Import Bibliographic Records From EndNote Database

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Import Bibliographic Records From EndNote Database - August 5, 2004

Click here to see detailed instruction for EndNote 3,4,5,6 users.

If you are a EndNote user and want to try out Biblioscape's advanced features, you can easily transfer your bibliographic records from a EndNote database to a Biblioscape database. Follow the steps below to make the transfer.

Warning: You should avoid importing all of your EndNote records into a single folder if there are several thousands or more of them. It will result in slow performance when opening this large folder. You can break up the export file and import the smaller files to different folders.

1. Start EndNote and click the menu command "Edit | Output Styles | Open Style Manager...". Then make sure the box before "EndNote Export" item is checked. Now close the EndNote Styles window.

2. Now export the references as a text file. Click the menu command "File | Export...". Select "Text File (*.txt)" in the "Save as type" combo box, and give a file name. Click the "Save" button. The records will be exported as a text file in REFER format.

3. Start Biblioscape. Create a folder for the imported records if you wish. Click the menu command "File | Import...". Click the "Browse" button and select the file you just exported from EndNote. On the "Tagged" tab, select "EndNote -- Refer" (or "Refer (EndNote)" in earlier versions) as the "Import filter", then click the "Start" button to import the records.

4. Once the importing process is finished, your imported records will be shown in the folder you selected.

Note: If you have customized EndNote reference types, then both EndNote's export style and Biblioscape's import filter have to be adjusted accordingly. For example, if you added a customized field called "Institution" as "Tertiary Title" for "Journal Article" in EndNote, you have to edit the "REFER.ENS" style file by adding an extra export field "TT" to map "Tertiary Title" to "Journal Article". Then you must edit the Biblioscape import filter for "Refer (EndNote)" to map tag "TT" to "Tertiary Title".
---This note is contributed by our user Michael Shalev, thanks.

Note: Since EndNote version 8 (8, 9, 10), text files exported from EndNote are encoded in Unicode (UTF-8). Since the current release of Biblioscape does not support Unicode, special characters like German umlauts cannot be imported correctly. You need to open the EndNote exported file with Windows NotePad first and then go to "File | Save As" and change the encoding to ANSI.