RefWorks is a

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commercial reference management software package. It is produced by

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after it bought

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in 2021. RefWorks LLC was founded in 2001 as a partnership between Earl B. Beutler (development and customer service) and

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(sales and marketing) from 2002 until being acquired by ProQuest in 2008.

Functionality and features

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. The software enables linking from a user's RefWorks account to electronic editions of journals to which the institution's library subscribes. This linking is accomplished by incorporating an institution's

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resolver. Many bibliographic database providers have implemented the ability to export references directly to RefWorks. In some cases (e.g.

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) reference citations must be saved to the user's computer as text files and then imported into RefWorks. In 2005 the bibliographic database

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formed a partnership with RefWorks to allow enhanced integration between the two products. A word processor integration utility called RefWorks Citation Manager (RCM) enables users to insert reference codes from their RefWorks accounts into

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documents, which can then be formatted to produce in-text citations and reference lists in various styles. RefWorks includes Save to RefWorks, a utility designed to capture bibliographic information from websites. , it was optimized to work with

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, PubMed,

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, the

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''. RefWorks-COS launched the current user interface, RefWorks 2.0, in 2010. In 2016, ProQuest launched New RefWorks, featuring new functionality such as the ability to drag and drop PDFs. RefWorks 2.0 was rebranded as Legacy RefWorks and users were given the option of upgrading from Legacy to New RefWorks. Legacy RefWorks was decommissioned in 2023.

References

External links

RefWorksRefWorks - Reference Management (Website)RefWorks - Login page
{{Reference management software ProQuest Reference management software

Functionality and features

See also

References

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