First, let me say that I finally did work out all the problems. Second, I am inclined never to go through the remote server again. Yes, I'm exaggerating, but it was a pretty frustrating experience.
For those of you who don't know, assignment #2 requires us to use Refworks to organize and export 15 citations each from Scopus and Google Scholar. Considering that I already do some reference work at my library, this did not seem threatening. What I did not count on was my school's remote server logging me out every 5 minutes. I almost switched over to my workplace's server except that I was determined to make the other one work. After an hour, I had my Scopus citations.
The next day, I worked on the Google Scholar portion. That, thankfully, was only dependent on Refworks staying logged in. Someone posted in our Blackboard forum about problems with exporting into Refworks, so I only had to have a few minutes of frustration when that happened.
The assignment is done, but I don't see myself using Refworks unless I have a massive amount of citations. It just seems faster to save the citations to my Evernote account and adjust them myself.
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