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Request for Integration between Gakunin RDM and RefWorks
We would like to request the integration of RefWorks with Gakunin RDM, the research data management system provided by the National Institute of Informatics.
https://support.rdm.nii.ac.jp/about/For example, Gakunin RDM is currently integrated with another reference management tool, Mendeley. By enabling the Mendeley add-on in Gakunin RDM and authenticating with a Mendeley account, users can display the bibliographic data of references stored in Mendeley within the Gakunin RDM platform.
Users can also copy citations, and if the Mendeley data includes links, they can access the original data directly.5 votes -
Request to Add IP-Based Restrictions for Account Creation
I would like to request two improvements to the account creation settings in RefWorks:
- The ability to restrict account creation by IP address.
- The option to require both an approved IP address and an approved email domain for account creation.
These features would help improve security and limit access to authorized users only. I hope you will consider adding them in future updates.
Thank you.
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Hi, I would really like an option to add favourites or pin certain references in the refworks citation manager in Word.
Hi, I would really like an option to 'add favourites' or pin references in the RefWorks citation manager in Word. It would be easily accessible, and you won't need to scroll all the way down or type in the name every time you cite a source you often use.
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Why are you making us vote on new referencing styles when you should just have all of the ones listed already available?
For example, Birmingham City University suggests that Audiovisual media should be separated into these categories:
Films
Television Programmes
Videos from Streaming Services
Vodcasts
Educational Videos
Videos from Online Video Platforms
Social Media Videos
Webinars
Live Performances (Musical)
Live Performances (Non-Musical)UCL suggests these:
Film
Online video
Podcast
Radio and internet radio
Television advertisement
Television programme
Video gameI'm assuming these universities pay to license your software - so why aren't you providing the functionality that their students need? Why won't you give us the ability to create our own bespoke styles if you refuse to do it?
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Create separate reference types for television shows and streamed videos (as they are required to be referenced differently)
TV shows and YouTube videos MUST be referenced differently. People can be marked down and have articles rejected because of YOUR oversight.
Here's an idea: go through a list of referencing styles and make sure that RefWorks is able to produce references for EVERY type of source listed there. How can any student or researcher use your product if it can't reference ordinary everyday sources? I can't reference newspaper articles with no author because RefWorks just puts ANONYMOUS at the front of the reference, when it should be the name of the paper. I could move the name of the…3 votes -
Extension for browser
The save to RefWorks button has never worked for me or anyone at my school due to the blocks in place that can't be removed on computers for ads, cookies and other restrictions. A browser extension through the Chrome web store would help to solve this issue as it would be about acquiring permissions rather than relying on there not being any permissions to bypass. As is the nature of an application that reads the website and its data and extracts information many companies have been increasing the security of websites to prevent hacking but this inadvertently impacts programs such…
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RCM insert bibliography at specific location, Allow Word content following the bibliography
Some document types require content after the bibliography, e.g. institutional policies, or book chapters with appendices. RCM only drops the bibliography at the end of the Word document, which is out of order for some document types.
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Add Bulk Tagging and Tag Management Tools
It would be helpful to have a bulk tagging feature in RefWorks. Currently, adding tags to multiple references is time-consuming as it has to be done individually. Adding the ability to select multiple items and apply or remove tags in bulk would streamline organization. Additionally, a tag management page where users can view, rename, merge, or delete existing tags would improve usability and reference organization, especially for large libraries.
<a href="https://italianbrainrot-clicker.com">Italian Brainrot Clicker</a>1 vote -
Request for a Feature to View Citation Styles and Output Results in a List
On the "Create Bibliography" screen, it was previously possible to view the list of Citation styles in alphabetical order. Now, it seems that the list only appears after entering a search term.
I would appreciate it if there were a way to view the style names and their output results in a list without entering a search term.5 votes -
Deletion of multiple tags.
I would like to request a feature that allows the deletion of multiple tags from all references at once. This would help streamline the process of managing tags efficiently.
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Help keeping the consistency of author's names II. Provide Author Management.
Legacy Refworks had a very useful feature. You could do "Search by author". That search gave you a list of all authors matching the search with the number of publications of each author. Then you could select a specific author and obtain a list of all her references.
New refworks has not such a search. So it is difficult for one to really know when one could have the same author entered differently in the database.12 votes -
PLEASE develop an integration with LiquidText.
Please add a LiquidText integration for RefWorks or vice versa. LiquidText is an excellent notetaking app and it would be wonderful to be able to use them seamlessly together.
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Help keeping the consistency of author's names I. Help in typing the name.
Legacy Refworks had a very useful feature. When you were typing an author's name at the respective field the system prompted you to use some of the names you already had in your database. This helped you to have the same author always with the same name, avoiding unnecesary typos and different versions of the same author ¿Could it be possibe to recover this feature in the new Refworks?
9 votes -
Sentence Casing - stop words
It would be extremely helpful if RefWorks could have an easy to use function to specify certain words not to be changed when using 'Sentence Casing’.
If some frequently used words and names were built into RW e.g. America, China etc. so that user did not have to do anything for them, that would be even better. Possibly making that customisable by admin at a site level as well as by individuals would be even better.
Many thanks
Shirley Millar (University of Stirling)9 votes -
Allow an option to write and read the folder a reference is stored in. This could be an RIS extension or use folder name as key word.
It would be convenient to have the folder structure in a Refworks collection of references able to be exported as an RIS file and then read the RIS file back in with the folder structure fully restored. This could be implemented as an RIS extension with a new record type storing the folder or can function within RIS by treating the folder name preceded by a specified text string indicating that the key word is actually a folder. For example, an extension would be creating a new record type such as FF for file folder and code the folder name…
3 votes -
Improve output of Japanese authors' names
Some of Japanese author guidelines requires authors to remove spaces between first and last name.
To remove spaces between first and last name, I need to edit records.
If I remove the comma between the first and last name on the Edit screen of record, the space will be removed when the reference list is output.
However, with this setting, in-text citations are not output correctly.
I want to output only the last name, but the full name is output.It would be great if both the reference and in-text citations could be output in the expected form at the…
19 votes -
Allow quick import of public shared folder into user's own RefWorks account
If a user wants to add a public shared folder into their own account, they need to export into a RIS file and import the RIS file into their own account, which takes many steps. It would be helpful to have a quicker way to import a public shared folder. This functioned previously existed in Legacy RefWorks; there was an "add to account" button or something like that.
3 votes -
Import Multiple RIS files at the Same Time
Could you improve the system to import multiple RIS files at once?
1 vote -
Add a feature in "manage projects" to hide or group projects
Add a feature in "manage projects" to hide or group projects. Our instructors have a long list of projects that students have invited them to that they'd like to organize into current and archived areas to more easily navigate.
6 votes -
Notification when Share folder is accepted
Send the folder Owner a notification or unflag my folder, when the Share recipient accepts the Share / views the folder.
Currently, we have no idea whether the recipient has Accepted the Share, or opened / viewed the folder. Ideally, the shared folder could be flagged as "share pending" until the recipient has accepted or viewed it.8 votes
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