I am setting up EndNote libraries for a group of scientists who work on different (but sometimes overlapping) topics on the same species (usually, though sometimes on other marine mammals).
The collection of references on the species numbers almost 2,000. If I add all the “topics” references, the whole library could be 8,000 to 10,000, which seems unwieldy, even pulling out references into groups. Any single user would use the references for the species and his/her topic, but not the thousands of others related to other topics.
However, if I use separate libraries, there will always be overlap with references showing up in more than one library. Any action (like attaching a pdf) would have to be done to all the copies (which means you’d have to find them) and I expect that chaos would eventually reign.
I’d appreciate any suggestions from experienced users on which approach is more fraught with peril! Thanks!