ProQuest has launched its new RefWorks® reference management platform, simplifying and improving research and collaboration workflows. With full-text management and tools for collaboration, the new RefWorks platform addresses the needs of students, faculty and librarians with an innovative feature set. Libraries that offer this powerful service to their constituents have access to administrative controls that help their institutions respect intellectual property rights, professional support for themselves and their end-users, and analytics that provide a consistent source of information on patron and content usage.
A first release, which debuted to early adopters since January, integrated robust technologies familiar to current RefWorks subscribers with cutting-edge functionality including validation, correction and enhancement of citations by leveraging the proprietary 2.6 billion record; Summon®discovery service index; a modern, citation-style editor with a WYSIWYG interface to overcome the hurdles to implementing customized output styles; built-in PDF reader with full annotation and collaboration capabilities, enabling individuals and teams to work more effectively, within and beyond their institution; sharing controls which empower the library to determine how full-text is managed within the platform – ensuring respect for copyright obligations; and new add-ins for the Microsoft Store for Office 2016 and Google Docs, which overcome the traditional 'downloadbarrier' in many institutions and ensures students have flexibility in their writing environments.
The most recent iteration of the new platform, released in June 2016 includes a variety of collection management and usability improvements. The new RefWorks platform builds on the success of the original - a market leader for 15 years - with improvements guided by feedback from customer development partners. These newest features follow on the heels of a release in April 2016, which delivered single sign-on, custom fields label management and rich text support for metadata.
RefWorks is designed to help libraries help their users. It goes beyond other reference management systems to enable researchers to save time and realize superior results in the creation of research papers. As a pure cloud service, it requires no data synching and provides a uniform interface and feature set across all library platforms.
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