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Finding information for Psychology

A guide to help you find information for your Psychology essays, reports and dissertation.

Activity 8a: Adding References from FindIt@Bham

Panopto video from Academic Skills Centre, University of Birmingham (includes subtitles).

1A. Exporting individual results from FindIt

  1. Perform a search on FindIt@Bham
    • Make sure you have signed in to FindIt with your UoB login
  2. Click on the 3 dots at the right of the record
  3. Select EndNote Web in the resulting set of options under the record
  4. EndNote Online will then show on-screen with the header “Primo Import Results” (Primo is the search discovery tool for FindIt)
  5. Then open up EndNote Online to locate the exported reference(s) and transfer these to named groups (see lower down this page)

 

1B. Exporting a set of results

  1. Make sure you are signed into FindIt@Bham with your University login and perform a search
  2. Select the pin icon for each search result you wish to save
  3. This will bookmark the items for your Favourites in FindIt
  4. Go to your Favourites by selecting the pin icon at the top right of the screen
  5. Select each required result by ticking the numbered box to the left of each item, then use the three dots at the top of the My Favourites screen to open the list of options which includes EndNote Web
  6. Select EndNote Web to transfer the results to EndNote Online

 

2. In EndNote Online

  1. Go to [Unfiled] under All My References on the left hand list
  2. Select the record[s] in [Unfiled] and use the ‘Add to group’ function and drop-down menu to transfer the unfiled record to the named group of your choice: if you wish, you can set up and name a new group at that point
  3. Note that you may also need to go into the record and amend the publication date: this can be done by simply clicking on the item title; then go into the template and make the required change(s) and save the record

 

 

Activity 8b: Adding References from Web Of Science

The above Panopto Videos from the Academic Skills Centre, UoB, cover searching on Web of Science and Saving results found there to Endnote Online. They include sub-titles.

Summary 

  • Search Web of Science as normal
  • Mark the records you wish to export
  • Select Export and use the drop-down menu to Save to EndNote Online
  • Or: use Add to Marked List, then go to the Marked List - via the link at the top right of screen - and choose Export then Endnote Online from the drop-down menu there

 

Open up EndNote Online

  • This can be done from Web of Science by selecting Products (top right) then EndNote in the drop-down menu
  • If a named folder has not been selected,EndNote online will store imported references in a folder named Unfiled
  • Locate the references and move them to an existing, or new, named folder
  • Note that if you have EndNote Desktop as well as Online, the results may go straight to Desktop unless Online is specified

Export problems

  • If the export of records from Web of Science does not proceed as it should, try clearing the cache and cookies in the web browser you are using and then exporting.  It may be necessary to re-open Web of Science and perform the search again

Databases hosted on Web of Science

  • WoS is a gateway to a number of different databases: these can also be selected individually, such as Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index
  • Medline is also hosted on the WoS platform - as well as on Ovid - and can be found by going to WoS (All Databases) and selecting Medline from a drop-down list
  • Any of the databases on WoS therefore allow for direct export of results to Endnote Online

Activity 8c: Adding References from Ovid Databases (PsychInfo, Medline etc.)

 

Panopto video from Academic Skills Centre, University of Birmingham (includes sub-titles).

Perform a search on an Ovid database such as Medline.

  1. Choose required references and select Export

  2. In the drop-down menu:

    1. Format: choose Endnote, or RIS: screenshots below

           2. Fields: choose Complete Reference

3. Save the file to desktop or other location

In Endnote Online

  1. Go to Collect - Import References

  2. Find and choose the saved file

  3. Import option:

    • 'Medline (Ovid SP)' if you used Endnote for download format above

    • 'RefMan RIS' if you used RIS 

  4. 'To':

    • Choose an existing Group, name a new group or just 'Unfiled' (then transfer to a named group)

 

Screenshots below of 'Medline (Ovid SP)' and 'RefMan (RIS)' Import options.

In Endnote Online, you may find problems moving the cursor over Collect and then down and across to Import References (the option furthest to the right after Online Search and New Reference).  

The options may seem to disappear if you do not take the cursor slowly down to Online Search then carefully across to Import References.

Instead:

  1. Click on Collect in your Endnote Online screen (without taking the cursor lower down)
  2. This then defaults to Online Search within Collect, but allows the other options to be chosen more easily as they less prone to disappear from the screen, as long as you keep the cursor below
  3. Now click on Import References (to the right of Online Search and New Reference) and proceed from there

 

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