Chem Abstracts Online with EndNote

CONVERTING SEARCH RESULTS
TO A REFERENCE DATABASE
WITH EndNote/EndLink

EndNote Plus is an "enhanced reference database and bibliography maker". It is a database manager--specializing in storing, managing, and searching for bibliographic references in your private reference library. It is also a bibliography maker--it builds lists of cited works automatically. It can be used to insert citations into word processing documents and later scan these documents for in-text citations to compile a bibliography, in any format needed. [From the manual]

• Launch EndNote by double-clicking on the EndNote Plus 2.0.1 icon. The program is on the Chemistry Department server and can be accessed by using Chooser in the Apple Menu. Select AppleShare, College Center EtherTalk as the ethernet zone, and mcmuym as the server name. A dialog box will appear that asks for your LOGINID and PASSWORD for access to this server. Select the Dept Resources server (which is really a folder on Mark Muysken's desktop computer). EndNote is found in the EndNote Plus folder.
  
  
• Begin to construct a new reference library with the File, New... command. A dialog box will appear where you can name your new library and place it in a specific directory. There is much that EndNote Plus can do. For example, you can manually type in references. At this point we will focus on importing the references obtained CAS Online search from the previous page.
  
  
• It is wise to import new references into a new library and later merge them into your working reference library. So with the new library open, use the File, Import... command. A dialog box will appear asking for the name of the import file. You should choose the file that you captured in the previous Telnet session. Use the EndLink 2.0 option. Hit the Import button. Another dialog box will appear, prompting you for the Filter File. We want the Filter File for Chemical Abstracts. Using the pulldown menu for choosing directories, you should choose desktop, then double-click on the following choices as they appear in the file menu: Dept Resources, EndNote Plus, EndLink Filters Collection, STN, CA (STN). Once you double-click on CA (STN) or hit the Open button, the importing will begin.
  
  
• EndLink is smart enough to skip over any lines in the captured Telnet session file that it does not understand, so only results of the CAS Online DISPLAY command are incorporated into the database.
  
  
• Here is what the new library window ought to look like after the CAS Online search results have been imported into the library.
  
  
• If you have never used EndNote before, double-click on one of the entries to see how the bibliographic information is stored in the database. Here is a sample reference.