Problems with Find Full Text

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Yes it appears to be broken again.  (see here) and I recommend there that we users identify the specific journals.  I have problems with some sciencedirect journals but not others.  But we need to let the developers know, I guess which ones. 

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Here is the start of a list:

  1. Chemistry and biology

  2. Current opinion in structural biology

  3. Tetrahedron

  4. Biochimie

  5. Bioorganic and medicinal chemistry letters

  6. Biochemical and biophysical research communications

  7. Structure

  8. Current opinion in chemical biology

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Thanks for the reference attachment. 

I am new to Endnote X5 and cannot access the Find Full Text function. Like everyone else, the instructions are very confusing. How can you have such a great product with instructions no one can make sense of? 

I expected them to have full functionality with the release of endnote X5. 

I am still unable to configure it to find full text. My library staff are as clueless as I am. What a pity.

I use the Capella library’s access gateway. Does anyone know how to get this thing to work in my environment?

Please help.

Thank you.

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I contacted ScienceDirect and here is part of what I received back:

“I did read through the community threads that you supplied in your email and I did confirm with our Product Team that the information presented in that thread listed as the official E-Helpdesk reply from Elsevier is correct. Unfortunately, this Find Full Text feature is not a feature that supports the ScienceDirect database. Whether it was Endnote or Elsevier who denied this feature, the end result is the same in that using the Find Full Text will not automatically retrieve ScienceDirect PDFs. As the thread mentions, there was an alternative option introduced with EndNote 3 that allowed the OpenURL resolver to replace the Find Full Text feature. The ScienceDirect Product Team mentioned that for this functionality to work, the OpenURL resolver needs to be configured in such a way that it will not only check for the entitlement in the source database (in this case ScienceDirect) but that it will also retrieve either a direct link to the PDF or a link to the article page. However, then the problem becomes that most OpenURL resolvers are not configured to retrieve this information because this is not a standard functionality.”

I have Open URL working. The downside of this feature relative to FFT is the time it takes to use it. For one article it is fine. For many the times adds up enough to make EndNote cumbersome as *I guess* not only do you have to wait through all the pauses as the database with the pdf is accessed, but you also have to manually connect each endnote entry with each downloaded pdf, one at a time.

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In EndNote X there is a arguments box in which you specify URL syntax when setting up a OpenURL connection (see screen dump). I can’t locate a corresponding  field in EndNote X3. Where can that be found?

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Not sure which one goes where, but there are two sections of the Edit Preferences in endnote that might need this.  One is in “Find Full text” where I put my EZ-proxy link that triggers a login when you want to Find Full Text, and the other in “URLs and Links”, which is more reminiscent of the earlier versions. 

Perhaps someone who knows more can chip in here?