Whenever I export from Medline (on Ovid), the Year field in the EndNote record is blank. All other fields seem to export normally. I’m running EndNote X5 on Windows XP, and the same thing happens in both Firefox and Internet Explorer. Other databases on Ovid seem to be working fine. A colleague at my institution has replicated the issue.
When searching for similar issues, I’ve only been able to find references to a problem with older versions of EndNote, where the year would not appear if the article was published in 2010. I’ve tested a variety of years, with the same result each time.
Does this happen to anyone else? Thanks for your time.
I tried exporting to RIS instead of directly to EndNote. Now the year is exported, but journal articles are exported as Web Pages. The journal title shows up in the Notes field.
I’ve tested this on different computers at my institution, always with the same results.
I’m at the same institution, but I’ve tested on computers at home as well. I get the same results using the April 2011 filter with EndNote X4.0.2 and X5 on Windows 7 with Internet Explorer and Firefox.
(edited my original message to include the final solution from another part of this thread!)
“As you export from Medline, select ‘complete reference’ under ‘select fields to display’.” this appears to have solved the problem for users later in this thread.
Have you sorted this issue? We have the same issue with one of our users who is using Endnote X5 on her PC at home. She has tried downloading a new filter and that hasn’t worked. She has also sent me a text file and it appears to be in order with the year listed in the source field. Whenever I try it on my own PC at work it works absolutely fine. I’ve contacted adept scientific support but they have so far been unable to identify the problem also, so if anyone has found a solution I’d be very pleased to hear it as the user is now getting very frustrated.
A colleague has found a fix for this in the Endnote manual… as you export from endnote, select ‘complete reference’ under ‘select fields to display’. This has solved the problem for us, maybe it will work for you too?
