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hi guys

I am working with this endnote program.

problem1

I want the author field display only the last author in the library window. is there a way to do so? as you know, the last author is usually the coresponding author, at least in biomedical papers. I think it is more informative than the first author or just display all authors in the field.

problem 2

when I want to create a group in my library, I find that I need 2 steps. first search my library, drag what I want. Then search my online database, drag what I want. And I must let endnote automatically discard duplicate references when doing so.

so is there a more convenient way to do so?

sorry for my bad English.

if you can understand, please tell me how.

grateful to you answers.

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No way I can think of.  If corresponding authors were reliably identified in Pubmed or other databases, than Endnote might be able to extract the specific Author (but sometimes it is “authors”) and put it (but what if it were “them”?) in a separate field  which you could then choose to display.  Maybe it is buried somewhere, but a quick look at pubmed, didn’t reveal any annotation I could interprete as corresponding authors. 

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thank you for your reply

as you say, I get most of my reference from Pubmed

I fully understand that there is no good way to identify coresponding authors.

but I think showing the last author is a convenient way.

I checked the preference settings

there is way to show the first author, all the authors.

Like I have no way to let the last author show in a field?

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No.  And to be very honest, I prefer to be able to distinguish papers based on their first authors.  They deserve the credit due to them! 

You can always do searches and create groups (and even smart groups in X2). 

You can also try to leverage the subject bibliography, but this is of limited use, as it really only allows one to export a bibliography based on a specific author or other field.   It would be nice if one could select and display the records easily from subject bibliography list, and either convert to a smart group or edit them there, to globally fix inconsistencies, such as initials with and without full stops, etc.  But these are conversations for suggestions I guess!:wink:

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thank you again

I have to say I prefer to show the last author do not mean that I do not have respect for the first author.

just because it is easier to trace work from the same Lab.

I really hope endnote later version would include this feature.

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Most reliable way to register that with them is via the website. Putting it in the suggestions part of the forum might also help, generating “me too” responses in support. 

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I just noticed problem 2.  What version of endnote are you using?  X2 has smart groups which should update a group based on your search parameters, elimating the need to keep dragging.  

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Oh you are very patient.

I am using endnote x2, and have upgrade to 12.0.1

I check the smart group feature, solved part of my problem, thank you.

maybe I am not expressing myself well.

I usually work with only one library.

there are about 1 thousand papers in that

when I try to focus on something new

I build a new group

there are old papers already in my library that I may want to put in

and new ones that I must retrieve from online database

the problem is that when I search the online database

there may be some paper that already in my library

that results in duplicate records.( I know there is a way to delete them, but that is another tedious job)

smart group do solve my problem when the new group is based on search strategy ,but it is not always the case.

To avoid duplicate records

now I must let endnote discard duplicated ones automatically

which means I have to research my library after that to get the discarded ones.

hope you can understand that.

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Sadly I found that the automatically discard duplicates setting do not work in

the “online search mode(temporary library)” window.

now how can I retrieve references from online database without introducing duplicates?

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understand you perfectly.

Yes, duplicate handling in X2 was a step backwards.  I always first bring general search results into a true “temporary” library and then import that temporary library into my main library and to be sure I don’t throw out a new reference with more information than the existing reference, I sometimes keep the duplicates by choosing to export them to the duplicates library. A bit tedious, but it keeps my library neater. 

If duplicates do escape into my library, I do the duplicates search and make those into a group and then check them one by one, deleting the one I don’t want.

To create the “temporay library” I always let endnote create the new library with the default name and location, and tell it "yes, you can discard the references already in “MyEndnoteLibrary.enl”. 

Message Edited by Leanne on 05-26-2009 08:42 AM

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I understand you perfectly.

Yes, duplicate handling in X2 was a step backwards.  I always first bring general search results into a true “temporary” library and then import that temporary library into my main library and to be sure I don’t throw out a new reference with more information than the existing reference, I sometimes keep the duplicates by choosing to export them to the duplicates library. A bit tedious, but it keeps my library neater. 

If duplicates do escape into my library, I do the duplicates search and make those into a group and then check them one by one, deleting the one I don’t want. 

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thank you.

I understand now that endnote is a good bibliographic tool for writing.

but not yet a convenient tool for managing reference