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Use Internet Explorer to open and EndNote Web. Sign in.

Also in Internet Explorer, open Science Direct and search.When searching in ScienceDirect and wishing to export citations, 

1. Mark the items you want with checkmarks. (Note that we have full text access only for items with the little green rectangle. If the little rectangle is white, you can collect the citation for your bibliography, but we don’t have full text access. For this database, if you need full text of an item that shows a little white rectangle, you should immediately order it from Interlibrary Loan.)to send to EndnoteWeb with checkmarks. 

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3. Decide whether you want abstracts included or not. For either choice you will get a citation + link to the URL for whatever we have access to in full text.

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4. Choose RIS format.

5. Click export.

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A little gray pop up will show indicating that x number of references are being exported. Click OK. Image Removed
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6. A  ScienceDirect_citations(...).ris file will download and can be collected in EndnoteWeb. 

Collecting citations into EndnoteWeb from ScienceDirect

1.Next, Open the EndNote window or tab. Look in the My References tab (1) in the left column under “unfiled” (2). Be patient---sometimes it can take a minute or two for your references to import. Once imported, you can mark them and move them to an existing or new folder. Image Removed

2. Select the "Collect" tab and click on "Import References"

3. Choose the ScienceDirect (...).ris file from your download folder

4. Select either "RefMan" or "ScienceDirect" as your "Import Option." If those choices are not in your drop down folder, you will need to get them by clicking "Select Favorites."

5. Select the folder to which you wish to add the citations (or create a new one) and click "Import." 

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Updated 2/22/23 by Margery Ashmum and Reviewed June 14, 2023