RE: Direct export to Ovid Medline

> Our Medline (Ovid) filter should import the Medline AU field to Notes,
> and the FA field to Author.   But it doesn't.  It imports both to
> Author, resulting in duplicate authors.  I have edited the filter to 
> make it ignore AU but it still imports both AU and FA to Author.
> 
> The really strange thing is: if I have the filter installed on my own 
> individual network space, it works.  If I store it on a shared drive 
> where every EndNote user on campus can use it, it does not work.
> 
> Has this happened to anyone?   I have already been in touch with Ovid,
> with EndNote technical support, and with my own IT people, with no joy

> so far.

Direct export from Ovid is unlike direct export from other databases.

If you open your Medline (Ovid) filter for editing, and go to the
"Reference Type" section of the filter, you will see the VN and DB tags
that EndNote uses to identify the correct filter when a file is sent
from Ovid to EndNote. If the file from Ovid contains those two tags,
EndNote uses the filter.

Probably you have another filter in the Filters folder which has the
same VN and DB tags in the "Reference Type" section. EndNote is finding
that other filter first, and using it instead.

So you need to look at all the Ovid filters on your shared drive, and
check the "Reference Type" section of each one. When you find a filter
that has the same settings as your Medline filter, delete that filter.
This should fix the problem.

John East
University of Queensland Library
Email: [email protected]