[Eril-l] Citation Managers - RefWorks

[Wardzala, Susan]

Thank you to all who have responded.  You are the best.  I will let you know if I have further questions and I will report back what we decide.  This has been very helpful!

Susan


Susan Wardzala
Assistant Head, Lewis Library
Subject Specialist and Liaison for Social Work, Criminal Justice and Library Science
Loyola University, Chicago
25 E Pearson #616
Chicago, IL
60611
swardza at luc.edu<mailto:swardza at luc.edu>
312-915-6635
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From: Melissa Belvadi <mbelvadi at upei.ca>
Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2019 12:13 PM
To: Wardzala, Susan <Swardza at luc.edu>
Cc: eril-l <eril-l at lists.eril-l.org>; Mc Guigan, Niamh <nmcguigan at luc.edu>; Currie, Jane <jcurrie at luc.edu>
Subject: Re: [Eril-l] Citation Managers - RefWorks

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.

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On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 10:33 AM Wardzala, Susan <Swardza at luc.edu<mailto: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?

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?

Thanks –
Susan

Susan Wardzala
Assistant Head, Lewis Library
Subject Specialist and Liaison for Social Work, Criminal Justice and Library Science
Loyola University, Chicago
25 E Pearson #616
Chicago, IL
60611
swardza at luc.edu<mailto:swardza at luc.edu>
312-915-6635
Promouns: She/Her/Hers


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