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RefWorks - WilsonWeb
Instructions for Transferring Citations

Databases:
Art Retrospective
Readers' Guide Retrospective
Short Story Index

Direct Export to Refworks

  1. Conduct a search and select the records you want by clicking the check box to the left of each citation
  2. Click the Print Email Save button (left side of screen)
  3. Following Download Record(s) into:, select the radio button for RefWorks' Direct Export Tool
  4. Following Clear the marked set after the export?, select either the Yes or No radio button (No is the default)
  5. Click the Export button
  6. Click the Export button
  7. Log into RefWorks and your records should automatically appear in the Last Imported Folder

Save as Text File and Import into RefWorks 

In WilsonWeb indexes:

  1. Conduct a search and select the records you want by clicking the check box to the left of each citation
  2. Click the Print Email Save button (left side of screen)
  3. Click the Save Options link
  4. Following Fields:, select the radio button for All citation fields
  5. Following Format:, select For exporting to Bibliographic Software
  6. Following Clear the marked set after the export?, select either the Yes or No radio button (No is the default)
  7. Click the Save button
  8. A new window opens with your citations in text format
  9. From the File menu, select Save As. Save your file as a text file (with a .txt extension) to the location of your choice (e.g. desktop)

In RefWorks

  1. Login to your RefWorks database
  2. Select References/Import from the toolbar
  3. Select H.W. Wilson as the Import Filter/Data Source and All databases as the database
  4. Browse to find the text file you saved to your computer
  5. Click Import
  6. Your citation(s) will be imported into the Last Imported Folder. You may now move them into the folder of your choice
Last Updated: June 30, 2005
Technical Contact: Keith Stanger, keith@stanger.com

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