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Import Bibliographic Records From Bibliographica Database - October 15, 1999

If you are a Bibliographic user and want to try out Biblioscape's advanced features, you can easily transfer your bibliographic records from a Bibliographic database to a Biblioscape database. Follow the steps below to make the transfer.

Warning: You should avoid importing all of your Bibliographic records into a single folder if there are several thousands or more of them. It will result in slow performance when opening this large folder. You can break up the export file and import the smaller files to different folders, or you can choose not to import records into any folder by unchecking the "To folder" checkbox during the importing process. Use Ctrl+R to retrieve all records.

1. Start Bibliographica and click the menu command "File | Run Export Module".

2. Click the "Open" button to select the Bibliographica database you wish to export, then select "Reference Manager (RIS)" as "Export format". Click the "Start" button to start. A text file with the same name as the database will be created with ".ris" as file extension. In our example, the file name is "asthma.ris" in the directory "D:\TEMP2\ASTHMA\".

3. Start Biblioscape and go to "File | Import...". Click the "Browse" button to select the file you exported in step 2. On the "Tagged" tab, select "RIS -- Reference Manager (Ver. 6,7)" as "Import filter". Click the "Start" button to import. The import filter "RIS -- Reference Manager (Ver. 8,9)" works better. To use it, you need to first open the file exported from Bibliographica with a text editor and replace all instances of "JO - " to "JF - ", "ED - " to "A2 - ".

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