My Research is a workspace designed to help you manage the documents and other content items you find in ProQuest. You can use My Research as a temporary storage area during your current session, or you can create your own My Research account to save documents you find anytime you work in ProQuest—across all of your sessions.

My Research is powered by RefWorks, the premier online service for organizing citations and creating bibliographies. If you have a RefWorks account, you can seamlessly add citations to RefWorks and synchronize your RefWorks and My Research account folders. RefWorks makes it easy to instantly create a bibliography—in the style (MLA, APA, etc.) of your choice.

Synchronize your My Research and RefWorks accounts to get the most from both!

To synchronize your accounts means that both accounts provide views of the same documents and folders, so your research effort is simplified and efficient.

How to synchronize with RefWorks while creating your My Research account

If you don’t have a RefWorks account yet, but your institution offers RefWorks, you will see a notice in the Create a My Research account popup that tells you that you are eligible for a RefWorks account. Complete the form without selecting the Yes checkbox. When you finish creating your My Research account you will automatically also have a RefWorks account. You can log into your account at RefWorks using your new My Research username and password.

If you already have a RefWorks account, you can synchronize it when you create your My Research account. While completing the form to create your account select the Yes checkbox. Enter your RefWorks log in name, password, and group code. If you aren’t certain what your group code is, these instructions can be useful, especially if you use Athens or Shibboleth to sign in to ProQuest and RefWorks.

How to synchronize with RefWorks if you have already created a My Research account

If you already have a RefWorks account — you can synchronize it at any time with your existing My Research account.

1. Sign in to My Research.
2. Click the Account tab.
3. Click RefWorks settings in the sidebar at the right of the page. The RefWorks settings page displays.
4. A checkbox with this label displays at the top of the page:
   Yes, I have an existing RefWorks account that I wish to link with My Research.

   Select the checkbox and enter your RefWorks login details, then click Save settings.

   • Log-in name
   • Password
   • Group code — If you aren’t certain what your group code is, these instructions can be useful, especially if you use Athens or Shibboleth to sign into ProQuest and RefWorks.

   If you’d previously linked your accounts, deselect the checkbox to unlink them.

Export saved ProQuest documents before you synchronize accounts

If you’ve saved documents to My Research, but never synchronized your My Research account with your RefWorks account, you must export those documents to RefWorks before you synchronize the accounts. If you don’t first export them to RefWorks, you will lose them from My Research when you synchronize.

1. Sign in to My Research.
2. Select the checkbox corresponding to each document you want to export.
3. Move your mouse over, or click Export/Save.
4. Click RefWorks in the menu to open the Export popup.
5. Click Continue.
   The RefWorks log in page opens in a separate window.
6. Log in to your RefWorks account.
   Your exported ProQuest documents will now be in your RefWorks account.