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RefWorks

Ways faculty can reap the benefits of using ProQuest RefWorks

How can faculty use RefWorks?

While RefWorks' primary user pool is students, faculty can also use RefWorks personally as well as in the professor role with students. Below is a bulleted list of ways faculty can use RefWorks. Descriptions of these strategies is included in this guide.

  • Faculty Research - Gather and save research done professionally and personally in RefWorks for access on demand.
  • Cloud based, easy accessible anywhere there is Internet access.
  • Sharing RefWorks Collections - How to do this?
    • Collaborative research with a class. Students can share research & add to a group research collection that is viewable/accessible in each group member's RefWorks account. It's optional for the professor to view these collections to monitor student work and quality of research.
    • Research paper content review. Students can share their research with faculty member simply by sharing the collection link. Rather than having students bringing in physical copies for verification, this option allows faculty to see the research done by students digitally and allows us to be a good steward of the environment.
  • Bibliographies - How to do this?
    • Sources saved in RefWorks can be used to create a research bibliography in the user's choice of style. Note: This does not guarantee the newly created bibliography is fully acceptable in whatever citation style chosen! Users are recommended to review and revise to catch all mistakes.
  • Personal or previously done research can be uploaded into your RefWorks account easily.- How to do this?
  • Users of Zotero, EndNote and other citation generating tools can have previous research imported into RefWorks - How to do this?
  • Integration of ProQuest RefWorks into Word for writing papers - How to do this?

Collection Sharing

SHARING & COLLABORATION

RefWorks allows you to share resources and collaborate with up to 10 people. You can review articles with your peers or your professors; jointly annotate documents with members of your research group or collaborate on papers with researchers from any    institution, anywhere in the world. To share a collection, click on the collection’s name to select it, then

1. Start in your RefWorks account.

2. Click the Share & Export icon top of the page.

3. Choose ‘Share collection’ and then choose what resources you want to share

4. Choose who may join the collection, add an email address

5.  Select the level of access for the person you're inviting:

  • Read – view items and read documents
  • Annotate – view items, read documents, and annotate documents
  • Modify – view/read/annotate documents, edit existing annotations, add documents, remove documents, and add a note to an item

6. Finish by clicking done

The person you've invited will get an email notification, and a notification inside RefWorks, where they can accept (or reject) the invitation. If the person doesn’t have a RefWorks account, they will be asked to create one.

Remember, when you share a collection any sub-collections are also shared.

Viewing a collection's sharing status

To view who you've shared a collection (and what collections you have shared), click "Sharing" and click "options" for the desired collectionClicking on the "Options" link opens the sharing access/invite box where you can modify individual rights, as well as invite others to your collection

You can also:

  • change the sharing from "private" to "institution" (which gives everyone in your institution access to your collection
  • change individual access levels at any time after inviting someone
  • remove individuals from your collection by clicking the 'x' near their email address in the list.