[ITAB is the Information Technology Advisory Board and was created by the Student Government Association at UM. It is made up of students and technology service providers, mainly from IT.]
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 6:59 AM
To: ITAB@LISTSERV.MIAMI.EDU
Subject: [ITAB] RefWorks, Write-N-Cite, On Line/Cite View
At the meeting last night I mentioned a program that manages your citations and produces a bibliography in whatever format you wish. The program to manage your citations is called RefWorks. The program that integrates with your word processor is Write-N-Cite. It integrates with Microsoft Word on Windows machines. There is also On Line/Cite View that you can use when on-line and that apparently integrates with Microsoft Word on both Macintosh and Windows machines. UM has an institutional license to these programs, I believe.
You can find more information on the library web site (www.library.miami.edu). Go to:
- Databases & Indexes
-- R
--- Refworks
---- Refworks
They have pretty good training materials.
The main thing that confuses users is whether you need to buy it or have a special code to use it. You don't. If you access it on the UM campus you can just create an account and get started. If you access it from off campus, but are going through the library links, you will just have to identify yourself by entering your name and C number, as usual with library resources.
I was sadly shocked that none of you were aware of this. It is our fault for not promoting it more widely. I am not an expert with the program, but it looks like something that would be useful to almost every student at UM. If you try this out, let me know what you think. If you need help I can try to provide assistance, but the library reference desk is probably the first line of support.
