Oxford Brookes UniversityTransferring references between EndNote Web and desktop
EndNote desktop and Web versions are designed to work with each other, so you can use both products if you wish. For example, you might choose to use EndNote Web at home in conjunction with EndNote desktop while on campus.
References can be transferred from your EndNote desktop Library to your EndNote Web Library and vice versa. Note that these will be 2 separate Libraries and you cannot automatically synchronise them, so when you add a new reference to one of the Libraries, it will not appear in the other Library unless you choose to transfer it.
Below are instructions on how to transfer references between EndNote desktop and EndNote Web.
Transferring references from your EndNote Library into EndNote Web
- First open your EndNote desktop Library and select the references you want to transfer. It is possible to transfer all of your desktop Library references or a group. You can also run a Quick Search to find specific references - then highlight these to select them.
- Next save these references as a file. From the File menu, select Export. A dialogue box will open to save the file: give it a name and change the Output style to EndNote export then click on Save.
- Now open your EndNote Web Library and import the file. Go to the Collect tab, and click Import references. Find your file, and then change the import option to EndNote import. You should also select the library/group you wish to import the references into. Then click Import. When the process is complete, a message will tell you how many references were transferred.
- First open your EndNote Web Library and select the references you want to transfer. Click on the Format tab, and select Export References. Use the drop-down menu to select the appropriate group of references or choose All References in my Library.
- Next save these references as a file. From the drop-down menu next to Export style, choose EndNote Export. Click on Save to save these references as a text file.
- Now open your EndNote desktop Libraryand import the file. Click on File and Import.In the Import dialog box click on Choose File to look for the file of references you've just saved. Select the Import Option EndNote Import. Click on Import. The newly imported references will be displayed.