Over the weekend we experienced downtime with RefWorks. The parent company, Proquest, mishandled our renewal and let it be known that St. Thomas decided not to renew our subscription. That is not true. We most certainly renewed the subscription but there was a mix-up at the parent company. We in the libraries apologize for any difficulty this may have caused. Please know that RefWorks has been fully restored and no one lost any content.
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RefWorks
Have you heard of RefWorks but don’t know quite what it is or how to use it?
If so, today is your lucky day!
RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool — it’s designed to help researchers (ahem, that means you!) easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.
In short, RefWorks is something that can save your skin when working on all those pesky research papers that seem to pop up when you just so happen to be a college student.
RefWorks allows you to do all sorts of nifty things, like:
- Create a personal database online where you can store an unlimited amounts of references that are, accessible from any computer without having to download or install any software
- Import references automatically from a wide variety of databases.
- Organize references so that you can sort and search your stored references quickly and easily.
- Format citations and bibliographies instantly in any of hundreds of styles: (APA, MLA, Turabian, etc.)
- Attach files to your citations (100MB of file storage for attaching files at up to 5MB each)
In order to use RefWorks you must create an account. But, thanks to how UST’s subscription is set up, once you have an account it is yours forever!
Find out more on our RefWorks subject guide or by asking your favorite UST librarian! Also keep on the lookout for some “Just in Time” quick workshops in the library throughout the semester about this and other topics!
Database Highlights & Trials
RefWorks Classic says, “Farewell forever”; RefWorks 2.0 says, “Oh, were you still here?”
Attention all you old schoolers out there: RefWorks Classic has at last bid its final adieu! After months of hanging around as an optional click back into familiarity, POOF! It has gone off to sunnier climes.
Have no fear! RefWorks 2.0, which has been the default since last summer, is still there to gather, organize, store, and share all types of your reference information and is just waiting to instantly generate your citations and bibliographies. Watch the video below to discover where all your favorite features have gone off to, and don’t be shy about discovering the new ones. Can I just say, “drag and drop?” Yes, please!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YulwLOzvQ6k&feature=relatedNow to all of you who I can hear… “Say what now? Ref….Woooorks?” If you have no idea what I’m talking about, it is your lucky day! Your information gathering will never be the same again. RefWorks is an online research management, writing, and collaboration tool that will allow you to easily save your citations as you do your research, which will allow you to not only find them again, but will format them for you to instantly generate your citations and bibliographies.
RefWorks has its own channel on YouTube and is a great way to get started. Also, UST libraries has a very helpful guide (in the process of being updated for the new interface), and RefWorks offers its own guide. And of course, our super duper librarian friends are never too far away!