RefWorks

New RefWorks tutorials

In addition to the RefWorks guru, I am the tutorial queen today. If you check out the "Watch Tutorials" section at the RefWorks Help Center, you'll see about 4 new tutorials--handily marked "New!"

If you have any tutorials you'd like to see, feel free to contact me (skearns @ k-state.edu).

RefWorks unavailable on January 2, 2010

Due to maintenance, RefWorks will be unavailable on January 2, 2010. They are updating their servers and getting a new IP address (that means something to somebody, I'm sure).

Right now, we're anticipating that this will go smoothly. 

However, if you'd rather be safe than sorry, you may wish to backup your RefWorks account. Here's a tutorial showing you how to do so.

RefWorks 2.0

RefWorks is getting a new interface!!! You can see a preview at the Refworks 2.0 sneak peek page.

So, on what day will you log in and find everything changed? Well, we know the rollout is happening sometime in early 2010, but I don't have a specific date. And for the first couple of months you will have the power to switch between classic RefWorks and RefWorks 2.0, so you can ease yourself into the new interface.

After a couple of months, I'll be contacting all users to let you know that we're switching to the new interface as a university. Trust me, since I have to update all of my handouts, web pages, tutorials, and instructions with the new interface, this will not happen overnight.

I haven't played with RefWorks 2.0, yet, so I'm not much help yet about how the new interface will change how you use RefWorks, but I plan to get up to speed pretty quickly after the rollout.