Johns Hopkins has an institution-wide subscription to RefWorks, which means that everyone has an account to use if they wish. If you are new to RefWorks, you will need to activate your account. Activating your RefWorks account is simple and easy.
No additional login name nor password is needed. Once the account is active, you will see your name at the top, on the right.
See RefWorks LibGuide for technical questions and documentation.
From the PubMed results page, select "Send to" and choose the "Citation manager" option from the drop-down list.
Select the specific results that you want to import into RefWorks* and then click the "Create file" button to download a .nbib file that can be imported into RefWorks.
*Note: The default, "All results on this page," is selected in the following screenshot. The other options in the drop-down list are "All results" (i.e., the complete result set) and "Selection" (i.e., results that you have hand-selected by clicking in the boxes next to individual articles).
From a RefWorks project, select "Add" from the top menu bar and click on the "Import references" option.
On the next page, drop the PubMed results file or select it from your computer.
Select or verify the proper format for your PubMed results file. In this case the file was automatically detected by RefWorks as an "NLM PubMed" file.
On the next page, select to have the PubMed results import into a particular folder and select whether or not you want to import database tags.
Note: If no folder is created for the PubMed results, they will go into a "Last Imported" folder. Selecting to import tags from PubMed will enable you to more easily find references when searching your RefWorks project.
The results from your PubMed search are now in your RefWorks project, where they can be accessed, annotated, organized in folders, associated with full text, shared, etc.
Export.RIS format (Mendeley, EndNote) is selected.Download+ signImport references from the dropdown menuDrop file here box or click on the link within the box to select a file from your computerGo to the left side navigation panel of RefWorks and click on the down arrow next to "Duplicates." Then click on the "Find duplicates" link.
A pop-up box appears that prompts you to select criteria for selecting duplicates. Use the drop downs and check boxes to select how duplicates should be assigned and how exactly they should match.
Clicking on the "Find Duplicates" button will launch a search for duplicates within all of the documents in a particular project.
A pop-up box appears signalling that the deduplication process has a started.
When this process is finished, a green "Process completed" button will appear. Click on this button to see the results of the deduplication process.
The duplicate records report shows the number of duplicates found. These duplicates are automatically selected and highlighted in pink in the result list.
You should check this duplicate list carefully and deselect any references that are not duplicates. Once you have done this, you can click on the "Delete" icon in the menu to send the duplicate records to the trash.
To completely remove duplicate references from your project, go to the "Trash" folder by clicking on the link in the side navigation pane.
Select all references in this folder and then click on the "Delete" icon in the top menu bar.
Yes, alumni are able to have continued access to RefWorks after graduation.
Alumni should update their RefWorks account prior to graduation by selecting the Alumni option from the Profile / Role section of the Settings page. They should also update their alumni email address and then click SAVE.
If you need help using RefWorks,
Contact the Hopkins RefWorks Support Group:
You can also contact RefWorks Customer Support directly:
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Or you can access the RefWorks Help Guide, which covers all aspects of using RefWorks.