RefWorks is a bibliographic management service that permits users to create a database of references from search results in online research databases.

Wittenberg's subscription to RefWorks ended June 30th, 2009. Personal RefWorks subscriptions cost $100 annually. Please consider EndNote Web (a subscription resource provided by the library) or Zotero (freely available) for your bibliographic management service needs.

Getting your references out of RefWorks

• If you will be moving to EndNote Web, you should export your RefWorks database in "RefWorks Tagged Format".
  • EndNote Web - detailed instructions
• If you will be moving to Zotero, choose "Bibliographic Software (EndNote, Reference Manager, ProCite)".
  • Zotero - detailed instructions
• If you want to save your RefWorks database in spreadsheet or database management software like Microsoft Excel or Access, choose "Tab Delimited" format.
  • Tab delimited - detailed instruction

Which one should you choose?

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