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Fix bug when importing references and choosing destination folder
There seems to be a bug in the new feature that allows you to choose a destination folder when importing a new reference. The first time I use it, it works well and I can choose from the drop-down menu. The second time (and every time after that), when I click the drop-down menu, none of my folders show up. I have to click through and import it, then assign a folder after the fact. Very frustrating because it works the first time!
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I'm not a reference builder app - you figure it out.
I don't know how to fix it - that's your job. However, I'm Frustrated that it's a download from GCU but it only works correctly about 60% of the time and I'm not including PDFs in this which, of course, are not supported. I'm about to go back to using a different citation generator. If I wanted to repeatedly build my own citations, I wouldn't need RefWorks, right?
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La bibliografia
La bibliografia al final me sale en ingles el recuperado, ademas del titulo de las referencias también en ingles
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Limit record
is it possible to limit the import records from Libraries databases (like in the old release)?
it could be important to have limits of 20-50-100- 200 records per search.
Thank You
Giampiero, Università Cattolica di Milano1 voteThank you for your valuable feedback. We won't be able to address this idea in our planned roadmap. We are committed to our users and are focusing on current goals and most requested features.
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Citation optimization
Right now, the problem for me with RefWorks is that it does far too many things automatically. At my university, we have our own rules of the citation which have to do with the rules of Dutch grammar. e.g. We write titles and subtitles as sentences, meaning that only the first letter of the first word per sentence is capitalized. The exception is of course for names, place names, historical events, etc. (each of these depending on the local spelling & grammar rules). While we want as much information as possible to be automated, it's very unhandy to automate the…
2 votesThis was handled offline.
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Import full date when importing newspaper articles from proquest historical newspapers database
When importing citations from Proquest historical newspaper database, only the year is imported. This isn't satisfactory for creating notes/bibliographies including newspapers, which typically require mm/dd/yyyy information.
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Provide automatic doi insertion in new Refworks
In the new Proquest Refworks the doi can only be inserted manually. In the legacy version this was uploaded automatically when importing references.
1 voteDOI is inserted automatically when available and when readable by the import filter. Please open a support case if you encountered cases where this did not happen: https://supportcase.exlibrisgroup.com/s/refworks
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Allow Articles uploaded in Dropbox to automatically download in Refworks
Before finding out about Refworks, I had all of my articles saved in Dropbox under Dissertation Articles. I transferred them all to the new RefWorks folder in my Dropbox but I don't see them uploading into my Refworks project. I have a Chromebook so I can't click and drag the articles in there. There were over 100 articles in there. It will take me a while to transfer them myself.
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How about actually uploading the right attachment? And populating the right citation information. I was up until 2am sorting out your mess!
When importing refereneces somehow, I have ended up with completely random refereneces in my list and then missing some important ones. I was up until 2am last night trying to sort out your mess but it is an impossible task when the link doesnt work/has not been populated. And all the citation information seems completely random, like I have ended up with someone elses's reference ! I will be writing a personal letter of thanks if I fail my assignment
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Thank you for your feedback. We won't be able to address this idea in our planned roadmap. We are committed to our users and are focusing on current goals and most requested features.
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Improve Import from old RefWorks
Please improve your import tool from the old RefWorks platform, as it does not import all references as it is now. I've tried multiple times in the last two years. I'm not switching to your RW platform, and keep using the old one because of this: I'm not willing to lose valuable references in the process.
1 voteIn the first half of 2020 we will be addressing some upgrade issues, primarily the mapping of fields. However all references can be imported when upgrading, either with the upgrade button (if enabled by institution) or by exporting from legacy and importing to (new) RefWorks. If not all references are importing, please open a support case at https://supportcase.exlibrisgroup.com/?product=Refworks
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Export RIS format from Cochrane Library without lacking of the field C3 and M3
The field of C3 and M3 is dropped out when we try to export citations by RIS format from Cochrane Library. Please improve it.
2 votesPlease submit a support case at the following link: https://supportcase.exlibrisgroup.com/s/refworks
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importing names with 'foreign characters' such as ä, ö, å to be imported correctly.
at the moment, when there is an import of a 'foreign character' in a person's name, the letters do not get saved corrected. It would be good to include the import without manual changes. Note, this does not happen all of the time, it does happen frequently though.
1 voteImport of diacritics was fixed last year. If you still encounter such cases, please open a detailed support case using the following link: https://supportcase.exlibrisgroup.com/?product=Refworks
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Please negate the need for Refworks to require a new tab and login when I export new references from my Institution's database.
I would like all my exported references to default to the Refworks database I already have open at the time.
Each time I export a new reference into Refworks, I am asked to login again which results in multiple Refworks tabs open.61 votesAfter investigation we determined this is not possible to change as each database sets own link targets on their own sites, resulting in RefWorks being open in separate tab. With multiple tabs, references are imported independently and are not overwritten.
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Provide the ability to add different reference types to an existing style
There are new forms of information all the time and students are referencing increasingly varied things in their assignment. It would be useful if we could add new reference types to our institutional referencing style to cover these things.
1 voteThank you for your valuable feedback. We won't be able to address this idea in our planned roadmap. We are committed to our users and are focusing on current goals and most requested features.
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Speed up the refresh
March 23, 2019. Refresh is agonizing slow, database is practically useless in this condition. Will not import an APA reference from from Google Scholar. You need to fix this.
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I attempted to set up the synchronizing with RefWorks from ProQuest and now I cannot import citations at all.
I attempted to follow the instructions from a ProQuest database to synchronize My Research folders with RefWorks. I had an existing RefWorks account and followed the instructions from ProQuest. Now I cannot import citations from EBSCO EDS or ProQuest Databases.
I am directed to the login screen. I login with my account, however, it will not import the citation. I have tried this with the Chrome, Firefox and Next browser.
I would delete my RefWorks account and try again but the login is tied to my college email address so I can't use a different email address to try to…1 vote -
It disabled my Zotero. Yet the Write n Cite disappeared so now I cannot cite anything. There is no help posted anywhere for this either.
Disabled my other ref manager. But won't load up- also installed a virus on my laptop (dx by a computer repair person). Now I am left with no way to cite anything. No help posted anywhere for this.Thanks RefWorks.
1 voteThis should be handled via support as advised in the previous comment.
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Remove formating on import
Cut and pasted or imported html to be stripped before adding to RefWorks. This would separate the content from it's styling and allow the selected citation style to work correctly.
1 voteThank you for your valuable feedback. We won't be able to address this idea in our planned roadmap. We are committed to our users and are focusing on current goals and most requested features.
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