IRIS http://www.iris.rutgers.edu/, the Integrated Rutgers Information System, is the online public access catalog for all of the Rutgers University

Rutgers University

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey , is the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey, United States. It was originally chartered as Queen's College in 1766. It is the eighth-oldest college in the United States and one of the nine Colonial colleges founded before the American...

 libraries except for the Camden Law Library, the Rutgers Law Library - Newark, the Gottfredson Library of Criminal Justice, and the Schimmel Rare Book Library.
It contains records for books, periodicals, videos, manuscripts, printed music, CDs, DVDs, and other materials held by the Rutgers University Libraries, including those held on reserve for specific courses, and circulation records for all borrowers. For some libraries, items acquired prior to 1972 were not automatically included in IRIS, but are being progressively added to the database. IRIS indicates which libraries own each title as well as the availability of each copy of every title.

IRIS has been configured to support direct export to the RefWorks

RefWorks

RefWorks is a web-based commercial citation manager — an application for managing references, retrieving bibliographic information, and designing texts in terms of their literature references...

 bibliographic management system. IRIS records can be marked and then saved directly into a RefWorks account.

IRIS records can also be exported to Zotero

Zotero

Zotero is free, open source reference management software to manage bibliographic data and related research materials . Notable features include web browser integration, online syncing, generation of in-text citations, footnotes and bibliographies, as well as integration with the word processors...

, an open source extension for the Firefox web browser

Web browser

A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content...

 that will allow you to collect, manage, and cite books and other materials.

IRIS is Z39.50

Z39.50

Z39.50 is a client–server protocol for searching and retrieving information from remote computer databases. It is covered by ANSI/NISO standard Z39.50, and ISO standard 23950. The standard's maintenance agency is the Library of Congress....

 compliant, so bibliographic management software like EndNote

EndNote

EndNote is a commercial reference management software package, used to manage bibliographies and references when writing essays and articles. It is produced by Thomson Reuters.- Features :...

, ProCite

ProCite

- External links :*...

, and Reference Manager

Reference Manager

Reference Manager is a commercial reference management software package sold by Thomson Reuters. It was the first commercial software of its kind, originally developed by Ernest Beutler and his son, Earl Beutler, in 1982 through their company Research Information Systems...

can be used to connect to IRIS and search and retrieve bibliographic citations.