Burlington Textiles Library: Textile Engineering 302

Burlington Textiles Library:Textile Engineering 302 RefWorks Online guide: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/guides/refworks

First Steps:NCSU Libraries Website The library’s home page: www.lib.ncsu.edu Click on “RefWorks”

Keeping track of all of your research • How do you save all your research work? • Bookmarking webpages is unstable, no easy way to organize • Notecards are great until one day you leave them on the bus… • “Citation management software” • Saves all references from most databases in ONE place

How Citation Managers Work Other databases and sources Saved citations Web of Science CAB abstracts Saved citations Books from catalog Saved citations Export: • ONE PLACE • Access from anywhere • Links back to articles, saved PDFs • Organize citations into multiple folders • Create bibliographies

Different products • RefWorks • Free for NCSU students, internet-based, available through Libraries’ site • Library support available! • Zotero • Free, browser-based, works with Firefox • Library support available! • EndNote • Costs $100+, standalone software installed on your computer • No choice is permanent! Easy to export between them if your needs change

Different products • We’ll talk about RefWorks today • Easy to use and demonstrate • Stable • Free • Recommended for anyone • If you think another product suits your work better later on, it’s easy to change

RefWorks account • Let’s take a few minutes now to create a RefWorks account… • Not related to unity ID/password • It can be, but probably shouldn’t • For TE302, you’re required to use a specific password: te302

It’s easy to organize all references into folders

How do you save things in RefWorks? In general: • Export citations to a file. • Go into RefWorks. • 3. Import.

Exporting and importing • Usually straightforward • Just follow a few steps, no specialized computing skills required • Let’s see how to do it in a couple of different databases…

Creates a file containing your references Exporting usually requires a couple of steps, but pretty straightforward

Then from within RefWorks, import the file Just specify the database you pulled the references from

Getting citations into RefWorks • Exporting/importing requires slightly different steps depending on the database • But conceptually, always the same • Look for specific instructions in the RefWorks guide • Some databases make it even easier…

Even easier: Some databases support direct exporting into RefWorks

Manual creation of references • Not recommended, but sometimes necessary… • Note you can also edit existing references • This is more common • Mostly it’s just good to know what kind of information is actually saved in here • You may need to edit citations manually – importing isn’t always perfect

Extra stuff you can do • Find saved papers with FindText link • Share an account • Work with a group on a research project • Everyone can save to the same account, create a shared literature database • Create a bibliography • Ref-Grab-It • Write-N-Cite

Write-N-Cite • An extension for MS Word that integrates your RefWorks citations • Add references to text as you write • See Write-N-Cite in action: http://screencast.com/t/mem8RR4w

You CAN take it with you • Accounts are through the library, but you can export your work • Take it with you to other institutions or other software and import

Getting help later NCSU Libraries’ guides: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/guides/refworks/ http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/guides/zotero Ask-A-Librarian http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/libref

Reference & Research Assistance • In-person, Telephone, E-mail Honora Eskridgehonora_eskridge@ncsu.edu Phone: 919 | 515-6120 Greg Tourino greg_tourino@ncsu.edu Phone: 919 | 513-3862 David Zwickydavid_zwicky@ncsu.edu Phone: 919 | 515-6602

Burlington Textiles Library: Textile Engineering 302