Burlington Textiles Library:

Textile Engineering 302

RefWorks

Online guide: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/guides/refworks

First Steps: NCSU Libraries Website

The library’s home page: www.lib.ncsu.edu

Click on “RefWorks”

Keeping track of all of your research

How do you save all your research work?Bookmarking webpages is unstable, no easy way

to organizeNotecards are great until one day you leave

them on the bus…“Citation management software”

– Saves all references from most databases in ONE place

How Citation Managers WorkWeb of Science

CAB abstracts

Saved citations

Other databases and

sources

Saved citations

Books from catalog

Saved citations

ONE PLACE-Access from anywhere

- Links back to articles, saved PDFs

-Organize citations into multiple folders

-Create bibliographies

Export:

Different productsRefWorks

– Free for NCSU students, internet-based, available through Libraries’ site

– Library support available!Zotero

– Free, browser-based, works with Firefox– Library support available!

EndNote– Costs $100+, standalone software installed on your

computerNo choice is permanent! Easy to export between

them if your needs change

Different products

We’ll talk about RefWorks today– Easy to use and demonstrate– Stable– Free– Recommended for anyone

If you think another product suits your work better later on, it’s easy to change

RefWorks account

Let’s take a few minutes now to create a RefWorks account…

Not related to unity ID/password– It can be, but probably shouldn’t

For TE302, you’re required to use a specific password: te302

It’s easy to organize all references into folders

How do you save things in RefWorks?

In general:

1. Export citations to a file.

2. Go into RefWorks.

3. Import.

Exporting and importing

Usually straightforward

Just follow a few steps, no specialized computing skills required

Let’s see how to do it in a couple of different databases…

Creates a file containing your references

Exporting usually requires a couple of steps, but pretty straightforward

Then from within RefWorks, import the file

Just specify the database you pulled the references from

Getting citations into RefWorks

Exporting/importing requires slightly different steps depending on the database– But conceptually, always the same– Look for specific instructions in the RefWorks

guide

Some databases make it even easier…

Even easier:

Some databases support direct exporting into

RefWorks

Manual creation of references

Not recommended, but sometimes necessary…

Note you can also edit existing references– This is more common– Mostly it’s just good to know what kind of

information is actually saved in here– You may need to edit citations manually –

importing isn’t always perfect

Extra stuff you can do

Find saved papers with FindText linkShare an account

– Work with a group on a research project• Everyone can save to the same account, create a shared literature

database

Create a bibliographyRef-Grab-ItWrite-N-Cite

Write-N-Cite

An extension for MS Word that integrates your RefWorks citations

Add references to text as you write

See Write-N-Cite in action:http://screencast.com/t/mem8RR4w

You CAN take it with you

Accounts are through the library, but you can export your work– Take it with you to other institutions or other

software and import

Getting help later

NCSU Libraries’ guides:http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/guides/refworks/http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/guides/zotero

Ask-A-Librarianhttp://www.lib.ncsu.edu/libref

Reference & Research Assistance

In-person, Telephone, E-mail

Honora Eskridgehonora_eskridge@ncsu.eduPhone: 919 | 515-6120

Greg Tourino greg_tourino@ncsu.edu Phone: 919 | 513-3862

David Zwickydavid_zwicky@ncsu.eduPhone: 919 | 515-6602