These instructions are outdated as of September, 2022.
Please see new instructions at https://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/needtoknow/2022/09/28/how-to-set-up-endnote-to-find-full-text/

 

Due to some changes, you need to change some settings in EndNote Desktop in order to find full-text.

Windows PC

To set up Find Full Text:

1. From the Edit menu, select Preferences
2. Click on Find Full Text
3. In the Open URL Path box, enter: http://uilink.lib.uiowa.edu/view/uresolver/01IOWA_INST/openurl
4. If you are using EndNote from off-campus, you will need to enter https://login.proxy.lib.uiowa.edu beside the box labeled Authentication URL

NOTE:  It is advised that you do not select the box “automatically invoke find full text on newly imported references” that appears at the bottom of the box. Attaching full text for all references is often unnecessary and will interfere with use of library during the process.

Find Full Text:

1. Select the desired references in your EndNote Library.
2. Right click and then select Find Full Text from the pop-up menu.
3. Click OK on the copyright notice. EndNote will begin looking for full-text and will track its progress in the blue side panel.
4. When EndNote finds a PDF, a paperclip appears in the attachment column, and the PDF appears in the File Attachments field of the reference. Click on the PDF to open the article. PDFs are stored in the Endnote library’s .data file, in a folder called PDF.
5. If EndNote can only find an HTML version of the article, a link to that version appears in the reference’s URL field.

Enable UI Link

By enabling UI Link in EndNote, you can easily get to the full-text of an article from the EndNote record

1. From the Edit menu, select Preferences
2. Click on URLS and Links
3. Paste the following into the box labeled ISI Base URL: http://proxy.lib.uiowa.edu/login?url=http://gateway.isiknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi
4. You can now click OK.
5. To use UI Link, click on a record, then go to the References menu and select URL and then OpenURL Link. Use UI Link to find full text, or to launch an interlibrary loan request, if the item is not available electronically.

Mac

Set up EndNote to Find Full-Text

EndNote can attempt to locate the full text (PDF or HTML) of articles in your library. Full text availability is limited to journals to which the UI Libraries subscribe electronically and for which full text is available. If the Find Full-Text function does not locate a given article, try the UILink option below. (NOTE: this service produces error messages when used off-campus. Clicking either “yes” or “no” on error messages and signing in when you see the login screen should allow this to work from off-campus)

To set up Find Full Text:

1. From the EndNote X7 menu, select Preferences.
2. Click on Find Full Text in the left frame.
3. In the Open URL Path box, enter: http://uilink.lib.uiowa.edu/view/uresolver/01IOWA_INST/openurl

1. If you are using EndNote from off-campus, you will need to enter https://login.proxy.lib.uiowa.edu beside the box labeled Authentication URL.

To find full-text:

1. Select the desired references in your EndNote Library.
2. From the References menu, select Find Full Text.
3. Click OK on the copyright notice. EndNote will begin looking for full-text and will track its progress in the side panel.
4. When EndNote finds a PDF, a paperclip appears in the attachment column, and the PDF appears in the File Attachments field of the reference. It also appears in the far right pane when the reference is open. To open the PDF, click the icon in the File Attachments field or click the “book” icon in the lower corner of the open reference. PDFs are stored in the Endnote library’s .data file, in a folder called PDF.
5. If EndNote can only find an HTML version of the article, a link to that version appears in the reference’s URL field.

By enabling InfoLink in EndNote, you can easily get to the full-text of an article from the EndNote record, without attaching the PDF.

Enable UI Link

1. From the EndNote X7 menu, select Preferences
2. Click on URLS and Links
3. In the box labeled ISI Base URL, copy and paste this into the field:

http://proxy.lib.uiowa.edu/login?url=http://gateway.isiknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi

4. To use UI Link, select a record, then go to the References menu and select URL and then OpenURL Link. The UI Link window should appear.

 

Linking PDFs or Other Files to EndNote References

Sometimes, EndNote won’t be able to locate a PDF.  In that case, if you have the PDF, you can manually attach it.  You can also attach other types of files to citations.  The file can be on your own computer or on the Internet.

1. Open the reference to which you wish to link.
2. To link to a file on your computer, select a citation, go to the References menu and choose File Attachments and then Attach File…. Locate the file and click Open.
3. To link to a file on the Internet, simply type (or paste) the URL into the reference’s URL field.

 

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