I agree.
Here’s how _ I _ do it. (The hard way?)
- There is an option to “Find Duplicates” under the References Tab , about halfway down.
However, unless there are enough fields filled in, the program doesn’t recognize that they are the same.
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You need to fill in several fields so that the references are similar enough for Endnote to react.
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Once you have filled in several fields, the program asks which reference you want to keep. Essentially throwing out any fields that you haven’t copied over.
Note: I usually begin by selecting two similar files that I DON’T want, getting rid of one, then reselecting another two, etc. leaving the good one (the one with the PDF, in my case) for last…
Please, Clarivate , get your programmers to fix this issue.
Here is my idea on how to perhaps do this easily:
Keep the Find Duplicates option; it can become the merge function.
Synthesize a merging action within this function, so that when we have at least ( 3? 4?) a certain number of fields filled in that are similar,
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It recognizes duplicates
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It gives us the option of keeping the one we want, and merging in the information from the one that we have not kept.
In addition, this option should see whether or not we have more than two similar files.
Currently, Endnote only recognizes two files at once, making it a bit more of a headache to sift through any extra files to see if they are necessary.
There are a variety of competetive software applications out there. It is just a matter of time that Mendeley, Zotero, or one of the other catches up.
Please update the software and make it even more worth our money. It is a good piece of software, but there are some issues that need to be fixed.