Can't save EndNote as "text only" when trying to import to Zotero

shirashm

Hi,
I followed the guidelines explaining how to export from EndNote to Zotero: "In the Export window that pops up, choose “Text Only”, select the RIS output style immediately below “Text Only” in the dialog, and hit “Save.”"
When trying to save the EndNote file, I have the choice between: text file (bxt) rich text format (rtf). I tried both, and neither is accepted by Zotero when I try to import.
What should I do?
thanks!

adamsmith

text file sounds right. Save it, open it in a text editor and post the first entry (from TY - to ER - ) here.

shirashm

It's working, thanks!

adamsmith

you export the file from endnote. You'll have a file like exportedItems.bxt (or .txt, which is what I'd assume).
Then you open that file with Notepad - I think right click--> open with... should work, else you can open Notepad, select Open from the file menu and open the file.
Then you select the first entry, copy it (ctrl+c) and paste it into the "enter your comments" window here (ctrl+v).

ceciliasp

Hi! I´ve done as said in the export from endnote tutorial. I have my exporteditems.txt file and tried to import it to zotero. I can see a new folder y my zotero libraries, but no item is showed...
The info in the txt file says as it follows:

TY - JOUR
AN - 6111053
DA - Oct
ET - 1980/10/01
KW - *Community Health Nursing/education
Congresses as Topic
Education, Nursing, Continuing
*Primary Health Care
Spain
LA - spa
M1 - 15
N1 - Congresses
Spain
Nueva enfermeria
Nueva Enferm. 1980 Oct;(15):16-8.
OP - Primer Congreso de Atencion Primaria de Salud y Enfermeria en la Comunidad. Las razones de un congreso.
PY - 1980
SN - 0210-8275 (Print)
SP - 16-8
ST - [1st Congress for Primary Health Care and Community Nursing. Reasons for a congress]
T2 - Nueva Enferm
TI - [1st Congress for Primary Health Care and Community Nursing. Reasons for a congress]
UR - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=6111053
ID - 77
ER -


Any help you could provide would be very usefull

Thanks!

adamsmith

that should work. Try selecting this above in your post, copy (using right-click--> copy or ctrl+c) and then select import from clipboard.
If that works for this item, split up your exporteditems file into smaller chunks and try to narrow down what doesn't work.

Also, check your recently added items in Zotero (you can sort the center panel by date added) to see if not, in fact, some items were imported.

ceciliasp

Thanks, Adam. I did as you said but (importing from clipboard) and I could only retrieve this item:TI - [1st Congress for Primary Health Care and Community Nursing. Reasons for a congress]
But I could not see the rest.
I also sorting items by date but I could not get them either....
How could I export them from endnote by smaller chunks?

Thanks again

adamsmith

Sorry - I don't understand what you mean by this:

Thanks, Adam. I did as you said but (importing from clipboard) and I could only retrieve this item:TI - [1st Congress for Primary Health Care and Community Nursing. Reasons for a congress]

You get one item or you're getting it incompletely?
I don't know how to export smaller chunks from Endnote, but you can import smaller chunks simply by splitting the RIS file up (make sure you always split after the end of a record i.e. after ER -)
or you can work with the clipboard import and select parts of the file.

ceciliasp

I've tried copying and pasting each line of the file I pasted above and I got the messege "Not supported format".
For instance, I copied and pasted the followinf line:

TY - JOUR

and I got that msg.... I'm I doing it alright? Sorry for being so anoying... I'm and absolute ignorant at this things... but I'm really willing to learn! hehehe

DWL-SDCA

You are not annoying, merely inexperienced.

Zotero will not accept things one line at a time.

Within your text edit application : You need to copy everything ( all the lines of text) beginning with the "T" of the first TY all the way through the "-" of the "ER -" line.

Then using Zotero, click on the gear button and from the drop-down menu, select Import from Clipboard.

edit:

Everything between the line beginning with TY - JOUR and the "ER -" is information about a single journal article. You do not need to copy and import these one at a time. After you have one article in Zotero you can select and copy many lines (again, from the TY line to the final "ER -" line) and import them into Zotero.

If the import process fails to bring in all of the articles, there may be a problem with one of the parts of one of the records (the stuff between TY - and the ER -). If that happens, try the import by copying fewer TY ER - chunks.

ceciliasp

Ok, I think I'm starting to understand how this works.
The problem I see now is that the file containing the exported items only has ONE item....There should be almost a 100!
As far as I can see, when I open the exporteditems.txt file I only see one set of lines begining whith TY and ending with ER wich is afterwards the only item I see at zotero when importing it.
So I think the problem is happening during the export process because I'm getting only one record exported...any idea of what I might be doing wrong?

adamsmith

sorry, that'd be a question for the endnote forum and/or support.

DWL-SDCA

Within EndNote you must select/indicate all of the records that you want to export. I haven't used EndNote in years so I cannot help you directly but a quick Google search gave me:

In addition to the Zotero support page
http://www.zotero.org/blog/making-the-switch-to-zotero/

There are other suggestions

YouTube video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-J3rSTXqJ8

there are other videos--

Google the phrase "export from endnote to zotero youtube"

ceciliasp

hahaha... all this time thinking I was a wierd case and the problem was that I hadn't selected all the items.
Thanks to everyone that helped.
Maybe this post can be helpfull for those rookies like me in the future. So happy I can enjoy zotero now!

By the way, while I was dealing with this problem my windows installation crashed so I decided to run 100% ubuntu!
I'm so happy I could finally make the decission!!!
I feel free hehehehe.
Thanks
Cecilia
Argentina