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RCM Issue: Citing Works with the Same Author and Year
According to APA 7 #8.18 Avoiding Ambiguity in In-Text Citations (https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations/basic-principles/same-year-first-author#:~:text=To%20avoid%20ambiguity%2C%20when%20the,al.%E2%80%9D%20in%20every%20citation ), multiple authors should still be listed in in-text citations to avoid ambiguity, when citing multiple works by three or more authors published in the same year.
However, based on our review, it seems that the current RCM does not consider this special scenario. For works with three or more authors, it only include the name of the first author followed by “et al.”, without considering the ambiguity rules. Based on our dummy paper, which includes three references with three or more authors from the same year. In…
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Bulk Import References with One CSV/TSV File
We would like to be able to import large amounts of bibliographic information (CSV or TSV format files) compiled in Excel into RefWorks in batches.
22 votes -
Allow users to change the interface language in public shared folders
Currently, the interface for public shared folders is only available in English. Please allow the ability to change the language (particularly French).
12 votes -
Search Option in Reference Citation Manager
I would like to bring to your attention about a critical issue regarding the search function in Reference Citation Manager (RCM). We have encountered a problem that it is unable to retrieve relevant article records when searching for separate keywords of a title in RCM.
It was also discovered that RCM does not provide an “Advanced” search function, compared with RefWorks interface. Considering our testing and comparison with the RefWorks interface, it is apparent that RCM lacks the necessary functionality to support advanced searching. Users are unable to retrieve relevant records unless they specifically type joint words, which is impractical…
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Search Option in RefWorks
We checked with the RefWorks Support Centre regarding the basic search option settings. The search always prioritizes the joint word over the two separate keywords. To search for the two separate keywords from the title, we need to use the "Advanced Search" option as it provides better refinement of results. Searching for two separate words may not locate such record. However, from the users' perspective, we will simply select some major keywords instead of typing the joint words together every time. Additionally, we will not interpret "Advanced Search" as a search for separate words. Therefore, we believe that there is…
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improve the spacing of text (particularly abstracts) on refworks site
The text in the abstracts on Refworks is very scrunched up, making it difficult to review the abstracts on screen. Please can there be some way to adjust this or made to 1.15 spacing as a default.
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Create a way to pull citations from our Word document reference list, into a file, capable of checking the correct format.
Create a way to pull citations from our Word document reference list into a file, capable of checking the correct format.
8 votes -
Add "Last Month" short cut in Refworks Analytics
In the RefWorks Analytics interface in Admin, the default option for time is "This month", "This year", "Last 12 month" and "Custom". It would be very convenient to add an option for "Last Month".
3 votes -
Citing pre-prints in RefWorks
There is a growing interest and use of repositories (like https://arxiv.org/) for publishing these non-peer-reviewed articles and abstracts, especially in the computer science, Physics and other engineering fields. As of today, such an option is not available in the RefWorks.
9 votes -
Screen Reader Accessibility issue and RefWorks profile creation.
Hello RefWorks Team,
My name is Daniel Bernardo and I am a Digital Accessibility Specialist reviewing online course materials at UNT. We reviewed RefWorks in regard to an upcoming course and found some accessibility issues regarding the use of assistive technology for users with visual impairments.
My colleague who is fully blind and relying on NVDA screen reader and keyboard navigation found that he couldn't continue setting up his profile by himself after registering due to the popup window that appears one the page that is linked in the confirmation email. In particular, the combo boxes to select First Name,…
2 votes -
Add working paper as a reference type
Currently working papers are added as 'generic' while many style have specific working paper rules that can easily be applied
4 votes -
Optionally avoid deduplication when a criterion is void
While deduplicating it can happen that RefWorks suggests large numbers of candidate duplicates because one of the chosen criteria is void, e.g. I choose "title/ISSN/page number" and RefWorks suggests a large number of totally unrelated records just because they all lack the page number - this is taken by the algorithm as "match succeeded". Since this behavior could be sometimes useful, there should be an option "also match void criteria" to choose when it is deemed useful by the user.
9 votes -
Add Social Media as a Ref Type
We use Cite Them Right 11th ed. Many social media examples have a medium type e.g. [Podcast], [Facebook]. Medium is not a field I can add for a RefWorks webpage type.
3 votes -
Include DOI in openURL to work with LIbKey Link
Include DOI in the OpenUrl passed by RefWorks so that we may use Third Iron's LibKey Link as our Link Resolver
14 votes -
customize display of Shared folders
customize display of Shared folders. Currently, a public URL to a Shared Folder does not allow any customization of how these citations are displayed--or any selection whatsoever--creating disadvantage for RefWorks-naive users.
Please allow the admin and/or user customization of how references are displayed in public URL Shared folders. (e.g., I might like to display only the title and abstract, etc.)
24 votes -
Merging Folders
Would it be possible to be able to merge folders when creating a bibliography from more than 1 folder
2 votes -
data-driven article recommendations
There is a demand for data-driven article recommendation function for RefWorks.
Some kind of web services have already implemented this kind of function.
One end-user said that it should be based on not only articles in user account but also references cited in those articles. I hope this idea to be considered.26 votes -
View all highlights
The single most important thing I found when writing my book, and what I do desperately need for my dissertation, is a single location that lists all of my highlights from the entire project. The workflow of reviewing the documents, highlighting key ideas, viewing all the highlights, organizing them into a cohesive framework, then building it into the final product is one of the most keenly efficient ways I've ever seen to write a scholarly work, and you're one step away from being the perfect resource for that.
Please.
8 votes -
Be able to restructure folders more easily
Currently, folder structure is set once created and cannot be modified without recreating and deleting folders. It would be great to be able to click and drag folders so that if we decided to make one folder into a subfolder, or make a subfolder into a main folder, we could click and drag it in/ out without having to create a new folder structure, move/ reassign all the references over, and then delete the previous folder structure.
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Link to pubmed
The old RefWorks version had an option to open the reference in pubmed, that option is not there with the updated ProQuest version? I need to use the update view since google docs and word docs do not link to the old version. I would like a link so I can directly open a reference in pubmed again, please.
18 votes
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