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Importing References from PubMed

Follow the steps below to download your search results from the PubMed Web site and to import them into your EndNote library.

1. Go to the PubMed Web site in your Web browser at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed.

2. In the Search field, enter your search criteria to execute your search. Click the Search button.

3. Select the needed results and then select File from the "Send to" menu.

4. Select MEDLINE from the "Format" menu.
   
   Note: If you select Citation Manager from the "Send to" menu, then you can export your selected PubMed records directly to EndNote. See "PubMed" under the Information column in Direct Export Providers for more information about this feature.

5. Select a sort order from the "Sort by" menu. The default sort order is Recently Added.

6. Click the Create File button. This will bring up a dialog box allowing you to save your selected references as a text file.

7. Click the Save button to save the file to your computer. Save the file somewhere easily accessible such as your desktop. The default file name is pubmed_results.txt. You may change the file name, but we recommend saving the file with the .txt extension.

8. In EndNote, open the library where you would like to save these references.

9. From the File menu, select Import > File to open a dialog box.

10. Click the Choose button, and then select the downloaded pubmed_result.txt file from your PC.

11. In the Import Option field, select Other Filters, and then select the import filter called PubMed (NLM) from the Choose an Import Filter dialog.

12. Do not select any options from the Duplicates and Text Translation fields.

13. Click the Import button to import your references.

14. Look in your Groups column to see a new group called Imported References. All the references that you downloaded from PubMed will appear in this group.

Note: Many information providers have Web sites that include a direct export option that allows you to send copies of references directly to an EndNote library. See Direct Export Providers for information about this feature relating to the PubMed Web site.

Note: In step 7, if you have a popup blocker enabled, such as the one that comes by default from Windows XP Service Pack 2, you may need to disable the popup blocker temporarily to allow the PubMed Web site to send you the file.

Dear Dr Mahdizadeh
Thanks a lot for your quick and useful answer.