[Eril-l] Citation Managers - RefWorks

[Melissa Belvadi]

We subscribe to RefWorks, have for many years, and have mostly finished the
transition to "new" RefWorks.  We just decided to renew for the upcoming
year. We are also in agreement here that if we decided to not renew, that
would be a multi-year decision because of what businesspeople call the
"installed base" problem - there are so many graduate students and faculty
who are using it for multi-year projects, and we'd ideally want to give
them time to finish those projects or provide a LOT of help converting
their existing projects to a new platform. And of course we'd need to
create a whole new instruction suite for training on the new system. Since
we're chronically understaffed and no one has time for all that, it's
easier to just stay where we are.
Someday we'll probably consider it seriously, but right now the soft costs
of such a conversion would overwhelm us.

For what it's worth, it has gotten a LOT better since the ExLibris people
took over support for it.

Melissa Belvadi
Collections Librarian
University of Prince Edward Island
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On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 10:33 AM Wardzala, Susan <Swardza at luc.edu> wrote:

> Good Morning ERIL-L,
>
>
>
> We currently have a subscription to RefWorks and are looking at whether to
> continue it.  With all the free citation mangers out there, we think our
> researchers are using a wide variety of them.  Has anyone else subscribed
> to RefWorks and either decided to continue their subscriptions or canceled
> it?  Would you be willing to talk about your experience?
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>
>
> If you do not have RefWorks, do you supply a citation manager for your
> researchers?  Which one?  Do you supply support for any other citation
> managers?
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> Thanks –
>
> Susan
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>
>
> Susan Wardzala
>
> Assistant Head, Lewis Library
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> Subject Specialist and Liaison for Social Work, Criminal Justice and
> Library Science
>
> Loyola University, Chicago
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> 25 E Pearson #616
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> Chicago, IL
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> 60611
>
> swardza at luc.edu
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> 312-915-6635
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