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Welcome to UTS Library's video on exporting from an OVID database to EndNote. The OVID
database we are demonstrating today is Compendex and I'll be exporting to EndNote X7 for Mac.
We'll begin with a search for 'piezoelectric actuators'. I'm not entirely sure what a piezoelectric
actuator is but I guess this is as good a way as any to find out! Here are our results
up here after we've searched - I'll just press display... Okay so here are our results. To
move articles to EndNote check the boxes beside the articles that you like - I'll just choose
1 and 3 for argument's sake - and then go up to the top of your results here and press
this export link. Then, from the export citation option choose your software - EndNote in this
case - and then you can select the sort of information you'd like to have sent to EndNote
and generally this is either just the reference itself or the reference and the abstract.
I'll choose citation+abstract... and then press 'export citations'. Now on this Mac
and on this browser which is Firefox we have to choose the software we'd like to open this
file with. Depending on your computer and your browser this step may vary slightly or
it may be omitted altogether so just bear that in mind. I'm going to have to use 'open
with' and then choose ... and then find EndNote as the software to open this file with. Endnote
X7 open - EndNote X7 open - ok and now we're ready. One option that you may see if you've
got a set up like mine is this 'do this automatically for files like this from now on' option - so
if you check this box you may not have to do this step again. After I press ok EndNote
opens up and here are our references. I'll just maximise this. References that come down
from databases like OVID tend to be of reasonably good quality but it's just worth checking
the odd one from time to time to see if everything's gone into the reference as it should and whether
your preview looks like the kind of reference that you were expecting. That concludes this
tutorial if you have any questions why not use the comment box below the video or ask
us a question via this 'Ask-Us-A-Librarian' page on the UTS Library home page. Thanks
for watching!