Hello,
I am a new graduate student and I am just starting to use Endnote at CWRU. Back when I was at the University of California, I was able to connect directly to the UC library through Endnote and find articles. I've tried to connect to OhioLink through Endnote, but it refuses with the following message: "Host refused connection at TCP level. (Firewall?) (Unauthorized IP address?)"

Any solutions? Thanks.

Update: I am using Endnote 11 now but having the same problem.

Are you off campus? If so, perhaps you need to connect via VPN:

Download, Install and Connect to VPN first, then try EndNote.

http://vpnsetup.case.edu

Note: I'm neither a librarian, nor a EndNote user :)

You don't specify what at OhioLink you are trying to search with EndNote. The OhioLink central catalog should work fine with or without VPN.

If you are trying to use anything else at OhioLink (EJC, EBC, databases) and you are doing so either on campus/wireless or off campus, then as David suggests, you'll need to fire up VPN.

I'm not an EndNote user either, but we'll get this sorted out for you!

I am trying to connect from on campus, and I have tried using VPN with no effect.

I am mainly trying to search IEEE journals with EndNote. I realize I can do this directly through IEEE Xplore or the OhioLink central catalog, but I'd like to do it through EndNote so that the program will store the reference data automatically.

Thanks for your help!

We subscribe to all the IEEE journals through IEEE Xplore, so I would not recommend searching from the OhioLINK catalog.

Also, I do not know about searching from EndNote. It would seem that would restrict how you search. IEEE has a button to automatically import reference into EndNote as you find them.

I know IEEE closely monitors excessive usage and it might block people from using EndNote this was as it would be an easy way to harvest all their data.

You may want to contact the librarians at the Health Center Library. They utilize and teach EndNote more than the KSL staff. At KSL we push the online RefWorks instead.

Thanks for your help. So I've decided to just give up on connecting through EndNote. I'll explore other options like RefWorks.

David Tian:

Thanks for your help. So I've decided to just give up on connecting through EndNote. I'll explore other options like RefWorks.

There is an excellent CaseLearns class being offered on March 19th on using RefWorks. Their online tutorials are good, but this would be an excellent opportunity to learn RefWorks from the ground up.

CaseLearns Calendar

Hi William, Thanks for all your help and the heads up on the RefWorks class!