LibGuides: EndNote Online: Adding references from PubMed, Clinical Trials

Adding references from PubMed, Clinical Trials

PubMed and Medline

The content available on the PubMed platform is essentially that found on Ovid Medline. Ovid Medline is recommended for its clearly structured approach and direct links to full text of articles subscribed via FindIt@Bham. Note that for institutional users, PubMed can now be connected by locating your institution via Login - more logins on the PubMed home page and connecting to your institutional account (University of Birmingham for UoB staff and students). This should then enable full-text links via the FindIt@Bham icon.

For more details, see the PubMed page of our Literature searching guide

PubMed can also be searched directly from within EndNote Online - see the next tab in this page for information. This depends however on successfully establishing a link from EndNote Online to PubMed.

If a PubMed search is being carried out on the platform itself, results can be downloaded for importing into Endnote Online.

Search

First, locate PubMed (on FindIt@Bham) and open
The Advanced Search screen allows for more search options
Carry out a search, connecting terms with AND as appropriate
Select the results you wish to save (tick boxes for each) and select "Send to"
Choose Citation Manager to generate a file for download
Create File to download an .nbib file to desktop or preferred location

Searching on PubMed

For a set of FAQs and information, see the PubMed User Guide page

In EndNote Online

Go to Collect - Import Reference
Choose file - locate the downloaded file
Import option - look for PubMed (NLM): if you have already added some of the import options to a Favourites area, add PubMed (NLM) to these favourites
Choose the group in EndNote Online where you want to send results, then Import
Go to My References (top left) and locate the chosen group to view the imported results. If you did not choose a specific group, look in the Unfiled area: you should then move the results to an existing or new group to make it easier to identify references you may import later

Online search in Endnote Online - PubMed

The following instructions depend on successfully establishing the link between EndNote Online and the PubMed platform. This is not guaranteed and this method is not the recommended options.

Note that a search can instead be carried out direct on the PubMed platform and results downloaded as a file from there, for import into EndNote Online. See the previous tab on this page.

It is essential to transfer any results found and required to a Group, or these will be lost on exiting Endnote Online.

In EndNote Online, go to Collect – Online search

Select PubMed from the drop-down list, and Connect
Use the template to set up and perform a search on PubMed from within Endnote Online
Select the required results and use the Add to group function to choose the Endnote Online Group required

This method of searching PubMed through EndNote Online does abbreviate the journal titles, as required by the Vancouver style. However, if using a different style such as Harvard, the abbreviated titles will need to be amended to show the full-length versions.

Clinical Trials

NB: this relates to the major US clinical trials registry site clinicaltrials.gov.

In clinicaltrials.gov, first locate the trial(s) required.
In the List screen, tick to save the details of each trial required.

3.Then go to the Saved Studies screen from the link button.
4. Look for the Download option.

5. In the drop-down, choose ‘All Available Columns’, or ‘Displayed Fields’. In ‘select file format’, choose ‘Plain text.’

6. Download the file.
7. In EndNote Online, go to Collect – Import References.
8. Locate the downloaded file and choose the Import Option ‘ClinicalTrials’. You may need to go to ‘Select Favorites’ to locate ‘ClinicalTrials’ and copy it to your Favorites.
9. Choose an existing group, New Group or just ‘Unfiled’.

10. Then import the file. If it is in the ‘Unfiled’ area, you should transfer it to an existing or new named group at this stage.
11. Check the details saved and add any further information as required.