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FYS 1028: The Other in World Literature, Art, & Cinema

Resources and information relevant to the topics discussed in FYS 1028.

Exporting citations into RefWorks

 Make sure all pop-up blockers are Disabled!!!   

All EBSCO databases:

1. Conduct a search in any EBSCO database

2. Click on the title of any article citation so you can see the whole citation

3. Click on the Green piece of paper ICON with the arrow located in the upper right hand side

4.  Click “Direct Export to RefWorks”

5. Click the SAVE button on the left

6.  Ref Works will POP UP and prompt you to log in

7. Your record should appear in the Last Imported Folder in REFWORKS

The JSTOR Database: 

1. Conduct a search in JSTOR

2. Choose a citation you want to export and click on EXPORT THIS CITATION.

3. Choose REF WORKS

4. Ref Works will pop up and view last imported folder to see your imported citation

The Contemporary Women's Issues Database: 

1. Perform your search in Contemporary Wemen's Issues  

2. STORE the references you want to export

3. Click on STORED RECORDS

4. Click on EXPORT RECORDS

5. Export Formats: Choose “DIRECT EXPORT TO REFWORKS”

6. Other Options: Choose “Automatically import into bibliographic manager program”

7. Click the EXPORT NOW button

8. Ref Works will POP UP

9. Your records should appear in the Last Imported Folder in REFWORKS 

WEB of SCIENCE - includes Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index: 

1.  From your search results, select the items you wish to save by clicking in the checkbox to the left of the appropriate citations.

2.  Click on the LONG button “Save to EndNote, RefMan or other reference software” at the bottom right side of the screen.

3.  Click the Export button.

4. Save to desktop. . SAVE, SAVE, to desktop, note the name of the file or change the name to “savedrecs.txt” CLOSE after download is complete.

5. Log in OR click over to Ref Works if you already have it up in your browser.

6. Select References/Import from the toolbar

7. Select ISI (Institute for Scientific Information) as the data source and Web of Science as the database

8.  Browse to find the text file you saved to your computer on the DESKTOP and named “savedrecs.txt” and click on Open

9. Click Import

10. Your records should appear in the Last Imported Folder   

The OPAL Catalog: 

  • Do a search in OPAL and click “add to list” on ones you want to export.  
  • Click on VIEW LIST button at the top of the screen and check the boxes next to the citations.  
  • Click on EXPORT LIST at the top of the screen 
  • Format of List: Full Display 
  • Send list to:  LOCAL DISK 
  • SUBMIT – SAVE – SAVE to desktop Note name of file “ export.txt”  
  • Close file download 
  • Open / click on REFWORKS 
  • References – IMPORT  
  • Import Filter: Innovative Interfaces Innopac 
  • Database: Otterbein College OPAL 
  • BROWSE button: look at desktop for your “export.txt” file and choose it 
  • OPEN  
  • IMPORT 
  • Your new references should be in your last imported folder

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