Doing a search in Bibliographyof British and Irish history and exporting references to the Refworks database

Log on via the Portal withyour network username and password

Click on Learning Resources tab

Under Library Databasesclick on B and selectBibliography ofBritish and Irish History

Please note

You can do a simpleor an advanced search

This what the advanced search screen looks like

This the simple search screen. We will do a simple search using the keyword plantation

Total number of hits forplantation

When you finish typing in you search term you get a drop down menu suggesting alternative search terms. We will select Plantation,Ulster

Total numberof hits for

Plantation, Ulster

Click on search to see the hits

These are the first 6 of the106 hits

We will select number 4

We are told this is a journal article

The article is from the journalHistory Ireland

If we click on the journal title we get all the articlesfrom the journalindexed by BBIH

There is full text online access via the JSTOR database.We subscribe to JSTOR.If you click on this linkyou are taken to a list of theHistory of Ireland holdings inJSTOR

Here are the links to the holding.The article is in Vol. 15 Issue 4 2007

Alternatively click on Find It

If you click hereyou will go directly

to the article

This is the firstpage of the article

These are all hyperlinks

For exampleif we click on Raymond Gillespie we get all articles & book chaptersby him indexed in BBIH

Here are the first 4 of 194 items indexed under his name

If we click on Chichester we get itemsabout him

We will click on this item formore information

Once again we will click on Find Itto see if the item is inthe Library system

This item is a book

The Library do not have everything which is indexed in BBIH.In this case if you want to see the bookapply for it through the Library’sDocument Delivery service.

The Library subscribes to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography onlinedatabase. If you click on this link you get access to the article aboutChichester.

Here is the beginning of the article

These are quick links to sections in the article.

And here are links back toBBIH and to theNational Archives

• You may wish to gather references for a bibliography.

• There are various reference management systems. The Library subscribes to the Refworks system.

• The following slides will illustrate how to organise your references in Refworks

Here are 6 of our Ulster Plantation hits

We will select 5 of these records

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We can view the selectedrecords

This is the first of our 5 records. This oneIs an article in a book

We can export our references to Refworks from our previous brief list of titles or from this list.

To do this click on export

To export select Refworks and click onExport

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Now click on SAVE

Save to the Desktop

Here is the file name

Click on Save

Here is our file on the Desktop

And this is what it looks like in Notepad.This will change once we export to Refworks

We now need to open up Refworks.

To do this logon via the Portal, select the Learning Resources tab, and under Library databases select Refworks

If you haven’t already registered with

Refworks you will be asked to do so.

At a drop down menu under ReferencesSelect Import

Change Import filter/dataSource and Database to InternationalMedieval Bibliography

Now click on Browse

Select the file and then clickon Open

The file is now ready toImport

Click on Import

You now get this screen.To see the references click onView last imported folder

Here are the 5 imported references

We will create a folder calledPlantation. To do this click on Folders,and at the drop down menu selectCreate new folder

Name the folderand click on OK

These are the 5 references.We will put all 5 in thePlantation folder

We will selectall in the list

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Click on the arrowat the Put in folder box

From the drop down menuselect the Plantation folder

When you get this click on OK

You then get this message

Now go to either View or Foldersand select Plantation fromthe drop down menus

Here is the Plantation folder

Now click on Bibliography

Here is the Bibliography screen

Click on the arrow for a drop down menu of output styles and select the style you want.

Always check with your lecturer forthe preferred departmental style

We will stay with Harvard, British standard

Click on the arrow beside choose a folder andthen select plantation

Now click on Create Bibliography

Here are the Plantation references in the Harvard referencing style.You can add and delete references from the folder.You can also change the referencing style at any time.