Reference / citation / bibliographic management software

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/Compari
son_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.

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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/Compari
son_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.pobermanhattan.edu   Thanks!]
>
>--
>Stacy Pober
>Information Alchemist
>Manhattan College
>O'Malley Library
>Riverdale, NY 10471
>stacy.pobermanhattan.edu
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Northwestern University Library
(847) 467-1437
claire-stewartnorthwestern.edu
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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/Compari
son_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.pobermanhattan.edu   Thanks!]
>
>--
>Stacy Pober
>Information Alchemist
>Manhattan College
>O'Malley Library
>Riverdale, NY 10471
>stacy.pobermanhattan.edu
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>
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____________________________________________________
M. Claire Stewart
Head, Digital Collections
Northwestern University Library
(847) 467-1437
claire-stewartnorthwestern.edu
http://hdl.handle.n
et/2166/claire
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