Since articles indexed in Medline are also indexed in other major biomedical databases, many databases include a way to remove citations indexed in Medline from results. This can come in handy if you have already run a search in PubMed/Medline, and you only want to view the unique citations.

In Embase you can use a simple and visual way of excluding publications also indexed in Medline:

• Click on the Sources tab in the left column. You will see a Venn Diagram representing the sources of records for your search results.
• Click on the Embase only section to highlight.
• Click on Apply.

Note that this method has some limitations and may not remove 100% of the articles that were retrieved in your PubMed search.

If you already have a PDF of an article in your files, you can use it to create an EndNote reference, without the trouble of finding it in a database and exporting it first.

Create a reference in EndNote library based on the saved PDF with a few easy steps:

1. Have your target EndNote library open, then go to File menu and click Import > File
2. In the Dialog box that appears, click Choose and browse your computer drive(s) to find and select the PDF for which you want to create a reference in Endnote
3. For Import Option select PDF from the drop down menu
4. Click Import

The reference you’ve just created will appear in your EndNote Library with the PDF attached.

Note: This process does not work for all PDFs.

EndNote is a citation management tool that simplifies manuscript writing. Among the features that EndNote facilitates is author collaboration, including collaboration between co-authors/contributors from different institutions. In support of co-author collaboration, EndNote offers more than one option for sharing their bibliographies.

Please, note that resource license restrictions should be taken into account when sharing EndNote libraries: Full-text PDFs (articles, book chapters, etc.), should be shared only between co-authors from the same institution; or, if applicable, between co-authors from the institutions which license the same resources.  In other instances only references without PDFs, with exception of open access resources, should be shared between collaborators.

A way for co-authors to collaborate in real time using EndNote x8 is demonstrated in the video below.

https://youtu.be/z2WhHJBQeFc