Knovel provides electronic access to leading engineering reference handbooks, databases, and conference proceedings.
To access knovel from the Library’s web site, go to Electronic Databases and then click on Knovel:Engineering & Scientific Online Reference.
In order to download a citation into either Refworks or ENDNOTE, first click on the citation from the list of items you found after a search. Click on ‘Citation’. Click on ‘Export’. Select either ‘ENDNOTE’ or “Refworks’ for downloading your citation.
With this new feature in Knovel, you will now be able include citation(s) of any electronic book from Knovel in your bibliography. In engineering design projects, you often need to use electronic handbooks in order to develop background necessary in a particular subject area for your project. This new feature will allow you to download references from Knovel automatically so that your bibliography can now include electronic books as references in addition to your scholarly journal articles you may have found using engineering databases such as Engineering Village, Earthquake Engineering Abstracts, Environmental Engineering Abstracts and IEEE Xplore.
RefWorks is a web-based software application that helps you manage citations. It helps you keep track of the sources you are using for your research and your own notes about the sources. It is web-based (no special software installation, downloads, or plug-ins required). It will also create bibliographies for you in the format you specify (APA, IEEE, etc.).
Follow the steps below to format your bibliography using ASME style:
- Click on ‘Bibliography‘ after accessing RefWorks
- Under Output Style, go to ‘Access Output Style Manager‘
- Select ‘ASME’ under ‘Choose Output Style’ and then click on ‘Add to Favorites’
- Then go to ‘Bibliography‘ and choose ‘ASME’ to format your bibliography using ASME style
Users can now further their research and collaboration efforts by learning more about authors through the new Author Linking feature. The feature links author names from the user’s RefWorks database to possible matching profiles within the COS Scholar Universe database. Scholar Universe is a multi-disciplinary database containing profiles of over 1.7 million authors, university faculty and other scholars. Organisations subscribing to the database will automatically have access the complete profiles; non-subscribing organisations are provided with a more concise complimentary version of the scholar profiles.
Source: RefWorks improves service with new features and enhancements in Knowledgespeak.
For more information. please refer to RefWorks August 2008 Release
What is RefWorks and why would I want to use it?
RefWorks is a web-based software application that helps you manage citations. It helps you keep track of the sources you are using for your research and your own notes about the sources. It is web-based (no special software installation, downloads, or plug-ins required). It will also create bibliographies for you in the format you specify (APA, IEEE, etc.).
See: Refworks Overview for more information
How do I set up RSS feeds in Refworks?
After you logon to your Refworks account, click on RSS Feed under ‘Search’ Tab. Enter the ‘RSS Feed URL’ in the search box and click on ‘Add RSS Feed’ button.
More tips: In your Refworks account, bring your cursor to ‘Help’ tab. Select ‘Tutorials’ and then click on ‘Refworks Advanced’. Go to ‘Importing from RSS feeds’ section of this virtual tutorial.
See: Using RSS to increase user awareness of e-resources in academic libraries for more information on RSS feeds and how you can keep up-to-date with new research articles from electronic databases such as Ei compendex and INSPEC.
