Improve print/electronic differentiation in imported book references
The default setting for book imports is for electronic books and it is, in my experience, not apparent to users until an inaccurate bibliography is created.
Perhaps you could:
A) Change the default from electronic to print
B) Bring the 'this is an electronic resource' tick-box to the top of the screen when a user imports a book record.
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Shirley Millar
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The improvement that Shalhevet mentions to always show fields relevant to the reference type is welcome but does not address the issue. Legacy RefWorks allowed the default settings to be changed by administrator or by the user. The Library receives complaints about incorrect references from users and lack of this functionality is causing some faculties and users to continue with Legacy RefWorks.
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Honoka Sakai
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As mentioned in other comments, we need the ability to change the default settings for the source type by each user or administrator.
On New RefWorks, an inaccurate references list is created for other record types besides book.
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Andrea
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The ability to select groups of references and change from electronic to print would be extremely useful. Currently, it needs to be done one at a time which is onerous (requires 4 mouse-clicks per record) and does not give a good impression of the product. The global edit change is possible in Legacy (Add - Source Type). Referencing styles often allow a print format to be used even though material is accessed electronically which is driving demand for this feature.
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Peter Stokes
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The ability to change the default for all source types between print and electronic was a very useful feature of Legacy. Being able to choose a default for a specific source type would be even better.