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16/10/2019 21:10

Norman Gibbs

Joined: 15/07/2019

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Reimporting RIS to clean up bibliographical records Modified By Norman Gibbs on 16/10/2019 20:11:24

If we have a RIS file that includes the EPPI Id number (which EPPI writes to the U1 field when exported), is there some way to update the records in EPPI with the content from the modified RIS data? We have a fair amount of reference cleanup that is much faster to do in an external editor.

17/10/2019 20:15

Zak Ghouze

Joined: 20/03/2017

Posts: 165

Re: Reimporting RIS to clean up bibliographical records Modified By Zak Ghouze on 17/10/2019 19:18:34

Dear Norman,

Unfortunately the software would give the imported items new, unique, Internal IDs. The modified U1 field in your RIS file would become the Imported ID...

You could edit the RIS file exported from EPPI Reviewer in your chosen editor, delete the original items from your review in EPPI Reviewer (or start a new review), then import the edited file... You'd have all your edited items, just with different internal IDs. It's feasible you could even leave the original items as they were, import the edited RIS file, then look for duplicates and remove or mark the originals that way...

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EPPI Support

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