Best way to share libraries with coworkers (that's NOT EndNote Online)

Dear Leanne,

at first i would like to thank you for your helpfull information.

Maybe i misunderstood something, but do i go right to the adoption, that with your solution,

it is not possible to work at the RW-file with several persons at the same time?

Yours sincerely,

David

@leanne wrote:

We have a local library on our network drive in two folders.  One is read write (RW) and one is read only (RO).  When someone wants to update or add to a library they have to (and can only be the only one) open the read write library for editing.  Anyone and multiple people can open the library in the read only folder at the same time.  Everynight, our IT run a script to copy everything from the RW folder to the RO folder so it is updated.  This works well for our lab.  They just set endnote to open the RO version as the default (in preferences) and only open the RW version when needed.  – We all work in pretty close proximity though, but one could have a chat or email connection to other users so if it is locked when you go to open it, you can communicate and ask the other user to close it.  (but the error message saying it is locked, doesn’t tell you by whom).