RefWorks (Open Learning)

RefWorks is a web-based tool that allows you to create and manage your own personal database of useful references. You can then use these to quickly compile a reference list for your reports and papers.

It also allows you to collaborate and share your research with colleagues.
 

What does it do?

• You can import references directly from a search from online databases.
• It allows you to organise, store and manage your references.
• It allows you to quickly compile a bibliography that you can use as the reference list for your assignments. You can select from a vast range of styles, including the version of Harvard which is used at Teesside University.
• It allows you to share your references with colleagues.

​​​​​​​You can think of RefWorks as having four parts:

1.  Building up and collecting together your references into your account to create your own personal databases of useful references.
    
2. Managing and organising these references.
    
3. Creating a reference list or bibliography.
    
4. Sharing and collaboration.

This tutorial will cover the essentials of setting up an account, exporting references from Discovery and creating a simple reference list.

Further tutorials (in development) will show you more about building up your database with references, managing and organising them, creating a bibliography and sharing and collaboration.