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This ProQuest Dialog™ At a Glance short module shows how to gather, organize and save your search results and it demonstrates the ease with which you can create professional-grade documents.
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On ProQuest Dialog you do much more than search and retrieve. You have the tools to organize and save your data to be able to analyze, deduce implications, and present your work with a minimum of post-processing. The ability to export records or save as file will save you a lot of time in making your findings presentable to your clients.
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There are two ways to download your data: Export and Save as file. You export to RefWorks, Excel, BizInt, RIS or ASCII. Alternatively, you can save selections in PDF, HTML, RTF and text.
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Create a search, whether in Basic, Advanced or Command Line search. This search on multiple sclerosis and back pain takes place in four key biomedical files: BIOSIS Previews®, Embase®, MEDLINE® and SciSearch®: A Cited Reference Science Database.
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The Results page gives you several options: You can narrow your search results; you can select items to view, save to My Research, email, print, cite, export or save as file. Post-processing tools include Export and Save as file. Select the items you wish to download and click either Export or Save as file.
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First: Export. After clicking Export a dialog box appears where you can choose how much of the records you wish to download, whether just titles, publication date and what you see in a results listing only, brief citations or full records. Then choose the application to which you wish to export the data. For example, choose Excel to create a spreadsheet. Click Continue to proceed.
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The resulting spreadsheet, following some quick tailoring with row sizes and hiding some columns, such as accession numbers, allows you to give an overview of scientific, technical, medical review articles and available treatments, authors and dates.
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If you subscribe to RefWorks or other citation management tools, you can use the export feature and choose the appropriate destination, such as RefWorks. Decide how much of the record content you wish to export. Click Continue.
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A new window opens with a login screen to RefWorks. Choose the appropriate access and enter your RefWorks UserID and password.
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RefWorks indicates it has completed the import of X number of references. Click View Last Imported Folder.
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Your references appear. You can view the references, select and store them in folders and work with them as desired.
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This shows a view of the first record. Notice the hyperlinks that allow you to search authors and journals in your RefWorks collection.
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If you wish to save your retrieval as PDF, HTML, RTF or text, click Save as file.
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A dialog box opens where you can choose record formats, bibliography and style and the file format, such as PDF.
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When you have completed your preferences, click Save.
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If you are a transactional customer a price estimate will appear. Click Continue.
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When you download in PDF, HTML or Rich Text Format, you get a cover page and a table of contents that links to the records you have downloaded. What's more your links to your company's e-journal subscriptions appear, as long as your library's administrator has set this up in ProQuest Administrator Module.
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In a matter of seconds you can select relevant records and produce professional-grade documentation to support your findings and conclusions. Export to Excel, RefWorks, BizInt, RIS or ASCII; Save as file PDF, HTML, RTF or text.
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Thank you for viewing the At a Glance Module showing how to export and save significant records of interest following a search in ProQuest Dialog. Be sure to visit www.dialog.com/proquestdialog, where you will find additional training and support and valuable information on getting the most out of ProQuest Dialog.