
Enter the email address to which to send the records and make sure RIS Format is selected in the right-hand column. For large sets of records: In upper right corner, select Share > Export results: E-mail a link to download e xported results (this option is activated at the institutional level, e.g., it's available at McGill but may not be available at other institutions). In CINAHL, click on View Results for the list of records you will be exporting. In EndNote, create a new library, with a useful name like SearchConcepts-CINAHL-yyyymmdd-xRecords.enl, for the records from the database in question (CINAHL) and have the library ready in the background. Create a compressed version of the EndNote library for your records. Document your Ovid account information as well. Save the search history to your personal Ovid account (free) and identify the search by database name and date this greatly facilitates rerunning the search later if an update is needed.
The search history can then be copied and pasted into an appendix of the article, to document the search strategy with exactness. You can delete the record from the Word document as that was only needed to permit exporting the search history. ps and copy/paste the search into another document, or download the search history for your records using Export (select one record for this) > choose Microsoft Word format, check off Search History, and save the Word document to your documentation folder, with a useful filename in a format like SearchConcepts-yyyymmdd-Search-MEDLINE-xRecords, SearchConcepts-yyyymmdd-Search-Embase-xRecords, etc. Document the search: From Ovid MEDLINE, use the command. Move batches of exported records to the library you created and check the final number of records in the library against the number of results listed in database. From Ovid, export complete reference in groups of Export To: EndNote Select Fields to Display: Complete Reference Export Citations).
In EndNote, create a new library, with a useful name like SearchConcepts-MEDLINE-yyyymmdd-xRecords.enl, for the records from the database in question (e.g., MEDLINE on Ovid) and have the library ready in the background.We often start by exporting records from Ovid MEDLINE, if applicable (you may have decided to only use PubMed to search MEDLINE those instructions are below): (MEDLINE, Embase, APA PsycInfo, Global Health)