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Refworks

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Date/Time: April 3, 2007; 12-1pm; G580 Dent
Title: Using Refworks to Manage Your Literature
Presenter: Pat Redman

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Text of Slides:

Slide 1: Using To Manage Your Literature Pat Redman Taubman Medical Library Health Sciences Libraries © 2007 Regents of the University of Michigan. All rights reserved.

Slide 2: What is RefWorks? Database software ....provided by the Library ....accessible via the web

Slide 3: Why use RefWorks? * To organize your references....like an electronic filing cabinet * To import your database search results * To format your papers and bibliographies according to journal/style specifications * To share references for team or department projects

Slide 4: Access on campus: http://www.refworks.com/refworks

Slide 5: Login Center

Slide 6: RefWorks Tutorial & FAQ

Slide 7: Tutorial Basics

Slide 8: Highlighted Tutorials

Slide 9: OVID Medline Search

Slide 10: Direct Export

Slide 11: Export Results to RefWorks

Slide 12: Import from OVID

Slide 13: Last Imported Folder

Slide 14: Descriptors View

Slide 15: Citation View

Slide 16: Recapping * Direct Export is easy but not available in all databases. It is in UM-Medsearch, PsycInfo and Dissertation Abstracts. * For other databases such as PubMed and Web of Knowledge, save your results as a text file and use File-Import in RefWorks.

Slide 17: Now in PubMed

Slide 18: File - Save As

Slide 19: Import Filters

Slide 20: Manually Adding a Reference

Slide 21: Use the Folders menu to create folders and organize your references

Slide 22: Create New Folders

Slide 23: Use the Search menu to Lookup

Slide 24: So far we've: * Built our RefWorks library with references from UM-Medsearch and PubMed * Learned how to add a reference manually * Used folders to organize our references * Looked at the Search menu Now let's format a paper!

Slide 25: Choose Cite View

Slide 26: Open Word File

Slide 27: Place Cursor, Click Cite, Selection Citation

Slide 28: Drag & Drop Drag and drop Citation into Word document

Slide 29: Clear between cites

Slide 30: Save & close your paper

Slide 31: Creating a bibliography

Slide 32: RefWorks renames file

Slide 33: Important! * Autism.doc is not formatted by RefWorks * Final-Autism.doc is formatted by RefWorks If you want to make changes, make them to Autism.doc and then reformat in RefWorks again.

Slide 34: Need help? * Online: remember the Tutorial & FAQ * Call or email us: Ð 763-3071 Ð medical.library@umich.edu * Contact me directly: Ð Pat Redman pmr@umich.edu