RESOURCES & SERVICES in Social Work Blog

What exactly is RefWorks?
and
How can RefWorks make my research and writing process easier?

RefWorks gathers, and stores citations from books, articles and websites organizing them into bibliographies using common styles like APA, MLA and many others.

A few specifics...
• Export records from databases to Refworks seamlessly—takes the tedium out of reference tracking
• Access your personal citation database from anywhere—on campus, at home, or abroad—via the Web
• Insert references directly into Word, using citation style of your choice, with Write N Cite feature
• NEW! All citations in RefWorks have a UIUC "Discover" link, allowing you quick access to the e-version
of journal articles, and more.

Learn more about RefWorks:
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/refworks/

The Library is offering a series of workshops on using RefWorks.
For information on workshop dates, times, and registration refer to the library's event calendar at: http://130.126.32.16/evanced/lib0/eventcalendar.asp

No time to attend a workshop?
There is also an excellent online tutorial for RefWorks:
http://www.refworks.com/tutor

Questions?
Please contact me...

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Allison M. Sutton, Assistant Professor
Psychology & Social Work Subject Specialist/Librarian
Education & Social Science Library
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1408 West Gregory Drive
Urbana, Illinois 61801
Email: asutton@uiuc.edu

Voice: 217-244-1866
Fax: 217-333-2214
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Self-Managed Current Awareness Defined:
The art of saving searches and setting up auto-alerts using databases and journals.

Need to be kept up to date on a particular topic or research area?
Learn how to use current awareness features in several popular social science databases.

What will current awareness features allow me to do?
*set up permanent searches.
*save a search you have created and run it manually whenever you wish.
*receive email updates (auto-alerts) when new research matching your search criteria is added to the database.
*set up table of contents (TOC) alerts.

Which databases allow me to use current awareness features?

The short answer is Several!! However, you are likely using many social science databases powered by either OVID or Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA).

The Ovid group of databases includes PsycINFO/PsycARTICLES, ERIC, Social Work Abstracts, ERIC, MedLine, Health and Psycho-Social Instruments, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, Current Contents and more.

The CSA databases include Social Services Abstracts, ERIC, Sociological Abstracts, Communication Abstracts and Worldwide Political Abstracts.

Instructions are available at the Education and Social Science Library’s
Self-Managed Current Awareness page.

Are Current Awareness and Auto-Alert features available for journals or other databases?

YES!
The Funk (ACES) Library has compiled an extensive list of instructions on
setting up Table of Contents (TOC) alerts in various databases. Of particular interest to Education and Social Science Library users may be the Web of Science TOC alert instructions

Ready to get started? Need to learn more?
See the Education and Social Science Library’s
Self-Managed Current Awareness page.
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Questions?
Please contact me...
Allison Sutton, Psychology & Social Work Subject Specialist
Email: asutton@uiuc.edu
Voice: 217-244-1866
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NEW Spring 2008

The University of Illinois Library and the Applied Technologies for Learning
in the Arts & Sciences (ATLAS) are now Data Service Partners!

DATA SERVICES Office Hours:
Wednesdays: 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Government Documents Library (2nd Floor Main Library)

Get help finding opinion polls, election studies, social surveys, census, education,
and health data; and preparing datasets for analysis in SPSS, SAS, STATA and ArcGIS.

No Appointment Necessary!

MORE INFORMATION: (217) 244-6445 or atlas-consult@uiuc.edu
Web site: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/learn/research/dataservices.html
Online Tutorials: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/learn/research/data_tutorials.html

Future Events: Data and Statistical Workshops (Date and Times TBA)

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Allison Sutton
Psychology & Social Work Subject Specialist
Education & Social Science Library
asutton@uiuc.edu
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