Dan,

My library--U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign--is using RefWorks and encouraging faculty and staff to use it. I am embarrassed to say that it is my first citation database (I am a true medievalist in many ways!) so I can't compare it to other programs. I can tell you about it, though.

Here are the advantages: 1. it's free (but only through my university) 2. it's online and thus I can access my citations from home or office. And If my computer crashes, I still have the database tucked away on a server. 3. it's flexible with regards to citation style (has hundreds, it seems) and a nice system for filing citations in folders 4. this is neat--you can search library catalogues around the world and import citations from them.

Here are the disavangates: 1. Some databases, such as Brepol's medieval bibliography, are not set up to export to RefWorks. Of course, perhaps I have just not figured out how to do it.

For more info, visit the help pages created by my Library through this link: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/announce/refworkspr.html

Good luck!

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Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:16:19 -0700 From: "Daniel O'Donnell" caedmon@uleth.ca Subject: [dm-l] Refworks To: Digital Community mailing list dm-l@uleth.ca

Hi all,

Does anybody have any experience with RefWorks (http://www.refworks.com/)? It looks like a pay-as-you-go

on-line

reference manager that has many of the features of

standalone products

like Procite and Endnote.

While I'd prefer an open-source replacement for Procite,

I've not been

able to find something suitable yet. This looks like it

might be a

decent stop-gap. Does anybody have any experience with it?

-dan

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