There were warning signs with RefMe, as it was owned by a venture capital group and was therefore likely to be sold on and not remain as a free product.
At University of Birmingham we subscribe to RefWorks and advocate this for undergraduates and taught postgrads. Whilst there have been some teething troubles with New RefWorks, the general functions are effective and clear, allowing for in-text citations and bibliography creation in a range of styles, as well as direct export of results from key databases into RefWorks and uploading of PDFs and bookmarking of web pages. It can be used with Google docs as well and a Word version of the doc. then downloaded (it works, I've tried it). Legacy RefWorks is still offered in parallel, not least for existing users.
For researchers, Endnote is recommended, and the Online version (either through a personal copy of Endnote Desktop or by using the Web of Science avenue) has been used by some students on its own or to link with the Desktop version. It allows for sharing and synching of libraries too of course.
More details on our pages at http://intranet.birmingham.ac.uk/as/libraryservices/library/referencing/icite/software/index.aspx .
We also subscribe to citethemrightonline as well as offering extensive examples on http://intranet.birmingham.ac.uk/as/libraryservices/library/referencing/icite/index.aspx .
Jon Andrews,
Subject Advisor for Medicine,
Library Services, University of Birmingham.
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