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Using Dropbox with RefWorks

 

Read your documents offline - RefWorks Integration with Dropbox


RefWorks allows you to view and read your documents without being connected to the internet using a service called Dropbox. 

You’ll need to download the Dropbox installer and create a Dropbox account which you will link to your RefWorks account.

Note:  Your Institutional Administrator may not make this option available to you.
 
To link RefWorks to Dropbox:

  1. Log into RefWorks.  
  2. Click your name, then select Settings  from the list of options.   You may be asked to provide your password.
  1. Scroll down until you see a section of the page called “Dropbox”.  Click the “Connect” button.
  1. If you have a Dropbox account, enter your login credentials and click “Sign in”.  If you are new to Dropbox, click the “create an account” link on the Dropbox site and download and install Dropbox on your computer. 
  2. You’ll be asked to give RefWorks permission to create a folder in your Dropbox called “ProQuest RefWorks” in your Apps folder.  This is where RefWorks will place a copy of your articles.
You can only store your own articles in Dropbox – articles in shared collections are not included.  All of your articles (regardless of what Collection they are filed in) are saved to your ProQuest RefWorks Dropbox in your Apps folder.

After you first set up your connection from RefWorks to Dropbox, newly uploadeddocuments  you save to RefWorks are automatically saved in Dropbox as well as.  When you remove a document from your RefWorks library, we’ll also remove it from Dropbox as well.
 
To disconnect your RefWorks account from Dropbox:
  1. Log in to RefWorks.
  2. Click your name, then select “Settings”.
  3. Scroll down and click the “Unlink” button in the Dropbox area of the page.