SR resources for Librarians: Export Limits

OVID

(Medline, Embase, PsycInfo)

2000

- you can save in batches by specifying the range of items.

EBSCOhost

(CINAHL)

25,0000 via export link

OR

1,500 via folder export

- click on "share" and select the "e-mail a link to download exported results (up to 25000)" link

- if you have more than 25,000 results, reduce your results into distinct sets that are less than 25,000 (e.g. by date range)

- there can be a significant delay between when you "send" the link and when you receive it in your inbox (days). 

- alternative: add items to a folder, page by page, and export from there. Be sure to view the maximum # of citations per page (50) to make things go somewhat faster.

Scopus

20,000 “citations only” format to a CSV file,

1,000 items to Mendeley,

2,000 items to any of the other export options.

Web of Science

500

- As a registered user you can: 

• Save searches in the Web of Science

• Save a Marked List to recall for later use

• Export up to 5000 records at one time

• Add references to your EndNote Library

- Use  "Fast Save" to save up to 5000 records at a time to your marked list. 

*** "Fast Save" will export tab delimited format for Author title and source but CANNOT be used to export to reference management software. 

- if there are more than 500 items to export, reverse the sorting order. Or, limit results by date to save in batches.

ProQuest

10,000

According to the ProQuest Support folk "You can download as many citations as often as you would like. (at 10,000 a shot). This is true for any database on the ProQuest platform."

According to others, you require an account to export.