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 Biblioscape
If you are switching from another bibliographic software
Biblioscape provides a smooth transition for users of other bibliographic software. If you use a software that is not listed in the following list, please contact us for help.
Which bibliographic software do you want to know about?
If you use EndNote
If you are an EndNote user and want to try Biblioscape for its advanced features, you can easily transfer your
bibliographic records from an EndNote database to a Biblioscape database. The following are the simple steps you would follow.
- Start EndNote and click the menu command "Styles | Set Styles Folder...". Then select "EXPORT" as the current style folder.
- Select "REFER.ENS" as the current style filter.
- Now you can export references as a text file. Click the menu command "File | Export...". Select "Text
File (*.txt)" for "Save as type" combo box, and give a file name. Click the "Save" button. The records will then be exported as a text file in REFER format.
- Start Biblioscape. Create a folder for the import. Click the menu command "File | Import...". Click the
"Browse" button to select the file you just exported from EndNote. On the "Tagged" tab, select "EndNote
-- Refer" (or "Refer (EndNote)" in earlier versions) as the "Import filter," and then click the "Start" button to import.
- Once the importing process is finished, your imported records will be shown in bold. After viewing those records in reference editor, they will be shown normally.
Note: If you have customized EndNote reference types, both EndNote's export style and Biblioscape's import
filter will have to be adjusted accordingly. For example, if you added a customized field called "Institution" as
"Tertiary Title" for "Journal Article" in EndNote, you will have to edit the "REFER.ENS" style file by adding an
extra export field "TT" to map "Tertiary Title" for "Journal Article." Then you have to edit the Biblioscape import
filter for "Refer (EndNote)" to map tag "TT" to "Tertiary Title".
If you use ProCite
If you are a ProCite user and want to try Biblioscape for its advanced features, you can easily transfer your
bibliographic records from a ProCite database to a Biblioscape database. The following are the simple steps you would follow.
- Start Windows file manager and move the ProCite style file from "c:\program files\biblioscape 4\tools\procite2biblioscape.pos" to directory "c:\program files\procite4\styles\".
- Start ProCite and click the menu command "File | Print Bibliography."
- Click "..." button to select the style file "ProCite2Biblioscape.pos" mentioned in the previous step.
- Click the "Configure" button, select the "Fields" tab, check boxes "Show Notes," "Show Abstract," and
"Show Keywords." Click the "OK" button.
- Go back to the Print Preview window and click the "Save..." button to save it as a text file.
- Start Biblioscape, click the menu command "File | Import...". Click the "Browse" button to select the file
you just exported from ProCite. On the "Tagged" tab, select "ProCite2Biblioscape" as the "Import filter" and then click the "Start" button to import.
Note: If you have customized workforms in your ProCite database, you need to modify the ProCite style file
"ProCite2Biblioscape.pos" so each of your customized workforms will correspond to a "Reference Type" in the
Biblioscape database. You should put the Biblioscape reference type after tag "p0--" and list all other fields
under their corresponding tags, for example "p1--", "p2--", etc.
If you use Reference Manager
If you are a Reference Manager user and want to try Biblioscape for its advanced features, you can easily
transfer your bibliographic records from a Reference Manager database to a Biblioscape database. The following are the simple steps you would follow.
- Start Reference Manager and click the menu command "References | Export...".
- Give a file name first and then select "RIS" as "Output format" and "All references in list" as "References
options." Click the "Export" button to start.
- 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. 8)" as "Import filter". Click the "Start" button to import.
If you use Papyrus
If you are a Papyrus user and want to try Biblioscape for its advanced features, you can easily transfer your
bibliographic records from a Papyrus database to a Biblioscape database. The following are the simple steps you would follow.
- If your version of Papyrus doesn't have the "RIS OUT" format library, you can download it.
- Copy the format library into the directory where Pap.exe resides. Copy the output format out of the library into the list of active formats by the commands:
Formats:
Library:
Find ENTER
Select RISOUT~1.flb, hit enter
Select YES
Select COPY from Library, enter
Type in RIS OUT
The output format is now ready to use.
- Now make a RISOUT file
Select LIST
Choose whatever subset of your database you desire by record number, etc. Follow the instructions until you reach "Choose on Device"
Select FILE
Select ASCII with line breaks
Name the file, hit enter.
- Now you are ready to import the RIS file into Biblioscape. In Biblioscape, go to "File | Import." Click the
"Browse" button to select the file you exported in the last step. On the "Tagged" tab, select import filter
"RIS -- Reference Manager (Ver. 6, 7)" and click the "Start" button to import.
If you use NotaBene Ibid
If you are a NotaBene Ibid user and want to try Biblioscape for its advanced features, you can easily transfer
your bibliographic records from a NotaBene Ibid database to a Biblioscape database. The following are the simple steps you would follow.
- Start Biblioscape and go to the menu command "File | Import."
- Click the "Browse" button and select the NotaBene Ibid file you want to import.
- On the "Tagged" tab, select "NotaBene Ibid" as the import filter.
- Click the "Start" button to import.
If you use Bibliographica
If you are a Bibliographica user and want to try Biblioscape for its advanced features, you can easily transfer
your bibliographic records from a Bibliographica database to a Biblioscape database. The following are the simple steps you would follow.
- Start Bibliographica and click the menu command "File | Run Export Module". Click on the "Open"
button to select the Bibliographica database you want to export and then select "Reference Manager (RIS)" as the "Export format."
- Click the "Start" button. A text file with the same name as the database will be created with ".ris" as the
file extension. In our example, the file name is "asthma.ris" in directory "D:\TEMP2\ASTHMA\".
- 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. 8)" as "Import filter". Click the "Start" button to import.
If you use Citation
If you are a Citation user and want to try Biblioscape for its advanced features, you can easily transfer your
bibliographic records from a Citation database to a Biblioscape database. The following are the simple steps you would follow.
- The Citation database file is basically a text file with tags for each data field. Therefore it can be imported
directly into a Biblioscape database with the Citation import filter. The following is an example of the Citation database file:
>Article in a Journal (extended form)
>AU Myers, Bethany R.
>YR 1996
>AT Public problems: a thing of the present
>TR Williams, Jane
>PG 221-229
>JR Citizen Forum
>VO 8
>KW article in a journal, each issue begins on page 1
>AP Myers 1922
>RF Periodical, article in journal
>C2 Public problems
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>Article in a Popular Periodical
>YR 1981
>AT Telling time
>DE editorial
>PG 6, 7, 8
>JR Newsweek
>DM 8 March
>KW article in a periodical, unsigned; unsigned, article in a periodical; editorial
>AP Telling time
>RF Periodical, unsigned article in a magazine
>C2 asdfjk
- Start Biblioscape and go to "File | Import...". Click the "Browse" button to select the Citation database
file. On the "Tagged" tab, select "Citation" as "Import filter". Click the "Start" button to import. If you
don't have the "Citation" import filter, you may download it.
If you use LibraryMaster
- Export LibraryMaster records in MEDLINE format.
- Start Biblioscape and click the menu command "File | Import."
- Click the "Browse" button and select the file you just exported.
- Go to "Tagged" tab, select "MEDLARS" as the import filter to use.
- Click the "Start" button to import.
If you use BiblioExpress
BiblioExpress store its data in binary format. To import those records to Biblioscape, you must first export
BiblioExpress records as a plain text file in Biblioscape Tag Format. Then import that file into Biblioscape using the import filter "Biblioscape Tag File."
- Start BiblioExpress. Go to the menu command "File | Export | Biblioscape Tag File". Go to the desired folder and enter a file name.
- Start Biblioscape. Go to the menu command "File | Import".
- Click the "Browse" button and select the file you exported in step 1. Select "Biblioscape Tag File" as the import filter. Click the "Start" button to import.
If you use Scholar's Aid
If you are a Scholar's Aid user and want to try Biblioscape for its advanced features, you can easily transfer
your bibliographic records from a Scholar's Aid database to a Biblioscape database. The following are the steps you would follow.
- Download the Scholar's Aid template files. Unzip them to the folder "C:\Program Files\Scholar's Aid\SysData\".
- Start Scholar's Aid. Go to the menu command "File | Preferences...".
- In the Preferences window, go to the "Library" tab. Click the combo box "Template file:" and select "tagged." Click theOK button to close the Preferences window.
- In Scholar's Aid, go to themenu command "File | Export to...". In the Export Window, go to the folder
where you want to save the file and give it a file name. Select "Plain text file formatted by a template (TXT)" as "Save as type." Click the Save button.
- 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 the Export button to start exporting.
- Once the export is finished, start Biblioscape. If you don't already have the import filter "Scholars Aid --
Tagged Output," you may download it. Go to "File | Import Filters...". Click the Import button and select the *.bif file you just downloaded.
- In Biblioscape, go to the menu command "File | Import...". Click the Browse button to select the file you
exported in step 5 as the "File to import." On the "Tagged" tab, select "Scholars Aid -- Tagged Output" as the import filter to use. Click the Start button to import.
If you use a BibTex program
BibTex format is used for the LaTeX document preparation system. LaTeX is mainly used in the mathematics
and computer science fields. Biblioscape includes an import filter for BibTex files. To import a BibTex file into Biblioscape, follow the procedure described below.
- Start Biblioscape and go to the menu command "File | Import."
- Click the "Browse" button and select the BibTex file you want to import.
- On the "Tagged" tab, select "BibTex" as the import filter.
- Click the "Start" button to import.
If you use a spreadsheet or database program
If you keep your reference collection in a spreadsheet program such as Excel, Quatro Pro, Lotus 123, or in a
desktop database program such as Access, Paradox, Approach, File Maker Pro, etc., you can import your
references into a Biblioscape database as a tab or comma delimited file. You will, however, need to do some
data massaging in the spreadsheet first. The following example shows you how to prepare data for importing using Excel.
- If you use a desktop database program like Access, Approach, or Paradox, the first step is to export the
table as an Excel file. Go to "File | Export" and select "Excel (*.xls)" as the file format.
- Start Excel and open the reference data file. The first row has to be the data field name.
You should then use Excel to make sure the data satisfy the requirement depending on the data field.
All the 3 date fields "Date_pub", "Date_input", and "Date_modified" have to be in the format of
"5/21/1998". The data for "Year_pub" have to be an integer. For all the authors fields, individual author
must be separated by "; ", Individual keywords in the "Keywords" field also have to be separated by "; ".
You may have to break pages "12-23" into two separate columns in Excel. You should insert the blank
column first after the "Pages" column, select the "Pages" column and then go to the menu command "Data | Text to Columns...".
- After massaging the data to meet all the requirements, go to the menu command "File | Save As...", select the "Text (Tab delimited) (*.txt)" as the file format.
- Start Biblioscape and go to the menu command "File | Import." Select the importing file, go to the
"Delimited" tab and select "Tab" as "Data fields separated by." Uncheck the "To folder" button. Click "Start" to import.
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