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Hello and welcome to FSU Libraries Web Tutorials. Today we’re going to get a short introduction
to RefWorks. To begin with, we will navigate to the FSU
Library Homepage, lib.fsu.edu. RefWorks can be found under the “Help with Research”
column in the “Citation Management” link. RefWorks is a citation manager that allows
you to import, organize and store references from the catalog, databases and Google Scholar.
RefWorks also creates a bibliography in any format from the references you have imported.
This first tutorial shows you how to access Refworks and import sources from the different
locations. From this “Citation Management” page you
can create a RefWorks account as well as log in to your account. If you do not have a RefWorks
account it will only take a few minutes to create one.
I am going to log into a practice account and show you how to import references from
the catalog and the Academic Search Complete database. Once logged in, use another tab
to search the catalog and databases for your references.
If you are working from off campus you will have to first log-in through the “Off-campus
access” link on the top right of the page. From the catalog we can search like normal,
in this example we are searching for information on “cars” under the libraries catalog
system. The left-hand side of the screen shows the ways we can refine our search. We can
limit by full-text, peer reviewed, publication dates, locations, or content types such as
articles, books, dissertations, and more. In this instance, we will revise our criteria
to only books and journal articles. Once we find the source that we like, click on the
folder icon. The citation is stored in our temporary saved items folder at the bottom
of the page. By clicking the “saved items” we can view our citation and export it directly
to refworks by clicking the refworks link. From here we can sort the citations into folders
or just leave them and continue searching. This time let’s search in the database Academic
Search Complete. In the Academic Search Complete database we
are going to search for “cars” and then hit search. From our large number of results
we are going to want to cut those results down and then search for articles we would
like to export. Once you find a result, click on the link to bring up more options, including
the ‘export’ link. Once you click on the link, select from the list RefWorks and click
save. This concludes our introduction to Refworks.
We encourage you to watch the next video to see how to create folders and a bibliography.