A Case Study Using ProQuest RefWorks: An entry point for addressing information literacy.

• Main Authors: Katrina Roseler, Elizabeth Park, Valerie Coleman, Brooke Carlson, Claire E. Kendal-Wright
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Indiana University Office of Scholarly Publishing 2019-06-01
• Series: Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
• Subjects: Information Literacy (IL); Citation Management Software (CMS); ProQuest RefWorks; Institutes of Higher Education (IHE)
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/josotl/article/view/23975

An interdisciplinary team of university faculty members collaborated to develop an intervention to address a deficiency in student information literacy skills. The team developed video modules that instruct users how to create, use and maintain a ProQuest RefWorks account; a citation management software (CMS) tool that is compatible with Google Docs word processing. The research team collected YouTube and ProQuest RefWorks analytics as well as pre/post survey data from university students who participated in a pilot using the video modules. Results indicate that the modules impacted student information literacy skills; specifically, in-text citation and referencing. Based on the results, we also describe next steps for this research.