Retain Access to Your Citations (RefWorks)

UW-Madison provides access to RefWorks for all campus users. If you are leaving this campus there are several ways you can retain access to your citations.

If you will continue to use RefWorks at another institution or through a personal subscription you should use the Backup/Restore feature of RefWorks.

First, backup your citations in your current RefWorks account.

Then, open your future RefWorks account, when available, and restore your backup citations.

Note: Your RefWorks account should be empty when using the Restore command. Restoring will overwrite all of the references in your database. When restoring, do so in an empty database or to an account that does not have any data you want to save.

If you will not continue to have access to RefWorks or will be switching to another citation manager such as EndNote, Reference Manager, or other, then you should use the Export feature of RefWorks.

Export your citations from your current RefWorks account.

Select Bibliographic Software (EndNote, Reference Manager, ProCite)

Citations will not be saved in folders but in one merged file unless you export each folder separately.

Follow your specific software directions to Import these citations.