Some advantages of using the Reference Manager Web Publishing interface

• The ITM Reference Manager databases are generally more up-to-date than the ERL WebSpirs databases.
• If you have your own Reference Manager installation, records from the ITM Library databases can be imported seamlessly in your personal databases.

Some disadvantages of using the Reference Manager Web Publishing interface

• Reaction times of the system are substantially lower than for ERL WebSpirs. It will take more time to do searches and view results.
• Display options are rather limited. If, however, you import the selected references to your own Reference Manager installation, formatting options again become very rich

Advice: use the Advanced Search mode instead of Quick Search

• Select the database of choice and ignore the other databases.
• Specify individual fields to search in.
• Combine search terms with boolean operators 'AND', 'OR', 'NOT'.
• 'Indexed fields': using '*' for truncation will generally give you more results.
• 'Non-indexed fields': here truncation is automatic and should not be added explicitely. Also left-hand truncation is active.

Access the ITM Library databases with Reference Manager Web Publisher

Annex: selected field codes