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RefWorks: Guide to Using RefWorks: Video Tutorials

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Tutorials

In this brief introduction to RefWorks, you'll learn how to find and save references while doing your research, how to organize references once they're in RefWorks, and how to cite those references in your writing. After viewing this tutorial, we encourage you to check out the remaining series to learn more about this powerful program.  

Creating References & Adding Documents

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.

Citation Manager

This video we will walk you through the newest features for the latest version of RefWorks, Citation Manager. 

Organizing References with Folders (Sharing)

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

Basic Functionality

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. 

Exporting References

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

Editing References

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.

Writing with RefWorks

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.

RefWorks for Faculty

Learn how reference management services can benefit faculty members.