Mendeley: Migrate from RefWorks to Mendeley

It is straight forward to migrate the contents of your Refworks account into your Mendeley account.

What you do is generate a coded text file of all the citations in your Refworks account, save that as a .txt file, and then import that file in to Mendeley. Here are step by step instructions to complete that process:

• To maintain the file structure which exists in your Refworks account, you need to export each folder individually. To do that, right click on a Refworks folder name, select 'Export', and then 'Bibliographic Software (Endnote, Reference Manager, ProCite)'.

• If you want to export your entire Refworks account all at once, hover over 'References' and select 'Export'.

• On the next screen, select 'Bibliographic Software (Endnote, Reference Manager, ProCite)'
• When the page has downloaded, you will see this message in the bottom right of your screen.

• Click to open the file. It will look like this:

• Click 'File' --> 'Save As' --> and save the page as a .txt file.
• Click 'File' --> 'Save As' --> and save the page as a .txt file.

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  • Open your Mendeley Desktop software and click 'File' --> 'Add Files'.

  

  • Find the .txt file you just saved and double click on it.

  

  The references will display within your Mendeley account

Migrate from RefWorks To Mendeley

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