RefWorks has already announced their new user interface: RefWorks 2.0. Do you want a preview? Click here to register for the RefWorks 2.0 Webinar.
Please note: this webinar is made for experienced users. When you’re new to RefWorks, it’s better to watch a recorded RefWorks-webinar, take a look at our online course or register for the library RefWorks workshop.
When you register at Scopus and make a personal account, you can add your RefWorks login-information to your settings. After this you don’t have to login in RefWorks when you export your references from Scopus (you have to login in Scopus). You will see which references are already exported from Scopus to your RefWorks database when you perform a new search.
With a personal Scopus account you can also create alerts and receive an e-mail when a search renders new results in Scopus, when a certain document is cited or when a document of a certain author is cited. You can also save searches.
Again a new database was added to list of databases of the University Library: De Gruyter Online. This database offers access to electronic journals from Philosophy, Law, Medicine, Communications etc.
To import references from this database into your RefWorks-account you have to:
In RefWorks you have to choose RIS Format twice.
A new database was added to the list: Thieme e-journals, covering dozens of research and review journals in medicine and biology.
You can get references from Thieme into your RefWorks-account, but it’s not very user-friendly (one by one and no abstract included):
The Direct Export from Scopus to RefWorks is working again.
However, when you have added your RefWorks login information to your personal profile in Scopus (that allows you to export references without logging in) you will still get an error message. Scopus and RefWorks are working together to solve this problem as well.
A new database has been added to the list of databases the EUR has access to: Economists Online. This database contains the academic output of major European Economists. It is the result of the NEEO project from the Nereus network and co-financed by the European Commission.
To export titles found in this database you have to:
In RefWorks you have to choose RIS Format behind Import Filter ánd behind Database.
We have recently got access to the psychology and sociology annual reviews in the database Annual Reviews. These publications synthesize the vast amount of primary research literature and identify the principal contributions within these fields. This makes them a good starting point for your own research.
You can export references from this database to RefWorks like this:
From the press announcement of RefWorks:
RefWorks-COS has announced its plan to launch a new user interface in early 2010 for RefWorks, its web-based research management, writing and collaboration tool.
Dubbed, RefWorks 2.0, the new interface greatly improves the user experience, putting all of RefWorks’ sophisticated features right at users’ fingertips. It uses intuitive Web 2.0 conventions and a cleaner layout, making it easier to navigate and more visually appealing.
Throughout the development of the new interface, the RefWorks design team had the user foremost in mind, analyzing usage habits, reviewing user feedback, conducting surveys, and engaging users before and during the design process. The new Web 2.0 interface focuses on the site usability and the end-users needs, providing sophisticated and contemporary design elements to highlight many of the current, valuable features in RefWorks.
RefWorks 2.0 also includes some back-end technological improvements that will make it easier for RefWorks to develop new features and to work with customers and partners in new ways.
“For years, we have focused on adding functionality to RefWorks based on direct feedback from our users. The product is feature rich; however, some of its best features are not being fully utilized as they have become harder to discover within the existing interface.” said Colleen Stempien, RefWorks-COS’ Executive Director of Operations. “With RefWorks 2.0, not only does this new interface make all of our existing features easier to discover and use, it greatly facilitates our ability to further develop more features and make them quickly accessible to our users.”
Though it is anticipated that most users will be able to take full advantage of RefWorks 2.0 from the outset, a six-month phased transition period is planned so that RefWorks administrators and users have ample time for preparation, training and adjusting to the new interface.
The new interface will also introduce an updated RefWorks logo, and will be launched along with a new RefWorks-COS website, which marks the completion of the integration of the RefWorks and COS organizations.
For sneak peak of RefWorks 2.0, go to http://www.refworks-cos.com/RefWorks2.0
The interface of PubMed/MedLine has been changed, and so the steps you have to take to get your references from this database into your RefWorks-account.
After marking the titles you want to put into RefWorks, click Send to in the right upper corner. Mark ‘file’ and choose MEDLINE as format. (You can change the order of the titles.) Save the file to your computer as a text-file.
In RefWorks the steps haven’t changed:
* Choose References > Import
* Behind Import Filter you can select Erasmus University Rotterdam
* Behind Database you select PubMed
According to RefWorks the Direct Export from the EBSCO-databases is working again.
