[Eril-l] migrate to new refworks?

[Melissa Belvadi]

We also had a demo and are deciding, but fyi the "at some point" is
currently set to Dec 2017, so you could go this entire academic year
without migrating.
Accounts can be individually converted to the "new" platform, but they
recommend that librarians for now make a separate account using a different
email address (could be a personal gmail account for instance) to test
things rather than convert (no going back) your main account just yet.

We're thinking of getting new students this fall to start with the new
platform, but not force students who would graduate in the upcoming year to
switch, as it means a whole new Write-n-Cite (which seems to have lost that
name and gained Google plugin functionality) as well as a major new
learning curve.

FYI, students with the latest version of MS Word for Mac will need the new
one to use the plugin/WnC because RefWorks doesn't support Office 2016
(2015?) for Mac with the old WnC.

Melissa

On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 5:53 PM, Irons, Lynda R. <larremol at pacificu.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Amy:
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> We had our RefWorks representative visit us to demonstrate new Refworks
> and to review our migration options.  This is what we learned:
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> You can do a soft migration, meaning you can leave classic RefWorks as is
> and then ask RefWorks to embed a link to new RefWorks.  The new RefWorks
> link will display *after* the user logons to RefWorks.  (BTW:  I asked if
> the link can be more prominent here and on the login page.)
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> Or you can hard migrate, meaning you change the classic RefWorks URL (from
> where you have links to RefWorks) to the new RefWorks.  All the users’
> citations will migrate, but the users will need to create a new
> username/password.
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> RefWorks will keep classic RefWorks active for a bit, but at some point
> (TBD), everyone will be migrated to new RefWorks.
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> The librarians here meeting later to discuss how/when to migrate.
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> Best,
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> Lynda
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> *From:* Eril-l [mailto:eril-l-bounces at lists.eril-l.org] *On Behalf Of *Amy
> Lynn Fry
> *Sent:* Monday, June 20, 2016 1:44 PM
> *To:* Eril-l at lists.eril-l.org
> *Subject:* [Eril-l] migrate to new refworks?
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> Hi! Should I be migrating my institution to the new RefWorks this summer?
> Or waiting? I’m confused, and I asked my rep, but she wasn’t sure either.
> What are other people doing with RefWorks?
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> Amy Fry
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> Associate Professor, E-resources Librarian
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> Jerome Library
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> Bowling Green, OH 43403
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> afry at bgsu.edu
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> *email is the best way to reach me*
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-- 
Melissa Belvadi
Collections Librarian
University of Prince Edward Island
mbelvadi at upei.ca 902-566-0581
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