At Your Service: June 2006 Archives

I was asked about importing from Diamond, our library catalog, to RefWorks. It can be a little tricky, so I offer a few abbreviated steps:

1) When you're ready to export the records from Diamond, you should select "End-Note/RefWorks" as the format from the list at the left.

2) On the right select "Local Disk."

3) Click "Submit" and save the file to an easily accessible location.

4) Log-in to RefWorks.

5) From the "References" menu at the left of the RefWorks menu bar, select "Import".

6) Select "EndNote View" as the "Import Filter/Data Source" and the "Database".

7) If you want all the imported references to go into a specific folder you can select it next under "Import References into."

8) Under "Import Data from the Following Text File" click on "Browse" and then find the file you just exported (probably called "export.txt") and click "OK".

9) Click "Import" at the bottom.

10) Your records should then be imported. You can view them by clicking on the "Recently Imported" folder link.

If you have any question, ask.

--Derik A Badman

The latest issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education (Volume 52 Issue 40 Page A29) has an article titled "Toss Out the Index Cards" (free online) on bibliographic management software such as EndNote and RefWorks.

The University has a license for RefWorks that allows free use by students, staff, and faculty. Follow the link and sign up to give the software a try.

As an addition to the article I will note that many of the library's article databases (including all EBSCO and OVID products) have the ability to automatically export citations into RefWorks with a simple click of the mouse (and a quick log-in to your account).

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.

--Derik A Badman