York University Libraries made RefShare available to all RefWorks users last fall. RefShare provides an easy way to share the content in one of your RefWorks folders or your entire RefWorks account with anyone you choose. The content in your account remains completely secure but you can allow individuals with whom you’ve chosen to share to view citations stored in your account or output those citations as bibliographies. The ‘Find It @York’ feature also allows users to access available fulltext easily. More information about using RefShare is available here: http://refworks.scholarsportal.info/Refworks/help/RefShare.htm.
Write-N-Cite for Windows (version 2.0)
A new version of Write-N-Cite allows users to easily edit in-text citations or footnotes. For example, adding page numbers, suppressing the author(s), or adding preceding or following text to a citation can now be down by selecting Edit Citation from within the Write-N-Cite window. For users with earlier versions of Write-N-Cite, simply download the new version from the Tools menu in your RefWorks account and follow the installation instructions.
RSS Feeds in RefWorks
For those not familiar with RSS (Really Simple Syndication), it is a way of having news and other content that interests you delivered to your desktop. RefWorks can now import records from web sites with RSS feeds. For example, The Globe and Mail has RSS feeds for many of its news sections, and citation data for the content from these sections can be directly imported into RefWorks. To set up RSS feeds in RefWorks, see RSS Feed on the Search menu in your RefWorks account. More information is available here: http://refworks.scholarsportal.info/Refworks/help/RSS_Feeds.htm.
Electronic and Print Designations
In addition to identifying the format type for a citation (whole book, journal, dissertation/thesis, etc.), users can now identify the source type as being print or electronic. This new designation allows the Bibliography function in RefWorks and Write-N-Cite to better format bibliographies. For example, most citation styles for print journal articles do not require the database provider to appear in the bibliography. For electronic journal articles, this information is often desirable. This new source type designation will address the different needs of citations for electronic and print resources.
