Can't find any articles on PubMed (NLM)

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Hi,

I suddenly cannot find any articles on PubMed  (NLM) when I type in Author and year, when I know there should be hundreds of articles under these entries.  It suddenly stopped working.  However, I can still find things in other online databases via Endnote X3.  Is there connection problem to PubMed?

Thanks,

puzzled 

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Just some questions:

 1. After searching and downloading the PubMed references into EndNote did you select all the references then applied the  “Find Full Text” command?

  1. Did you try downloading and using a new PubMed connection file from EndNote in the event the one you’re using has been corrupted? Go to: http://www.endnote.com/support/enconnections.asp

  2. Did you try repeating the search/retrieval at a later time in the even the article search/retrieve was a PubMed issue?

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Hi CrazyGecko,

" 1. After searching and downloading the PubMed references into EndNote did you select all the references then applied the  “Find Full Text” command?"

I can’t even download the PubMed references into EndNote.  “No matches references found,” is what I get when I do a search for articles I know I’ve retrieved via Pubmed before, because that’s how they got into my endnote library.

“2. Did you try downloading and using a new PubMed connection file from EndNote in the event the one you’re using has been corrupted? Go to: http://www.endnote.com/support/enconnections.asp”

Yes, I downloaded a list of thousands of connections and replaced my former ones with them in the EndNote/Connections folder.

“3. Did you try repeating the search/retrieval at a later time in the even the article search/retrieve was a PubMed issue?”

Yes, I just tried it again, and same “No matching references found.”  I’m certain that PubMed has these articles, since that’s how they ended up in my library.

Thanks for replying,

puzzled

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Hi CrazyGecko,

It suddenly started working again!  Must be some sort of connection issue…

(still) puzzled

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Just a note that you probably don’t want “thousands” of connections as this can affect performance of the Endnote program. Just keep the small number of “connections” (and falters and particularly somewhere  between100-350 or so styles) in your program folder and My documents folder and just keep the others in a “storage folder” if you really think you might need one. 

 

 uzzled replied: 

 

"2. Did you try downloading and using a new PubMed connection file from EndNote in the event the one you’re using has been corrupted? Go to: http://www.endnote.com/support/enconnections.asp"

 

Yes, I downloaded a list of thousands of connections and replaced my former ones with them in the EndNote/Connections folder.