Tired of keeping track of references on index cards? Frustrated with formatting your bibliographies?
RefWorks can help! It's a Web-based personal database for storing, organizing, and formatting you citations, which now is licensed for all Temple students, faculty, and staff.
Shared RefWorks Folders from Temple
Warning to Write-N-Cite (WNC) Users: If you are using MS Word 2007 you must also by using WNC III (download it here). WNC III is NOT yet installed on public terminals in the library and so is not usable on those computers (all of which have MS Word 2007 installed).
Note, 12-4-08: There is currently a problem with WNC III in which it does not recognize the MS Word document and fails to insert in-text citations. Refworks is working to resolve the problem. As a workaround Refworks recommends: "First, the user open their Task Manager and shut down every Write-N-Cite process that might be running. Then open MS Word and then the Write-N-Cite plug-in. The other method is to restart the computer which will achieve the same results as using the Task Manager."
RefWorks allows you to:
- Create a personal database online - Store an unlimited number of records accessible from any computer linked to the Internet. No downloading software or installation required.
- Import references automatically from multiple databases - RefWorks can import search results from a wide variety of databases with the click of a button.
- Organize references - Sort and search your stored references quickly and easily by author, subject, or periodical title.
- Format bibliographies and manuscripts in seconds - Save hours of typing and decrease the number of errors in creating tedious bibliographies. Easily make changes and reformat your bibliography in seconds.
- Attach files to your citations - You are allotted 100MB of file storage for attaching files (of up to 5MB each) to your citations, including PDFs, images, audio, video, etc.
- Students - It provides folders to store information by class. AccuCite helps make sure that you have all the citation details you need to generate an accurate, concise bibliography.
- Researchers - It's the perfect tool for storing and sharing a personal database of citations and downloading bibliographies in multiple formats based on the needs of specific journals.
- Faculty - Not only is it a personal citation manager - it also allows read-only access for class-related bibliographies.
RefShare
RefShare allows you to share your RefWorks bibliographies with other users both in and outside the University. Shared bibliographies can be hidden, requiring that you give a URL to another user, or they can appear on the Temple RefShare page for anyone to find and access.
You can control how much access others have to your bibliography, including whether they can export the citations. Commenting can be turned on for shared bibliographies as can RSS feeds for notification of newly added references.
One example of researchers sharing their bibliographies through RefShare is the Temple Music Therapy Database.
For more information see these Tutorials on using RefShare.
Write-N-Cite
RefWorks Write-N-Cite utility allows RefWorks users to access their bibliographies from within Microsoft Word. This enables easier creation of in-text citations as well as works cited pages or bibliographies. You must have a RefWorks account to use Write-N-Cite.
Write-N-Cite can be downloaded here. (If you are using MS Word 2007 be sure to download Write-N-Cite III.)
To set up Write-N-Cite to work from off-campus, you must adjust the proxy settings. Instructions follow for Window and Macintosh users.
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For more on using Write-N-Cite see RefWorks' documentation.
RefWorks Support
For technical support with RefWorks, contact Fred Rowland