360 Search: import your results into EndNote

If you happen to use 360 Search, which enables you to search several (but not all!) databases at once, your 360 Search results can be easily imported into EndNote.

360 Search is available via the QUT Library homepage – access it via the Quick Article Search section on the left-hand-side of the QUT Library homepage.

If you use Internet Explorer as your web browser, follow the steps below.

1) Do your 360 Search
2) Select required records
3) Choose the option to Export/Save results
4) Choose In a format compatible with EndNote, Procite etc.
5) Click Export
6) The exported records open in your browser. Click Save records.
7) Click Open (in the File download box) EndNote will launch and ask which library you want to put the record/s in.

If you are using Mozilla Firefox as your web browser follow the steps below.

1) Do your 360 Search
2) Select required records
3) Choose the option to email results
4) Choose Compatible with EndNote, Procite etc.
5) Fill in your name, email address and Subject
6) Wait for the email. It should come with an attachment called results.ris
7) Save attachment somewhere you can find it (e.g, Desktop). (You could change results.ris to “whatever your search is about.ris”) Open Endnote and go to File and Import
9) Select your saved search file as the input file
10) Choose the import option RefMan RIS and click Import

Firefox add-on: add EndNote Spark to your web browser

Most of us are aware of Firefox as a popular alternative, standards-compliant Web browser.  Firefox is also open-source.  A direct advantage to using this open-source browser is that there is an active community of developers who are constantly offering improvements.  Instead of making us wait for a new version of the browser, Firefox uses “Add-ons” to promote constant innovation.There is a very useful Firefox extension to Endnote that allows you to seamlessly download a webpage citation from the Internet (Firefox Brower) to Endnote. To add the Endnote Add-on to Firefox:

• In Firefox, go to Tools/Add-ons

• In a new window click on Get Extensions

• In the Search box of the Firefox Add-ons web-page type Endnote and download Endnote Add-on.

• Once you’ve installed it in FireFox, search the Internet, open web-page of your interest, go to Tools/Endnote, select Endnote Current Browser Text Export, then follow the prompts to download seamlessly the citation (or entire text) for the web-cite into Endnote software.

If you are using a computer that does not have Endnote software installed on it, follow the same pathway and save the citation to e.g. your USB. To import the citation/citations you have saved into Endnote:

• Open Endnote/File/Import

• For the Import Data File select the file you have saved, and for Import Option select Reference Manager (RIS)

• Click Import.

The citation will appear in your Endnote Library.