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CBE - Postgraduate and Research Support: Mendeley or Refworks...Your choice

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Reference management

When it comes to research time management, referencing, literature reviewing and data collections are some of the few aspects of research that will take time. However, when it comes to referencing UJ uses to of the best reference management tools REFWORKS and MENDELEY. There are scheduled trainings on these tools, just send you librarian a message to get update list of trainings in this regards

Mendeley

 

Mendeley is a reference manager, academic collaboration network and crowd sourced database with a unique layer of social information research.

Mendeley Desktop is available on Mac, Windows and Linux. Mendeley Web functions on all major browsers. Mobile versions of Mendeley are available for iPad, iPhone and Android devices.

Simple Mendeley Tut

Refworks v Mendeley v Zotero

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Refworks

       Welcome to the New RefWorks!

RefWorks is an online research tool to help you manage your references when writing and collaborating with fellow researchers. RefWorks organizes, stores, and shares all types of information, and can instantly create citations and bibliographies

 

RefWorks will help you to collect, manage and organize research papers and documents. You can read annotate, organize, and cite your research as well as collaborate with friends and colleagues by sharing collections.

RefWorks’ drag and drop capability along with our smart document recognition makes it easy and fast to upload documents and bibliographic metadata into your library and the Save to RefWorks feature allows you to capture research from websites with the click of a button.

From simple bibliographies to papers formatted with in-text citations or footnotes, RefWorks handles it all.

RefWorks ProQuest allows you to:

  • Easily organize your references/citations 
  • Find full-text for your references and automatically update records
  • Create bibliographies and formatted papers in Microsoft Word and Google Docs
  • Securely access your research library from any web-based computer

Collect and Import

  • Save an unlimited number of references, full-text, and other research materials
  • Import from online databases, catalogs, reference management tools, and your computer
  • Quickly save references and full-text from any web page.
  • Automatically complete citation data using comprehensive ProQuest databases.

Manage Your Research 

  • Organize your data with folders and tags
  • Quickly search and find your references and full-text document.
  • Read and annotate full-text documents with highlights and comments from anywhere

Share and Collaborate

  • ​Collaborate on projects with shared full access to resources
  • Allow collaborators granular levels of access.
  • Take advantage of institutional and public folders
  • Interactively read, comment, and annotate full-text with your collaborators
  • Make collaborative writing easier with RefWorks integrated into Google Docs

Write and Cite

  • Generate bibliographies and citations in a snap for any authoring tool
  • Use our integrations to insert citations in Word and Google Docs
  • Leverage thousands of pre-built citation styles and request new styles
  • Customize citation styles or create your own from scratch with the citation style editor.