Through a DB like Ebsco mark records and export into Refworks? - Joe

Yes, I think that would be direct export using RIS format etc. - aarontay

Why doesn't mendeley,zotero,wizfolio support RIS directly the way EndNote does? I don't mean you save it as RIS file then go into program and import but rather from the database select export as RIS and instantly bring that in (endnote associates with RIS format?). Other methods are unreliable and not widely supported. extraction of metadata from PDF varies in accuracy, bookmarklet methods rely on data scrapping which breaks all the time etc. - aarontay

Mendeley can handle RIS that way just fine. Simply set Mendeley as the application to handle the RIS filetype. Is this not working for you? - Mr. Gunn

Nope didn't try that. Is there a setting within Mendeley that does this? Or do I have to manually set it up? - aarontay

Sidenote: RIS as a format is really starting to show its age. There's no distinction between author-supplied keywords and usertags, for example. If you're getting your RIS from a third-party service that uses tags (any social bookmarking tool) you have to roundtrip through BibTeX to create a separate field so you can import both author keywords and usertags. That's a failure of the format itself, not the supplying or consuming application. - Mr. Gunn

Hmm didn't work. I should associate it with Mendeleydesktop,exe ? - aarontay

It's not within Mendeley, it's in the OS or browser. You set the association so that instead of saving the file to disk, it gets opened in the application. Mendeley is working on a way to search databases from within Mendeley and handle the import for you, so you don't have to do that. - Mr. Gunn

yes, that's right. - Mr. Gunn