I’m surprised no one has asked this before. I need to keep regular tabs on 400 (!) researchers. Unfortunately, some of them are named Yang or Smith. It just doesn’t make sense that I would have to pick through a few hundred citations every month when these researchers confine themselves to well-defined areas of study. I should be able to say: “Smith AND ankylosing spondylitis AND vitamin D.”
EndNote X3 limits me to 10 “OR” statements, meaning if I could fit a single researcher on a single line, I could potentially reduce the number of searches I do each month from 400 to 40. I know it’s possible to put together 400 canned searches, but is this really the only option???
Here’s an example search that does not work: [Brillon+AND+[glycemic+OR+cholinergic]]
Well, we have asked T&R to have AND, OR, NOT boolean search for single line search in Endnote (see Suggestion board), but current version still doesn’t have it. Also, we have asked regular expression and wild card functions, but those things are also not yet available.
I do what you are doing, pretty much setting up canned search in Pubmed, and save the MEDLINE export text file, then import them using MEDLINE filter. Search “within Endnote using connection file” is somewhat hampered, as you’ve already found out.