Are you importing references from The Philosopher’s Index to your RefWorks-account? Then double check the pagenumbers and the volume & issue information of the references in RefWorks! At this moment they are not imported correctly. RefWorks is looking into it.
The Start and EndPage are put in the field Other pages, the Volume and Issuenumber are put in a field called ‘Pub Date Free Form’. The other fields seem to be correct.
EmBase, a bibliographical database for medicine and health care, has transitioned to a new platform. One of the new features is the Direct Export to RefWorks function.
To add references from EmBase to your RefWorks account:
1. Mark the references you want to export
2. Click Export at the top of the list of the Search Results
3. Choose Refworks Direct Export
4. Click Export
A pop-up appears and EmBase connects to RefWorks. You have to login with your RefWorks-account and the references will be put in the Last Imported Folder.
When you use the database InformaWorld (a.k.a. Taylor & Francis): double check your references! Sometimes journals change names: unfortunately InformaWorld gives you (and RefWorks) the most recent journal title.
For example:
This article was published in the journal “World Literature Written in English”. This is how you’ll find it in InformaWorld:
The article seems to be published in “Journal of Postcolonial Writing”, the new name of “World Literature Written in English”.
When you export a reference like this to RefWorks, InformaWorld will tell RefWorks that the journal title is “Journal of Postcolonial Writing”. This will cause incorrect citations, so be careful.
We’ve contacted InformaWorld about this issue; they “have passed this onto our electronic-productions department to consider”.
Good news! The problems with Google Scholar have been solved: the link ‘Import into RefWorks’ is visible again. You will see this link after you select this option from the Scholar Preferences page. You’ll find the link to that page next to the search bar.
Maybe you’ve already noticed: the opportunity to import references from Google Scholar to RefWorks has disappeared mysteriously. There should be a link next to each article, but it isn’t there anymore, although you still can select this option in the Scholar Preferences. The world-wide RefWorks community has asked Google Scholar what has happened, but we are still waiting for their answer.
In the meantime: you can use the BibTex, EndNote or Reference Manager option. I’ve tested it and the imported information is the same. Click on the link under the article and save the file (.bib, . enw. or .ris). You can import this file into your RefWorks-account, but make sure you select the correct Import Filter:
| File | Import Filter | Database |
| BibTex (.bib) | BibTex | Bibdesk |
| EndNote (.enw) | EndNote View | EndNote View |
| Reference Manager (.ris) | RIS Format | Reference Manager |
When you have a list of articles this is time-consuming. You can make one big file by opening the small files with NotePad and copy past the information into one file. You can upload this big file and import all titles at once.
Google Books has no direct export option for RefWorks. However, the ‘overview’ page often has enough information to use RefGrab-it. RefGrab-It is an optional RefWorks feature for capturing bibliographic information from web pages, for example from Amazon and publisher sites.
First you have to install RefGrab-it from your RefWorks-account. When you have found interesting literature, for example in Google Books, you click on the RefGrab-It Link or Icon. RefGrab-It will look for information on the webpage: if an ISBN number, PubMed ID or DOI (digital object identifier) are on the web page, RefGrab-It will automatically take that information to search various web resources (behind the scenes) to get supplemental information that may be of interest to you that you can also import.
A pop-up will appear: the “temporary results page”. You can view the information and additional resources first, then decide if you want to import the data to your RefWorks-account. Please be aware: there is not always enough information available to make a correct reference!
More information about installing RefGrab-it is available here.
The cd-rom version of the database Books in Print was already available, but now the University Library as access to Books in Print Online. This database describes in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, audios, and videos from North American publishers and U.S. distributors and wholesalers.
To import references from this database to your RefWorks account, you still need to use the Import Filter Books in Print, but the steps you have to take are a bit different.
Are you a frequent user of the database ScienceDirect? Did you know you can personalize ScienceDirect? After registration you can save alerts, set the number of displayed search results, etc. One of the extra options is called ‘RefWorks settings’. If you enter your RefWorks account information in ScienceDirect, you will be automatically logged in to RefWorks when you export citations. You can register yourself by going to ScienceDirect and clicking the link ‘Not registered’ in the rightuppercorner.
Exporting references from ScienceDirect is easy: mark the titles you want to export, click ‘Export Citations’ at the top of the results list and mark RefWorks Direct Export. Click Export and the references will be imported in your RefWorks account.
The UL offers access to a new database: Communication Mass Media Complete. This database spans the breadth of communication studies, including coverage of theories, media and communication phenomena, research methods, problems, concepts and geographical areas.
Exporting titles from this database to your RefWorks-account is easy:
RefGrab-It is an optional feature for capturing bibliographic information from web pages. It is available in two versions — a bookmarklet that works with either Internet Explorer or Firefox and downloadable plug-ins for Internet Explorer and Firefox. The plug-in version has some features that are not available in the bookmarklet version.
RefGrab-It looks for information on web pages and if an ISBN number, PubMed ID or DOI exists on the web page, RefGrab-It will automatically search various web resources to get supplemental information that may be of interest to you. RefWorks may also locate RSS feeds related to that web page.
More information and the installation files are available on this page: http://www.refworks.com/refgrabit/linkpage.aspx
You can also enroll for the RefGrab-it webinar at http://www.refworks.com/content/webinars/default.asp#RefGrab-It.
