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RefWorks booklists – latest

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Kudos to Social Work (i.e. Kev!), for being the first to use one of my formatted RefWorks books feeds in anger – see below a screenshot of Kev’s Social Works new books feed embedded into a live Blackboard site using feed2js (click for bigger): If you have created your own feed, could you please: Let [...]

Written by Paul Stainthorp

October 9th, 2009 at 3:11 pm

Attaching a RefWorks account to a Blackboard site

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I’m writing this here because Julian asked for a reminder on how to do it (I had to remind myself first!) and thought a permanent record in the blog would be more useful than an ephemeral email. Also: I’ve an idea that it may be useful to combine this with my process for creating new [...]

Written by Paul Stainthorp

September 11th, 2009 at 4:15 pm

RefWorks: 10 ideas for 10% by (20)10

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Following up on my last RefWorks post. On Monday I had a phone conversation with Stephanie Faulkner, client services manager for RefWorks-COS. We discussed my desire to increase our ‘reach’ (currently 5.6% of the University are active users), and Stephanie went through some ideas, based on what the top 50 worldwide RefWorks-using institutions have found successful. I’d [...]

Written by Paul Stainthorp

August 12th, 2009 at 11:49 am