Interdisciplinary Humanities 291 (Zanzucchi)

RefWorks is subscription tool that the library pays for. All UC Merced students, faculty and staff can create an account. RefWorks helps you:

• Export citations from library databases and websites
• Generate in-text citations
• Create bibliographies
• Share references with others
• Communicate with software like Microsoft Word

RefWorks sign-up or login.

About:

• Online only (no desktop software)
• Subscribed to by the UC Merced Library
• Can create own account OR set-up with single sign-on
• Using latest version (blue not orange) https://refworks.proquest.com/

Features:

• Tools include "Save to RefWorks" bookmarklet (capture web pages) and Word Add-In or Google Doc Add-In  to write and cite
• Allows sharing at three levels (Can read, Can annotate, Can modify)
• Allowing attaching / dragging in PDFs; often metadata is extracted from PDFs
• Allows for annotating documents; however documents will print "clean"
• Citations in main window can be viewed in four ways: Normal, table, full, and citation.  Use citation view to change "Citation Style".
• Citation Style Editor (under "Create Bibliography") allows customization to a citation style.
• Online only feature eliminates syncing issues
• Likely thousands of styles

Limitations:

• CSL styles may be more accurate than non-CSL styles.
• Footnotes/Endnotes require using Word functionality to choose footnote/endnote before inserting the citation.
• Speed may sometimes be an issue
• Recommendation to upload single documents at a time

Visit the New RefWorks YouTube Channel for more videos on learning how to use RefWorks.

For RefWorks technical support, contact ExLibris/ProQuest.

Phone: 1-800-521-0600  (ProQuest)

• Currently, you will proceed through a phone tree.
• #3 & #7 (current phone tree as of 26 Feb. 2019)

Email: refworks.support@exlibrisgroup.com