Linking to Full-Text Journal Articles from EndNote

The UQ Library is in the process of implementing a link resolver called WebBridge. This allows users to link directly from a reference to a journal article, which has been located in one database, to the full text of that article which is available on a different database.

Your EndNote Library is a database. If you have input, or downloaded, references for journal articles, this new technology allows you to link directly from the EndNote library to the full text of the article.

This linking procedure will work if you are on campus or off campus. Off-campus users will be required to authenticate with their normal UQ username and password.

Limitations

There are some limitations to this procedure:

• This procedure only works with journal articles. You cannot link to full-text electronic books.
• The references in your EndNote library must contain the ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) of the journal in the ISSN field. If you have exported or downloaded the references from a database, they will probably contain this data.
• This procedure will not work with EndNote 6 and earlier versions.
• Our link resolver (WebBridge) is still being implemented and does not yet work with all our online collections of journal articles. This means that, in some cases, it will just link you to the UQ Library catalogue, to enable you to search further for the journal.

Setting Up EndNote to Work with WebBridge

Open EndNote, and click on Edit on the top menu bar. From the drop-down menu, select Preferences.

When the Preferences window opens, click on URLs and Links (or OpenURL/PDF or OpenURL in earlier versions) on the left-hand side.

When the OpenURL pane is displayed, check the box labelled Enable OpenURL.

In the first box (OpenURL Path), delete the existing text and enter the following:

http://library.uq.edu.au:4550/resserv

In the second box (Arguments), delete the existing text and enter the following:

?sid=END&aufirst=AUFIRST&aulast=AULAST&issn=ISSN&atitle=ATITLE &title=TITLE&volume=VOLUME&issue=ISSUE&date=DATE&spage=SPAGE

If you have copied and pasted the above text, remove any line breaks after you paste it into the box. It should be one continuous string of text.

The screen should now look something like the following image. There may be slight variations, depending upon which version of EndNote you are using.



Click on the OK button to save these changes.

Connecting to Full-Text Articles from EndNote

To connect to the full text from a reference in your library, you must first highlight the reference (in earlier versions of EndNote, you have to double click on the reference to open it).

Then click on References on the top menu bar.

Use the drop-down menu to select URL and then OpenURL Link. (In earlier versions of EndNote, just click on OpenURL or OpenURL Link.) See the following illustration.



EndNote will send a message to WebBridge, which will attempt to locate the full text of the article. Providing that the EndNote reference contains the ISSN (International Standard Serial Number), one of two things should happen:

• Either: WebBridge will connect you directly to the full text of the article. You may be asked for your normal UQ username and password.
• Or: WebBridge will fail to locate the article, and will present you with a screen saying "Sorry. Based on the information provided, we are unable to provide a link to fulltext." If this happens, click on the link for UQ Library Catalogue, and WebBridge will search for the ISSN in the catalogue. If it locates the ISSN, you will see the catalogue record for the journal. If the issue which you require is available online, you will be able to connect to it from the catalogue in the normal way.

Note for Users of Pubmed

If you download references from the Pubmed database, be sure to use the latest version of our Pubmed filter, or alternatively use the Pubmed connection file on our connection files page.

This is to ensure that the International Standard Serial Number imports without any qualifying terms which would interfere with the operation of WebBridge.