Managing your references - RefWorks

If you've ever struggled last minute to sort your references to add as a bibliography to a dissertation or literature review, or organise your references for publication in a journal, or even just wondered how to organise your references without having to type in each one by hand then RefWorks is just what you are looking for.

RefWorks helps to manage your references in the same way that Endnote or Reference Manager would. You can download and import your references (including abstracts) direct from the databases (Medline, Cinahl, Cochrane, PubMed) and import them into Refworks. From there you can;

• organise your references into folders
• delete duplicates
• search for authors
• edit your references
• create a bibliography in an output format of your choosing (Harvard, Vancouver, BMJ, etc).

It's easy to use and as it is web-based you can access it from home or the workplace without the need for CDs. Trust staff at UHA, The Walton Centre or Sefton PCT can now access this resource via the library catalogue. RefWorks training will be provided alongside the next group of information skills workshops, dates will be advertised via this blog, the LIRC website, in the LIRC and via T&D. In the meantime handouts on using RefWorks are available in the LIRC.