Date accessed for Web page citations lost when exported as RIS and imported to Endnote X!
Hi everyone
Does anyone know why the accessed date for citations created from Web pages in Zotero do not transfer across to Endnote X1 when exported in RIS format? All the other information (title of site, date of article, url, abstract and notes) comes across fine but when I view the record in Endnote there is no date accessed. I can add it manually but that is frustrating when importing large numbers of records and the date is already saved in Zotero. I tried exporting in other output styles but none of those worked either and RIS format is importing more accurately than any other format except for the access date.
Many thanks
Denise
Does anyone know why the accessed date for citations created from Web pages in Zotero do not transfer across to Endnote X1 when exported in RIS format? All the other information (title of site, date of article, url, abstract and notes) comes across fine but when I view the record in Endnote there is no date accessed. I can add it manually but that is frustrating when importing large numbers of records and the date is already saved in Zotero. I tried exporting in other output styles but none of those worked either and RIS format is importing more accurately than any other format except for the access date.
Many thanks
Denise
Andrew
TY - ELEC
AU - Leeuw, Hans
TI - Electrumpet
Y2 - March 19, 2009
N1 - Electrumpet
N1 - trumpet sensing power point presentation
Y2 - March 19
UR - http://cnmat.berkeley.edu/event/2008/07/24/trumpet_sensing
ID - 47
ER -
But I am looking to go the other way. It looks like the access dates aren't exported from Zotero. My apologies if this all seems basic and has been covered. I did a search of the archives before my initial post but didn't come across the solution.
Andrew
Sorry for the delay in replying. The only things I have entered for that reference (Web Page) in Endnote are :
Access Year
2009
Access Date
March 19
Cheers,
Andrew
Sorry for the delay - things got busy at work in between. Thanks to all those who replied. It looks like there is no solution given RIS doesn't support the accessed date? I can't find any other export formats that are working in endnote.
A shame - it would make things a lot quicker if the date accessed imported into endnote.
Thanks everyone for the suggestions
Denise
My Zotero reference, when exported to Endnote, doesn't retain the accessed date in the Refer/BibIX export file (txt) when exported.
In Endnote, when I export a file into Refer/BibIX that includes an accessed date in the Endnote record, it tags that field with %N. When I import that into Endnote, however, it doesn't import it into the accessed date field.
If I import a Refer/BibIX text file witha field tagged %N back into Endnote, that imports fine.
If I export out of Endnote a record with an accessed date into Zotero, and then re-export back into Endnote, I also lose the accessed date field.
Would be grateful for any help with this mystery!
Is "When I import that into Endnote, however..." supposed to read "When I import that into Zotero, however..."?
Otherwise I don't understand
If you are able to round-trip the data in Endnote (as it sounds like you sometimes are), it'd be useful to know what item types do and do not export the access date.
[Conversely, if the access date is not retained by Endnote when it is imported back in, there's nothing Zotero can do to get around this inherent limitation of both the Refer format and of EndNote.]
EndNote seems to be making data that does not conform to the Refer/BibIX specification. This may or may not let them work-around the spec's limitations, but I don't know if it really ideal that Zotero should also produce "bad data that works with some applications."
If that works, would be nice to add to the import/export support.
What a bummer. I'm not really sure that I've covered all the bases but it would seem to be an issue with the Zotero side of things on export.
Any help would be awesome. Anything to avoid using Word is great. :))
Peace