SciFinder-n for Agriculture, Environmental Sciences, Food Science and Engineering

A guide to how SciFinder or SciFinder Scholar can be used in Agriculture, especially Soil Science, Environmental Sciences, various fields of Engineering and related fields.

Exporting Citations

You can export citations from SciFinder into citation managers such as EndNote Basic. Mark the citations, click on the Download (square with a down arrow symbol) link in the upper right corner, and choose an output file type. It may take some extra steps, such as saving the file as an RIS file. Then inport the citations into whichever citation manager you use.

See the EndNote Basic guide for more information.

Creating Alerts

SciFinder-n allows us to set up alerts:

1. Do a search--

2. If you like your results, click on the "Save and Alert" link on the upper right corner of the search area.

3. In the dialog box that will pop up, *name the alert* (it won't be saved if it isn't named), indicate how often to run it, whether to get all or just the newer citations.

4. To view the results, click on the Alerts bell on the upper right top of the screen.

Citation Management Software

EndNote Basic allows you to save citations to a personal database and then format those citations in footnotes, endnotes, or bibliographies. It is available through Web of Science/Web of Knowledge. Check out EndNote Basic help.

Zotero is similar freeware. We have guides for it and can help at least at a basic level to get you started.