RefWorks and RefShare
Funded by an Excellence in Undergraduate Education grant, SIUE's Lovejoy Library and Writing Center are now providing campuswide access to RefWorks and RefShare, the world's leading web-based bibliographic management tool. This tool can be used to find help with citing sources, using citation styles and learning about academic integrity.
RefWorks allows you to:
- Create a personal database online
- Import references automatically from mulitple databases
- Organize and manage references
- Share references
- Format bibliographies and manuscripts in seconds
RefShare allows you to:
- Post class reading lists on a central web page
- Provide easy access to information for disparate researchers collaborating on a project
- Create and share databases of frequently-requested reference queries by topic
- Provide a linkable database of research done by specific faculty members
- Publish an internal database of references for easy sharing within your community
