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Finding only NEW entries
Author: Patrick Skerrett    Posted: 28/03/2001 13:18:51 GDT
Greetings -- I regularly run a saved search on Medline and import the results to a temporary EndNote library. I then import the items from that library into my main library, execute the "Find Duplicates" command, eliminate the recently added duplicates, and end up with an updated library. But I would also like to identify only the NEW entries. Can anyone offer suggestions for doing this? Many thanks. PJ Skerrett Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School

Re: Finding only NEW entries
Author: Ulrich Beutner    Posted: 29/03/2001 08:54:05 GDT
>Greetings -- > > >I regularly run a saved search on Medline and import the results to a >temporary EndNote library. I then import the items from that library into >my main library, execute the "Find Duplicates" command, eliminate the >recently added duplicates, and end up with an updated library. > > >But I would also like to identify only the NEW entries. Can anyone offer >suggestions for doing this? > If I get you correctly, you want to see the NEW entries after the import/delete duplicate procedure. There is an easy, although not very elegant way to do so. Before the import sort the library according to the record number (red #). You can include the rec # in the list view and simply click on the column with the rec# to sort it. Look at the end of the list and note the highest rec# (or sort with descending order and find the highest number at the top). Do the import/delete duplicate procedure, sort again with the rec# and all entries with higher rec# than the one you wrote down will be new entries. Good luck Ulrich Beutner -- ================================================ Ulrich Beutner, Ph.D. Chirurgische Universitaetsklinik Abt.: Exp. Transplantationsimmunologie (ETI) (University Hospital, Department of Surgery Unit for Experimental Transplantation Immunology) Josef-Schneider-Str. 2 97080 Wuerzburg Germany Tel. ++49 931 201-2252 FAX: ++49 931 201-3448 (or 2249) =================================================

Re: Finding only NEW entries in Medline search
Author: RM Baldwin    Posted: 29/03/2001 12:05:33 GDT
At least on Ovid here at Yale, you can limit a search to the latest update. What's really convenient is to save it as an auto-alert search. Then each time the data base is updated, it runs your search and sends the results by email. Don't know about PubMed, don't use it that much. -Ron Baldwin Yale U. At 02:00 am 3/29/01 Thursday -0800, Patrick Skerrett wrote: >Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 07:18:51 -0500 >From: "Patrick Skerrett" >Subject: Finding only NEW entries > >I regularly run a saved search on Medline and import the results to a >temporary EndNote library. ... > >But I would also like to identify only the NEW entries. Can anyone offer >suggestions for doing this?

Re: Finding only NEW entries
Author: Selden Deemer    Posted: 29/03/2001 14:12:57 GDT
"Patrick Skerrett" writes: > I regularly run a saved search on Medline and import the results to > a temporary EndNote library. I then import the items from that library > into my main library, execute the "Find Duplicates" command, eliminate > the recently added duplicates, and end up with an updated library. > > But I would also like to identify only the NEW entries. Can anyone > offer suggestions for doing this? This isn't foolproof, but use Edit Preferences, Display Fields, then set one of the columns to display record number. Then reverse sort your library by record number, so that last in is first out. ====================================================================== Selden Deemer, Library Systems Administrator PHONE: 404-727-0271 Emory University Libraries FAX: 404-727-0827 Atlanta, Georgia EMAIL: ======================================================================

RE: Finding only NEW entries
Author: Frank Schirra    Posted: 29/03/2001 15:37:45 GDT
Hallo Patrick. You could at least more easily identify the new references by sorting the updated library using the record number under "References - Sort Library... - 'sort options'". The highest record numbers are the new ones. You would just have to know the latest record number from the update before. It is not a very neat way to find the new records though. Frank ___________________________ Frank Schirra, M.D. Schepens Eye Research Institute & Harvard Medical School 20 Staniford Street Boston, MA 02114 U.S.A. e-mail:

Re: Finding only NEW entries
Author: Ard Jonker    Posted: 29/03/2001 17:06:42 GDT
>I regularly run a saved search on Medline and import the results to a >temporary EndNote library. I then import the items from that library into >my main library, execute the "Find Duplicates" command, eliminate the >recently added duplicates, and end up with an updated library. > > >But I would also like to identify only the NEW entries. Can anyone offer >suggestions for doing this? This requires two copies of the database, one with a numbering field (use e.g. the 'notes' field), one without. The numbering is somthing you make yourself. You keep your numbered copy for daily use and the unnumbered version as explained below. To get to your desired result, there are two steps. Roughly, first determine unique entries in your search results: duplicate the old "database without numbering", call it "A" select all, copy and paste (now A contains exactly 2 copies of each item) merge the "search results database" into the "A" database (only new, unique records have no copies, old items have 2 copies and new items that were in A already have 3 copies) find all duplicates (therewith finding all but the unique new ones) delete all duplicates you're left now with only the unique new ones in the database named "A". copy all items and paste them in your "original old database without numbring" this database is used in the future to repeat this process Then make the newly found items recognisable as such in the second step: Go to the "A" database replace the notes field of all unique records with a new number (or date) copy all entries and dispose of "A" paste the numbered new records into the issue-numbered old database. The number will tell what entries are new. If you use a number formatted as yyyymmddii (year, month, date, issue) you can also search for entries like 'notes <19990824001 AND notes >19970114003' (You cannot answer your question with only the numbered database, as the number field will render each newly found record as unique compared to its "duplicate" already in your database, even when all other data is unique) ard

Re: Finding only NEW entries
Author: J Virginia Benjamin    Posted: 29/03/2001 19:00:13 GDT
Hello, one strategy for locating New entries might be... Before you integrate the newest entries, Sort your permanent Endnote library by Record number (References/SortLibrary/select Recordnumber in dropdown box and the bar icon with tallest bar first to signify most recent to oldest arrangement) and note the most recent Record number by viewing the top bar of the first record in your library...the character string will be Endnote 4 -[author lastname, year, #x] and x will be the most recent Record number. After integrating your references, with Sort by Record number still the Sort priority for your permanent library, the New entries will be all the intervening numbers from the present to the number you had noted as the most recent before the integration... virginia Virginia Benjamin Faculty Liaison for Electronic Library Services University of Georgia Libraries Athens, Ga. 30602 email: http://www.libs.uga.edu/liaison Date sent: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 02:00:03 -0800 (PST) From: (endnote-interest-digest) To: Subject: endnote-interest-digest V1 #885 Send reply to: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 07:18:51 -0500 > From: "Patrick Skerrett" > Subject: Finding only NEW entries > > Greetings -- > > > I regularly run a saved search on Medline and import the results to a > temporary EndNote library. I then import the items from that library into > my main library, execute the "Find Duplicates" command, eliminate the > recently added duplicates, and end up with an updated library. > > > But I would also like to identify only the NEW entries. Can anyone offer > suggestions for doing this? > > > Many thanks. > > > PJ Skerrett > Brigham and Women's Hospital > Harvard Medical School > > ------------------------------ snip

SV: Finding only NEW entries
Author: Jens Kondrup    Posted: 29/03/2001 20:00:12 GDT
Dear Patrick Why do you not use an import filter to discard duplicates when importing? Next, sort references in library according to record number in descending order. Your new refs will be at the top. Best regards Jens Kondrup -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Patrick Skerrett Sendt: 28. marts 2001 14:19 Til: Emne: Finding only NEW entries Greetings -- I regularly run a saved search on Medline and import the results to a temporary EndNote library. I then import the items from that library into my main library, execute the "Find Duplicates" command, eliminate the recently added duplicates, and end up with an updated library. But I would also like to identify only the NEW entries. Can anyone offer suggestions for doing this? Many thanks. PJ Skerrett Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School >From owner-endnote-interest Thu Mar 29 11:02:11 2001

finding only new entries
Author: Thomas D Sigerstad    Posted: 29/03/2001 21:56:56 GDT
After finding duplicates EDIT SELECT ALL REFERENCES SORT LIBRARY SORT OPTIONS = record number The highest record numbers will be the new entries You can do this with any searched list of your entries not just the find duplicates lists

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