import option” drop down list choose “other filters’
- Click “Find” and select ISI
- Highlight the relevant filter file, eg Web of Science, and click Choose. (Note: If there is no specific filter for a database, eg INSPEC or CAB Abstracts, choose Connect Conts Connect)
- Click Import.
Saving and importing records for Mac
- Conduct a search and mark the records.
-On the right hand side, click save.
-When the “Save options’ window appears, select “field tagged”, then continue/save. - The file should then save to desktop as a text file (savedrecs.txt)
- Open EN, and the appropriate library.
- Go to file/import.
- Under “Import options’ you need to select “Other filters’ and search for the appropriate filter, e.g “Web of Science (ISI).enf. Highlight and choose.
- Leave Duplicates set to “Import all”, and Text translation set to “No translation”.
- Click Import.
- The records should now import into the EN library. Check that all fields have filed across correctly; if not, manually edit.
- To see the rest of the library, References/show all references.
If you have set up an email auto alert from ISI Web of Knowledge, use the Web of Knowledge filter (WoK Alert.enf (ISI)). Download the filter from: http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/endnote/filters.html
Emailing and importing records
- Use check boxes to mark records you would like to keep
- Click “Add to marked list”
- Click “Marked List” button at top of screen
- Select fields that you would to download (e.g. abstract, keywords, author addresses)
- Follow prompts to send references to your email address
- When the email arrives save it as a text file - do not make any changes to the file
- Open your EndNote Library
- From the File menu bar select Import
- Click “Choose file” and browse to find and select the text file
- From the “Import option” drop down list choose “other filters’
- Click “Find” and select ISI
- Highlight the relevant filter file, eg Web of Science, and click Choose. (Note: If there is no specific filter for a database, eg INSPEC or CAB Abstracts, choose Connect Conts Connect)
- Click Import.
Medline note
The journal titles in Medline are abbreviated, therefore they import/export into Endnote in abbreviated form. The Medline/PubMed databases use the Index Medicus abbreviations assigned by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), and are sometimes known as the “NLM abbreviations" or “Medline abbreviations".
EndNote can cope with the problem of journal abbreviations by means of its term lists. It is possible to import ready-made term lists into your EndNote library. The University of Queensland Library has produced a medical journals term list which is based on a list of 9,000 journals prepared by the makers of the EndNote software, augmented by a further 500 titles which have begun publication in recent years:
http://www.library.uq.edu.au/faqs/endnote/medical_journal_titles_6.html