RefShare provides subscribing institutions and universities the ability to allow users to share their RefWorks database or just specific folders or subfolders from their RefWorks database with other users in their organization and in some cases even publicly. Certain users may also have permission to post their folders or database on a shared page viewable by all RefWorks Users within their organization. Users may also be able to post their folders or database to social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
RefShare users have the ability to allow exporting, printing, generating a list of references and even using custom output styles at the folder or database level.
Existing RefWorks users can export from a RefShared database or folder directly into their own RefWorks database.
There are three types of RefShare Users:
a RefShare User who initiates the sharing of their references
a RefShare Recipient who can access the shared folders or databases
a User who can access the Shared Area Page created by the organization.
How will I know if I Can Share My Folders or Database with RefShare?
From the main viewing window in RefWorks you will see a Share tab. If you see these, that means your local RefWorks Administrator has given you permission to share your folders or databases.
Note: You can still share your database with colleagues by creating a read-only password, should you not have access to RefShare.