1. RefWorks Rapid Review for Student Nurses

2. 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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4. What is Refworks?
One of many “citation management tools”. Others include EndNote, Mendeley, Zotero etc.
Web-based, well 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

5. Where is Refworks? Web-based, with links from Penn libraries site
There’s an “old” version of refworks. This presentation is about “new” refworks
“New” refworks is at this link:

6. How do I use RefWorks?
Create an account:
Use your U. Penn 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.

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

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

10. Exporting from other resources

11. Exporting at the article level

12. 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

13. Can you show us how it works?

14. 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:

15. Any Questions?

16. Nursing Liaison Librarian
Contact Information
Richard James
Nursing Liaison Librarian
Biomedical Library
@pennnursinglib