RefWorks
Welcome to the RefWorks course of the University Library (UL) of the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
This course is a part of the Information literacy modular training method. The menu on the left of this screen shows the table of contents of this course.
After going through the RefWorks course, you will be able to:
- Create a RefWorks account.
- Import references from databases and catalogues into RefWorks.
- Manage imported references in your RefWorks database.
- Use RefWorks for correct citations and references in bibliographies and texts.
- Share your references with other people.
This course is accompanied by a file with step-by-step guides on how to export references from the UL-databases to RefWorks. You can download this file and use it for reference.
This course is based on RefWorks Classic, an interface that’s available until the end of 2011. The new interface, RefWorks 2.0, is also available. Until the end of 2011 both versions of RefWorks can be used: in the right upper corner of RefWorks Classic you find the link to RefWorks 2.0, in RefWorks 2.0 there is a link to Refworks Classic. RefWorks remembers which version of RefWorks was used the last time, that version is opened when you login the next time. |
Searching for information: a searchplan
Since information can be found in different ways and in many sources, it is useful to draw up a search plan. A search plan (or step-by-step plan) adds structure to your search process, defines the question and indicates the start and end of the search. Registering your search results is also a part of this search plan.
Below you can see where this course, and the use of RefWorks, fits into the whole process of searching for literature. To make the most of RefWorks you should use the program in the step 'Searching', by exporting the titles found in a database or catalogue to your database.
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