Week 4 - Assignment: Develop an Annotated Bibliography

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RefWorks NCU Library's preferred research management tool.

Welcome to RefWorks!

Introduction to RefWorks & Account Creation

RefWorks Platform Overview & Features

RefWorks Writing Tools & Plugins

Organizing Information in RefWorks

Getting Information into RefWorks

Setting your Citation Style to APA 7th

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Creating Bibliographies and Writing your Paper

Finding the Right Writing Tool Plug-In

RefWorks Citation Manager (RCM) for Microsoft Word

Using Write- N-Cite Instructions

RefWorks Add-On for Google Docs

Reading and Annotating Documents

Sharing and Collaborating

RefWorks Help & Training

RefWorks for NCU Alumni

Organizing Research &

Reading Documents in RefWorks

RefWorks has a built-in reader – no need for a .pdf reader or special

app to read your documents. You can read and access supported

documents anywhere, with just a web browser.

Simply select the reference with the document and click the "Read"

button in the viewing pane. The full document or article will open for

you to read and annotate. If the item does not contain a document, the

reference metadata will display.

You have several options, all of which can be found on the tool bar on

the top of the page:

Return to your collection

Zoom in or zoom out on the document for enhanced viewing

Print a copy of the document

Download a PDF version of the document to your computer

Highlight certain portions of the text

Comment on the selected text

Add notes to the document that you are viewing

Edit the document reference data

Annotating Documents in RefWorks

You can annotate any of your own documents saved in RefWorks. You

may be able to annotate documents shared with you if you have been

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Citations  given permission to annotate and/or modify the document.

To annotate a document, select the reference with the document and

click the "Read" button in the viewing pane. The document will display

in the reader. Click the Document Notes icon from the reader

menu and enter your notes.

If you wish to make highlight areas of text, select the text area you

wish to make a note for using the Highlight Selected Text icon and

select words of text by clicking and dragging through the lines of text.

To remove highlighting, click the highlighted area until the delete option

displays. Click "Delete Conversation".

You may also click and drag using the Comment icon to highlight

the text and associate a comment with it.

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You can change the color of your note and the associated highlighted

text, edit your note or you can delete your note completely by clicking

on the three dots at the far right in the note.

A note indicator will also appear to the far right of the selected area

and you may access the note in the manner as well.

Once you type a note, it is automatically saved.

Accessing your Documents Offline

RefWorks allows you to view and read your documents without being

connected to the internet using a service called Dropbox. You’ll need to download the Dropbox installer and create a Dropbox account which you will link to your RefWorks account.

To link RefWorks to Dropbox:

1. Log into RefWorks.

2. Click your name, then select “Settings”

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3. In the "General" area, scroll down the page until you see a

section of the page called “Dropbox”. Click the “Connect” button.

4. If you have a Dropbox account, enter your login credentials and

click “Sign in”. If you are new to Dropbox, click the “create an account”

link on the Dropbox site and download and install Dropbox on your

computer.

5 You’ll be asked to give RefWorks permission to create a folder in

your Dropbox called “ProQuest RefWorks” in your Apps folder. This is

where RefWorks will place a copy of your articles.

You can only store your own articles in Dropbox – articles in shared

collections are not included. All of your articles (regardless of what

Collection they are filed in) are saved to your ProQuest RefWorks

folder in your Apps folder.

After you first set up your connection from RefWorks to Dropbox, newly

uploaded documents you save to RefWorks are automatically saved

in Dropbox as well as. When you remove a document from your

RefWorks library, we’ll also remove it from Dropbox as well.

To disconnect your RefWorks account from Dropbox:

1. Log in to RefWorks.

2. Click your name, then select “Tools”

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3. In the "General" area, scroll down and click the “Unlink” button in

the Dropbox area of the page.

RefWorks will no longer sync your files with Dropbox. Articles currently

in your ProQuest RefWorks folder in Dropbox will remain.

If you need to change your Dropbox account associated with

RefWorks, see these directions on how to do so.

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