Bibliographic management applications (BMA) : Refworks

This is a very important tool we have learnt to use in one of the webconferences.
BMA are tools used to organize the documents you are using in your project and they also help you create the bibliography section.

We will also talk about Zotero and Mendeley soon.

RefWorks – home

If you don’t link your Refworks account to an institution you can still use a 30-day trial account. You can create this account from outside UNED using a group code (you have to ask the UNED library for the code). I have used my UNED account.

RefWorks – create account

RefWorks- Create account 2

You can add your references here:

RefWorks – add reference

Where you can

• add the data manually:

RefWorks – add reference manually

• import it from a file:

RefWorks – import references

• or export the references you want, you can download the file or send it to your e-mail account:
  

  RefWorks – export references

You can also search in your references and in by different parameters, also in several databases and save the results, and even subscribe to RSS feeds.

RefWorks – search

You can create folders here, I have several of them as you can see.

RefWorks – create folder

Here you have the contents of one of them:

RefWorks – one of my folders

There are two tools you can also use: I have not used them yet:

– Write-N-Cite: MS Word plugin which sends your references from Refworks to your document with a few clicks.
– RefGrab-It: browser bookmarklet which captures bibliographic information from web pages and import them to Refworks.

This is one of the most useful tools I have discovered during this course. I think it is very easy to use and great to organize!