RefWorks Rapid Review for Student Nurses

Goals How is RefWorks useful to you? Finding the site and creating an account Various ways of importing citations and articles Add-ons and additional services Demo Questions?

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What is Refworks? One of many “citation management tools”. Others include EndNote, Mendeley, Zotero etc. Web-based, well supported @Penn, a good basic research tool. Records citations and full-text of articles for your research projects Formats citations for you in multiple styles (APA, MLA, and many more) Creates and formats bibliographies and reference pages for your papers Available to alumni

Where is Refworks? Web-based, with links from Penn libraries site http://www.library.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/findit/uniqueWidget?query=refworks There’s an “old” version of refworks. This presentation is about “new” refworks “New” refworks is at this link: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/13307/1

How do I use RefWorks? Create an account: http://guides.library.upenn.edu/citationmgmt/transition Use your U. Penn email address to simplify the registration process Useful to create some folders ahead of time As you perform your lit searches, export citations to RefWorks before final review and selection Export all pertinent findings from different databases, and use RefWorks to deal with duplicates Different databases and publishers have different export features.

PubMed Export In PubMed: check-off articles and “send to: citation manager”

PubMed Export File is downloaded to your computer- has to be imported manually in RefWorks (basically a drag-and-drop feature)

Exporting from other resources

Exporting at the article level

Are there other useful features and tools? Plug-ins for Word and Google Docs- adds citations and footnotes as you write, from your RefWorks account Browser plug-in for direct export with full-text Archive for full-text articles Deduplicate articles added from different databases Share folders and articles with colleagues Simple search of PubMed directly from RefWorks Note: some features may require a Group Code to access- RWUpenn

Can you show us how it works? https://refworks.proquest.com/

Alternatives to RefWorks Mendley, Zotero, EndNote etc.: competing products each with its own unique functions and niche. Data privacy concerns with “social-academic” platforms and Google Spectrum between freeware and pay-for-features Comparison chart of product features available at: http://guides.library.upenn.edu/citationmgmt

Any Questions?

Nursing Liaison Librarian Contact Information Richard James Nursing Liaison Librarian Biomedical Library rjame@upenn.edu 215-746-4034 @pennnursinglib