Exporting from Ovid to Reference Management Software
What is Reference Management Software?
Reference management software helps store and organise your references and use them in your writing.
See Re:cite, the library's home of citing and referencing, for more.
Open Endnote
Select the references using tick boxes or range.
You can export up to 1000 references at a time.
Select Export.
Select Format > RIS
Under Fields, select the fields you would like exported.
We suggest Complete Reference
Include options:
We suggest not ticking either of these, as there are easier ways to access full text
External Resolver - takes you to Find it @ Unimelb
URL - a url link for Ovid, best if you are already logged into Ovid.
Click Export
This downloads a file for Endnote, how it works depends on your computer
automatically opens Endnote and imports
you click on file to open and import
RIS file export
Select the references using tick boxes or range.
You can export up to 1000 references at a time.
Select Export.
Select Format > RIS
Under Fields, select the fields you would like exported.
We suggest Complete Reference
Include options:
We suggest not ticking either of these, as there are easier ways to access full text
External Resolver - takes you to Find it @ Unimelb
URL - a url link for Ovid, best if you are already logged into Ovid.
Click Export
This downloads an RIS file you can import into Zotero
Zotero browser connector
Open Zotero.
If it doesn’t already exist, create the Zotero folder you want to save the search results into
Click on the Zotero connecter (it should appear as a folder, if it is the letter Z it is disabled or you haven't opened Zotero) Any references Zotero finds on the page will appear
Select your desired references
Select your desired folder
The RIS export is useful for when you just want large amounts of references in a library.
The connector method is useful for automatically adding fulltext pdfs to your library
