Maybe I shouldn’t admit this, but until just now, I didn’t realize that you could import Google Scholar references right into Endnote. A friend was exalting the glories of RefWorks because of its interoperability with Google Scholar, and since he said, and I quote, “RefWorks sh*ts all over Endnote.” In addition to immediately reverting to defensiveness about my tool of choice, I took this to mean that Endnote did not have the same capability. You can see why I might have leaped to that conclusion. And for the record, RefWorks could be a good tool for someone who prefers to keep their database online, which I don’t.
As my use of Google Scholar has increase, my curiosity about whether or not there was a filter available to import to Endnote has too. And in fact, there is no filter, there is a simple change in setting to see that preference, which a university in New Zealand tipped me off as to how to go about modifying this.

To summarize, you simply go to “Scholar preferences” in Google Scholar, and set the “Show link to Import Citations” to the bibliographic manager tool of choice. Voilá, a link appears next to each of the records generated by Google Scholar.

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