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Export from Lexis®Library to RefWorks

Posted on January 11th, 2011 by Paul Stainthorp

The Lexis®Library service now offers the facility to export records to RefWorks. This is excellent news: student and staff users of RefWorks have been asking about the option to transfer records from Lexis for several years.

Here’s how it’s done:

Log in to Lexis®Library via the University Portal. If you’re off campus, you’ll need to log in using your network\accountID and password. Once you’ve logged in, perform your search for case law, legislation, legal commentary, or newspaper sources.
From the search results, select the records you want to export to RefWorks by ticking the box next to each record:
Then, from the right-hand side of the Lexis®Library search results page, click on the ‘Export Bibliographic References’ icon (which looks like a small book):
A new, small window should appear in the middle of the screen, headed ‘Export Bibliographic References’. Click on the ’Export’ button. N.B. you may need to add the website www.lexisnexis.com to the list of allowed sites in your browser’s pop-up blocking settings.
You should then be sent to RefWorks. If you are not already logged in to your RefWorks account, you will probably need to follow the Athens login process, documented here.
Assuming all goes well, RefWorks will import the records you chose to export from Lexis®Library, and will tell you when the import has been successfully completed.

LexisLibrary is a legal and news/current affairs database providing access to a range of case law, legislation, commentary, current awareness, and newspaper services. Includes the full text of volumes 1-50 of Halsbury’s Laws of England (an authoritative narrative covering every aspect of English statute and case law), up-to-date legislation containing over 18,000 full text acts, and the All England Law Reports. LexisLibrary also provides access via a ‘News’ tab to full-text newspaper articles from national, local and regional UK newspapers.

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If it’s DreamSpark, it must be October…

Posted on October 4th, 2010 by Paul Stainthorp

October is the month when n-hundred first-year students on journalism, media, and computing programmes seem all at once to discover Microsoft’s DreamSpark software offer.

DreamSpark provides access to a range of professional Microsoft tools (including MS Visual Studio, MS SQL server, and XNA Game Studio), all free to students in the UK. Unfortunately it’s not particularly obvious how to get access; the registration process is not very easy to follow.

So: step-by-step registration instructions for students at the University of Lincoln are below (originally blogged in 2008 and now updated). For help with this process, please contact either:

Paul Stainthorp, Electronic Resources Librarian, tel: (01522) 88 6193.
Mark Aldridge, Learning Adviser, tel: (01522) 88 6877.

Before you start: if you don’t already have one, you’ll first need to sign up for a Windows Live ID / MSN account. (Windows Live ID is a single-sign on username & password that you can use to access various Microsoft websites and services, including Hotmail, MSN Messenger, and Xbox LIVE.) You can register for a Windows Live ID at: https://accountservices.passport.net/

Here’s how to register and download the software, in 13 ‘easy’ steps:

Go to: https://www.dreamspark.com/
Click on ‘Sign In’ from the left-hand menu.
Log in using your Windows Live ID username & password.
You should be directed back to the DreamSpark website. Click on ‘Get Verified’ from the left-hand menu.
From the ‘Get Verified…’ page, select the following options, then click on ‘Continue’:
- What country do you live in? United Kingdom
- How would you like to verify? Verify as a Student
- How would you like to verify your account? Get verified through my School
Select ‘University of Lincoln’ from the ‘School Selector’ list, then click on ‘Continue’.
You should now be directed to an ‘Athens login’ page. From this page, click on ‘Alternative login’.
From the ‘Find your organisation’ page, type the words University of Lincoln in the quick search box and click on ‘Go’.
From the list of search results, click on ‘University of Lincoln’ (it should be the first option in the list).
Next, click on ‘Go to the University of Lincoln login page »’.
Log in using your University of Lincoln login details (just as for the University of Lincoln Portal, i.e. username: network\accountID plus your usual University password).
You should see the message “Please wait while we transfer you”, before being redirected back to the DreamSpark website (showing a ‘Congratulations’ message).
Click on ‘View All Products to Download’. You should now be able to download and install all of the DreamSpark software packages.