Databases Tutorials: RefWorks

RefWorks is an online research tool to help you manage your references when writing and collaborating with fellow researchers. RefWorks organizes, stores, and shares all types of information, and can instantly create citations and bibliographies.

Access RefWorks at http://refworks.proquest.com. 

In this video, you'll learn how RefWorks can help you throughout your research workflow. Finding, saving, and organizing references is easy and efficient. Sharing your research and citing references in your writing takes just a few clicks. .

This RefWorks training session will cover how to access RefWorks, including creating a new account, and accessing through single sign-on at your institution.

This RefWorks training session will cover the basic functionality of the RefWorks website. We won't cover all the features available to you, but we'll look at the ones you will use most frequently in RefWorks as you conduct your research. 

This RefWorks training sessions covers ways to export references from other systems, so users can import them into RefWorks.

This RefWorks training session will cover several different ways to add references directly into RefWorks, including uploading a document, importing references from a file, creating a reference manually, and searching library databases for references.

This RefWorks training session will cover ways to organize your references into folders, including sharing folders with other researchers.

This RefWorks training session will cover several tools you can use when writing a research paper and using RefWorks to supply citations and bibliographies. We'll be showing RefWorks Citation Manager, Write-N-Cite, ProQuest RefWorks for Google Docs, and Quick Cite.

This RefWorks training session will guide you through all the APA 7th citation style versions available in RefWorks.

This training session will cover how to edit references in RefWorks, including correcting metadata before and after saving to RefWorks, adding tags, editing many references at once, and more.

This RefWorks training session will show how to edit citation styles, including editing styles for yourself or your institution using the Citation Style Editor in RefWorks, and editing styles for the open-source Citation Style Language project.

If you have many references or have added references in bulk from several sources, checking for duplicates in your collection can be helpful. This video provides an overview of the process for finding duplicate references in an entire RefWorks Project or a specific folder or sub-folder.

This RefWorks training session will cover ways to collaborate with colleagues by sharing references, folders, and even entire projects.

This RefWorks training session will cover ways to organize your references using Projects.