The Life-Changing Magic of Refworks

Posted on September 10, 2019 Written by

Spark joy in your research by attending one of these 20 minute workshops to dramatically improve how you collect, organize, and store your citations by using Refworks.

Refworks is a citation management system.  If you’ve ever used Bibme, Zotero, Mendeley, or Endnote, you have used a citation management system.  Let’s say you find a great article in one of our databases:

Article screenshot titled "On Death and Decluttering: The Existential Tidiness of Marie Kondo

What a great article!  But now you need to save it, store it, organize it, and then eventually cite.  Refworks to the rescue!

By exporting your article into Refworks, you now have a save and secure location to store the article and return to it later.

NOTE: You will need to create your own Refworks account using your tech email BUT NOT your tech password as this system is separate from the university’s. This means if you create a password for Refworks, it will not change with the password changes for your university account.

Image of two versions of Refworks. One that says "Proquest Refworks" and one that says "Legacy Refworks"

You will also be prompted (especially on your initial sign-up) to choose the type of Refworks. Always go for the BLUE, Proquest version if it is your first time creating an account. The Legacy Refworks will be discontinued at some point in the future.

Once in Refworks, you can now organize your citations by folder, add citations from another citation manager, or create a bibliography in any citation style you need with a click of a button.

A screenshot depicting a formatted bibliography based on the above citation.

WARNING: Like all other machine-generated citations, you will need to check them against official style guides. They CAN and DO get them wrong.

To learn more Refworks magic, including how to install the browser plugin for citation collecting on-the-go or how to export citations by adding article PDFs, go to one of the many Refworks Workshops going on this week and next week in RPL 331:

  • Tuesday, Sept. 10th @ 3:00 PM
  • Wednesday, Sept. 11th @ 9:30 AM
  • Wednesday, Sept. 18th @ 1:00 PM
  • Thursday, Sept. 19th @ 9:30 AM

No sign-up required and all are welcome!

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Lost in the Library?

Posted on September 5, 2013 Written by

If you’re new to Tech or just new to the Ross Pendergraft Library, we want to invite you to our Library Resources Workshop on Friday, Sept. 6th.  We are hosting two workshops that day:

  • Student Workshop at 1:00 in room 334
  • Faculty Workshop at 2:00 in room 334

These are hands-on workshops designed to teach you how to get the most from Library services, databases, and other collections.  If you are struggling with research or just want to know what tools we have to make your academic library easier, pop in for a quick demo of some our most useful services and collections.

Can’t make it to one of our workshops?  No problem–we have video tutorials on our library catalog, online resources, the Dewey Decimal system, and ILL.   We also have some research guides geared towards particular subjects and classes.

Still lost?  Contact your friendly neighborhood librarian: askalibrarian@atu.edu.  We can also schedule individual consultations, as well as classroom instruction for faculty members.

 

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