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Small Caps
Some citation styles require small caps, yet there is no mechanism within RefWorks to generate them. This is problematic.
12 votesThis can be set using RefWorks Citation Style Editor. Title may be set to appear as UPPECASE, lowercase, Title Case and Sentence case
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Edit in-line citation output style
There are some ways to edit the in-line citations (ex: supress author, add suffix), but no way to edit the overall display format like there is for the bibliography format in the output styles. An example of how this is useful is when I want to cite multiple sources but have a semi-colon between references rather than a comma, since I am delineating specific page numbers and am already using a comma for that.
Additionally, it would be great to see a preview of both the in-line text and the bibliography in RefWorks for a given output style, rather than…
8 votesThis is available as a setting in Citation Style Editor, for Citations: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/RefWorks/Product_Documentation/RefWorks_User_Guide/0900_Managing_Citation_Styles#Creating_Custom_Citation_Styles
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Enable Option to Delete User Accounts
Currently Refworks doesn´t have the option for delete user accounts. Even if you send invitation for new users, you can not delete invitations.
Is extrange because, you can give admin privilegies to account but you can not delete it.
7 votesCurrently in new RefWorks Admins can deactivate user accounts. Please let us know if there is something about this feature that you would like enhanced.
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Show folder location
When displaying search results within Refworks, indicate the folder(s) where it resides.
25 votesAlready Supported · AdminShalhevet Bar-Asher (VP, Research Information Management, Ex Libris) respondedIn Normal and Full views, the folder name has always been displayed, however we recently changed the folder name to blue to make it more noticeable. We will consider showing the folder in Table and Citation views as well in the future.
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allow people to create public bibliographies
like zotero allows
2 votesAlready Supported · AdminShalhevet Bar-Asher (VP, Research Information Management, Ex Libris) respondedFolders can be shared via a public url with non-RefWorks users
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Show author & date in Normal view (RW3)
For users with hundreds of records, we need to identify references in a long list of similar titles. Author or date sorting doesn't help if that info isn't visible. Normal view could be more citation-like, please.
39 votesWe released an update to the normal view that shows the author and date in Normal view.
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Browser Extensions for Importing
Provide a browser add-on or extension which paints a button on database pages to easily download the citation, but also the full text.
4 votesAlready Supported · AdminShalhevet Bar-Asher (VP, Research Information Management, Ex Libris) respondedThe Save to RefWorks browser bookmarklet performs this functionality.
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