Refworks import instructions

Moving Citations from Research Databases to RefWorks
There are four ways to move citations into your RefWorks personal library:

Use a "Direct Export" from the research database. This will automatically launch RefWorks and store the citaitons in your "Last Imported" folder. Direct export functionality is available from a few database providers, specifically ABC-CLIO, CSA, EBSCOhost, and OCLC.
Save the citations to import later into RefWorks. You must save the citations in the correct format in a text file, and later import the citations into RefWorks. This option is available from most research databases.
Lauch a "Direct Connection" from within RefWorks to the research database. Available only for Orbis (Yale University Library catalog) and PubMed.
Create the RefWorks citation by cutting and pasting or typing text by hand. This is labor intensive and prone to error. Only recommended for those citaitons and databases where the options above are not available to you (Academic Universe from Lexis-Nexis is an example).

The options available from some major databases are outlined below.

Major Databases Export Options

Database	Direct Export to RefWorks	Save to Text File/Import Filter	Direct Connect from RefWorks
Academic Search Elite	Yes Instructions	Yes Academic Search settings: Bibliographic Manager tab, select Citations in a format that can be uploaded to bibliographic management software . RefWorks import settings: EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite	No
Britannica.com	No	No	No
EconLit (and other CSA databases)	Yes	Yes RefWorks import settings: CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts) Then specify the database, e.g., EconLit	No
InfoTrac	No	Yes Instructions	No
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe	No	No	No
Medline (and other Ovid databases,e.g., PsycINFO, Cinahl)	Yes	Yes RefWorks import settings: Ovid then specify the database, e.g., Medline.	No
Morris	No	Yes Instructions	No
Orbis Yale University Library Catalog	No	Yes RefWorks import settings: Yale University Yale University Library Endcoding is UTF-8	Yes
Periodicals Content Index	Yes	Yes RefWorks import settings: RIS Format RIS Format UTF-8	No
PubMed	No	Yes RefWorks import settings: NLM PubMed PubMed	Yes
Scopus	Yes	No	No
Web of Science	No, Direct Export only for Endnote/ Procite/RefManager	Yes RefWorks import settings: ISI (Insititute for Scientific Information) Web of Science	No
WilsonWeb	Yes	Yes	No
WorldCat	Yes	Yes RefWorks import settings: OCLC WorldCat	No
Yale Links	Yes In the Yale Links services menu, look under "Other Library Services" and choose Export this citation to Refworks	No	No
Yale Multidatabase Search	No	Yes Use the import filter under Yale University, and then database Yale Multidatabase Search.	No