Reference Manager
Resolving problems with searching
WebCat from within Ref Man
October 2012
University Library
Searching WebCat in Ref Man
 There can be a problem searching
WebCat from inside Reference Manager
– All searches give no results
 This should be already fixed on public
workstations
 For staff and home PCs you may need to
fix it yourself
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Solution 1
- quicker
though less likely to work on
non centrally managed machines
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Type the following into the
run menu
\\soton.ac.uk\ude\apps\Bibliographic
Software\Reference Manager\12.03\
Copy the file
BkwrAPI.z39
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Paste BkwrAPI.z39 (overwriting existing file) into:
C:\Users\Public\Documents\Reference Manager 12\BkWrAPI\
Then Restart the computer
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Solution 2 –
takes
longer but should work on all
machines
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Click to go to the
search window if
needed
Tick Internet
Search and
choose z39.50 as
usual
Click the Hosts
icon
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Click Configure
Hosts
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Find the
University of
Southampton
…
… Select us
and click
Properties
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Change the
Port Number
to 2200 and
click OK
Click
OK
again
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