RefWorks

RefWorks is an online research management, writing and collaboration tool, it is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies. 

Users’ reference databases are stored online, allowing them to be accessed and updated from any computer with an internet connection. Institutional licenses allow universities to subscribe to RefWorks on behalf of all their students, faculty and staff. Individual licenses are also available. The software enables linking from a user’s RefWorks account to electronic editions of journals to which the institution’s library subscribes.

A word processor integration utility called Write-N-Cite enables users to insert reference codes from their RefWorks accounts into Microsoft Word documents, which can then be formatted to produce in-text citations and reference lists in various styles.
RefWorks includes RefGrab-It, a utility designed to capture bibliographic information from websites. (we will be talking about RefGrab-It in our next post).

RefWorks was founded in 2001 and was marketed by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts from 2002 until being acquired by ProQuest in 2008.

Access to RefWorks