If you are a Scholar's Aid user and want to give Biblioscape a try, you can transfer your bibliographic records from a Scholar's Aid database into a Biblioscape database easily. Here are the simple steps you can follow.
| 1. | Click here to download the needed Scholar's Aid template file. Unzip it to the folder "C:\Program Files\Scholar's Aid\SysData\". |
| 2. | Start Scholar's Aid. Go to the menu command "File | Preferences...". |
| 3. | On the Preferences window, go to the "Library" tab. Click the combo box "Template file:" and select "tagged". Click the OK button to close the Preferences window. |
| 4. | In Scholar's Aid, go to the menu command "File | Export to...". On the Export Window, go to the folder where you want to save the export file and enter a file name. Select "Plain text file formatted by a template (TXT)" as the "Save as type". Click the "Save" button. |
| 5. | The Export window will be shown. Make sure "tagged output" is selected. Check "All records" in order to export all records in your database. Click "Export" to start exporting. |
| 6. | In Biblioscape, select the references folder where you want to import, and go to the menu command "File | Import...". |
| 7. | Click "Browse" to select the file you exported in step 5 as the "File to import". On the "Tagged Plain Text" tab, select "Scholars Aid -- Tagged Output" as the import filter to use. Click "Start" to import. |
