We are pleased to be able to provide to the regional research community a citation and reference database accumulated by RRI faculty and staff over the past few decades. There are nearly 12,000 citations in the collection. While some were entered by hand, the bulk of the references were collected via automated reference alerting systems. Because these alerting systems respond to key word search and selection criteria, however, there will be some number of references that are not particularly, if at all related to regional research. RRI Staff have put a great deal of effort into purging irrelevant entries, but there is no doubt that many still remain. Although the database is highly reliable, we make no claim to, nor do we take responsibility for the accuracy of the entries.

There are three downloadable files below. The first is a file that includes references acquired as of Spring 2007. The second is a supplemental file with references acquired since the first file was generated and up through the end of July 2007, the third is a cumulative file with all the references we have collected as of July 2007. We will maintain previous versions, 6-month supplements, and cumulative files for download. The reason for maintaining previous versions of the files is that some users may modify the first file they download, possibly purging additional references, and we don't want to re-introduce unwanted references to those who've spent time this way. The file names should be sufficient to identify their content and when they were posted. We intend to continue providing supplementary files every six months, resources permitting, containing new references since the previous posting.

The files are in a tagged (Refer) format suitable for import to many reference management databases, including Endnote.

Click on the file names to download:

Spring07All.txt
Summer07New.txt
Summer07All.txt


We hope you find the database useful, and welcome your comments and suggestions.

If you have reference libraries with relevant references that would supplement our collection, we'd be happy to receive them from you and add them to the RRI collection and future supplement postings. Please mail to, or for instructions or info contact: rri@mail.wvu.edu.