No time to take one of our on-site RefWorks workshops? No worries–sit back and watch our Intro to RefWorks video!
Make RefWorks Your Friend
RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to compile, edit and format bibliographies by importing references directly from online databases or by entering them manually and inserting them into your finished paper in the citation style of your choice (eg. APA, MLA). We’re offering a series of hands-on workshops at the Killam this fall to introduce you to the basics of using RefWorks.
Location: Killam Library Room G70, Main floor
Thursday Sept. 15, noon – 1:30 p.m.
Monday Sept. 19, 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Saturday Sept. 24, 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Friday Sept. 30, 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Registration is required and limited to 12 participants. Please register indicating which session you wish to attend by emailing Carol.Richardson@dal.ca
If none of these times suit you, we may add more sessions if there is enough interest, so please send an email to Carol Richardson indicating your preferred date(s).
Oxford Bibliographies Online Trial
The Dal Libraries are running a 30-day free trial of Oxford Bibliographies Online (OBO). Trial ends July 27, 2011.
Oxford Bibliographies Online is a new research tool for the social sciences and humanities. A scholar-curated library of discipline-based subject modules, OBO is designed to help busy researchers find reliable sources of information quickly by directing you to exactly the right chapter, book, website, archive, or data set you need.
Each entry is a selective guided tour through the key literature on topics ranging from Atlantic History through Public Health to Victorian Literature. All citations are linked through to our collection via OpenURL, full-text via DOIs, or to the web via links to OCLC, WorldCat, and Google Books, allowing you to locate quickly full-text content directly from OBO.
Off campus access is available using the following:
Username: dal-trial
Password: dal-trial
Give Oxford Bibliographies Online a try, and let us know what you think!
Bibliography of Asian Studies Online
This online version of the Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) contains over 787,000 records on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.
BAS Online provides references to books, journal articles, individually authored monographs, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, Festschriften etc. It encompasses the full content of the annual printed volumes of the BAS from 1971 to 1991, the last volume available in print form. There are also many references to post-1991 publications, including citations to all articles from the 100 most-used journals in Asian studies (up to the present in many cases), and a substantial number of additional citations from earlier years in South Asian studies.
The Bibliography of Asian Studies Online is accessible both on and off campus. Explore it now!
RefWorks 2.0 is Coming!
In August 2011, RefWorks will move to an updated interface, RefWorks 2.0. You can preview the new interface within your current account by logging in and clicking on the “RefWorks 2.0” link at the top right (login to RefMobile). You may return to the original interface by clicking “RefWorks Classic” at the top right of the screen. Don’t worry, RefWorks will support both interfaces until December 2011.
For more information about using RefWorks, see the Libraries’ RefWorks webpage.
RefWorks Basics Tutorials
The Libraries are running a series of hands-on tutorials on the basics of using RefWorks–if you’re not already familiar with this amazing web-based citation manager, now’s your chance! Registration is required and limited to 12 participants.
All sessions take place in Room G70 of the Killam Library
Friday, January 21
11:30am-1:00pmWednesday, February 9
3:30pm-5:00pmTuesday, February 15
11:30am-1:00pm
**Please indicate which session you wish to attend by sending an email to Carol.Richardson@dal.ca.**
If these dates don’t work for you you, we may add more sessions if there is interest so please email Carol to suggest an alternate date.