Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your ENL file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert ENL to another file type
To convert ENL libraries to another format, you need EndNote or other Database software.
Convert a file to ENL
To convert other file formats to the "Bibliographic Reference Library" file type, you need software like EndNote or a similar tool.
About ENL files
.ENL files are bibliographic reference libraries created by EndNote, a citation management tool developed by Clarivate. Researchers and academics use them to store citations, abstracts, metadata, and links to PDF documents for academic papers. Users typically rely on EndNote to open and manage these files. The .ENL format is highly proprietary and presents significant sharing issues. It requires an expensive software subscription to open properly. Furthermore, an .ENL file is practically useless on its own; it must be stored exactly next to its associated Data folder, which holds the actual PDFs and database indexes. If separated, the library breaks and becomes unreadable. To share citations with users of different software like Zotero or Mendeley, you must convert the .ENL data to standard, open formats like RIS, BIB (BibTeX), or XML. Note that exporting to plain text or RIS will preserve citation metadata but will strip out embedded PDF attachments. Direct conversion of an .ENL file outside of its native software is difficult because the data is locked inside a proprietary SQLite database or ZIP structure. Standard online converters fail because they cannot process the complex table relationships or the missing Data folders. This file format is difficult to open or convert, and often only the original software can properly read or export the data. However, convert.guru can still identify the file format, inspect the file, and show text or internal content. Just drag and drop your file to identify the format, view it, and convert it when possible. If our analysis detects a supported underlying or embedded format, viewing or extraction of raw bibliographic data may still be possible.
Convert.Guru analyzes your ENL file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert ENL file to XML, RIS, BIBTEX, CSV, JSON, YAML, YML, TOML, INI, CFG, CONF or DAT, you can use EndNote or similar software from the "Reference Management Library" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert DBF, XML, SQLITE, XLSX, SQL, TSV, ACCDB, YAML, MDB, CSV, ODS or JSON files to ENL, try EndNote or another comparable tool in the "Reference Management Library" category.
The ENL Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our ENL converter.