[Coil-l] Refworks

[T Thorisch]

Hello all,
there are also 'hidden' advantages to RefWorks.
You can customize it in many different ways and make your added categories searchable.
You can attach full text documents, images, sound waves and more to specific records to have immediate access to full text, etc.
 
Dona Davidson was able to attach a 'local' OSU Tulsa icon to RefWorks records that bring the student /faculty directly back to the full text availability of a citation within our resources  (using Serialssolution as an aggregator). That way it completes the loop from database searching, saving/emailing/ exporting citiations and getting back in touch with full text through the backdoor.
Tom Th.


--- On Thu, 7/7/11, Sarah Clark <sclark at rsu.edu> wrote:


From: Sarah Clark <sclark at rsu.edu>
Subject: Re: [Coil-l] Refworks
To: "Community of Oklahoma Instruction Librarians (OK-ACRL) " <coil-l at lists.onenet.net>
Date: Thursday, July 7, 2011, 10:11 AM






You might also want to talk to Tom Thorisch at OSU-Tulsa if he doesn’t reply to you here—he’s the local Refworks “guru”.
 

Sarah Clark
Access Services & Distance Learning Librarian
Rogers State University
Claremore, OK
(918)343-7719
sclark at rsu.edu
 


From: coil-l-bounces at lists.onenet.net [mailto:coil-l-bounces at lists.onenet.net] On Behalf Of Sarah Clark
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 10:01 AM
To: Community of Oklahoma Instruction Librarians (OK-ACRL) 
Subject: Re: [Coil-l] Refworks
 
We use it, and we love it. We start promoting it from freshman orientation on up, but with a couple of points.
 
1: we discuss it in the context of picking appropriate sources (i.e. you have found stuff via all these source evaluation methods, now here’s how you organize it)
2: we state up front they may not use it much until they get to their upper division work, but we want them to know it’s there and how to use it effectively.
3. we hammer home that refworks is not perfect, and they need to be able to proofread the cites provided, and that their professor won’t care whether the typo was their fault or refworks’.
 
Sarah
 
 

Sarah Clark
Access Services & Distance Learning Librarian
Rogers State University
Claremore, OK
(918)343-7719
sclark at rsu.edu
 


From: coil-l-bounces at lists.onenet.net [mailto:coil-l-bounces at lists.onenet.net] On Behalf Of Jones, Elizabeth
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 9:59 AM
To: Community of Oklahoma Instruction Librarians (OK-ACRL) 
Subject: [Coil-l] Refworks
 
Hi everyone,
 
We are trying to convince our director to purchase Refworks for the university, but there was a discussion on collibs that she saw and several people said that they do not recommend for 1st and 2nd year students.  Some of the reasoning was that they write shorter papers and the learning curve for Refworks is not worth it if you are only using 3-5 sources.  Also some people thought that in the beginning you should focus on teaching critical thinking and analysis vs. citation.  Another comment was concerning the fact that Refworks is not 100% reliable and if you teach students to rely on it too soon before you have taught them to create citations on their own then a) they tend to not check the citation and assume the software is correct and b) they don’t know what to do when the software malfunctions and the citations are not correct.
 
Long story short…Any of you out there have this software at your institutions?  Can you give me your thoughts and opinions?  Statistics on use would be much appreciated!
 
Elizabeth (Beth) Jones, MLIS
Serials/Gov Docs/Systems Librarian
Oklahoma City University
Dulaney-Browne Library
(405) 208-5846
ejones at okcu.edu
 
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