I work at a company with 60+ persons, and we have just bought Endnote to have common reference platform. I knew that there were some problems with the single-user editable library and the read-only library before we bought it, but when I now write the user instructions, I really don’t know how to structure read/write in a good way. So my question is how have you done at your company/institute? Do you keep local versions that are automatically copied to a master library or? The solution suggested by Thomson to leave it to a secretary who should add it does not work.
our group (5 persons) has a shared network drive on a unix server, all users have read/write access.
I have copied my EndNote library to this shared drive. When I have opened this shared EndNote library and my colleague wants to open it simultaneosly she gets the EndNote message “File is already open for writing and cannot be opened again.”
I’ve found this thread useful as a starting point but I still have some questions about how best to update a shared master library. I work in an office with 5 EndNote users, so there are often occasions when several of us want to use the shared library at the same time. When we do use the library, we all need to add records and correct typos/duplicates in existing records, so setting one library as Read Only would probably not be effective.
Is my best option here to set up EndNote Web? And are there some simple resources that explain how to set it up and why it would be advantageous to use it instead of regular EndNote? I don’t care about attached PDFs, I just want our users to have access to the same library for CWYW and to be able to add to that library or fix its records.