[Web4lib] Reference / citation / bibliographic management software

[M. Claire Stewart]

This isn't exactly to your question, Stacy, but we're hosting an 
event we're calling "CiteFest" at Northwestern this Friday, and hope 
to come out of it with some kind of comparison of Endnote, Refworks, 
CiteULike, Connotea and Zotero. We'll post back here after; in the 
meantime, the challenges that have been contributed to our wiki 
<http://citefest.pbwiki.com> so far are kind of interesting. Several 
students emailed to say how much they like Papers and how frustrated 
they are by Endnote, but since that's the one we license here we're 
not too surprised.

For practicality's sake we've had to limit the # of tools we'll test, 
but a few from the Wikipedia list were proposed...maybe next time.

Claire

>We've had a trial of RefWorks, which has some nice features, but is 
>quite  pricey.  I've been looking for comparative reviews of of 
>Refworks and the other available solutions (both proprietary and 
>open source) but most of what I'm finding is pretty dated.
>
>I'm looking for input from librarians who have either gotten site or 
>network licences for some of the commercial products (RefWorks, 
>ProCite, etc) or have implemented other solutions, such as 
>installing an open source product or promoting the use of one of the 
>open source products via training sessions.
>
>I looked at the Wikipedia "Comparison of reference management software" page
><http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software>
>
>Some of the most promising free solutions have odd quirks.  For 
>example, according to the wikipedia chart, one of the most promising 
>open source products, Refbase, can be used on most major operating 
>systems and can import from file formats offered by almost every 
>vendor we use - but it doesn't offer the Chicago/Turabian citation 
>style which some of our professors require.
>
>So, if your library has been using one of the products, please tell 
>me how they're working for you.  For the open-source products, I'm 
>most interested in how challenging (or how easy) they were to 
>install and offer to the campus community. I would prefer a 
>web-based solution simply because it allows users to access their 
>citations no matter where they are working, as long as they have 
>network access.
>
>[If you reply to the list, please cc: stacy.pober at manhattan.edu   Thanks!]
>
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>Stacy Pober
>Information Alchemist
>Manhattan College
>O'Malley Library
>Riverdale, NY 10471
>stacy.pober at manhattan.edu
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