RefWorks has added the option to share accounts, via their RefShare app. There are many options for setting this up; including:
- only one person creates records but multiple people can see records in the database (and copy them to their own personal RefWorks accounts); or
- multiple people can create records, and all can modify records; or
- multiple people can post records but one person acts as a gatekeeper to 'approve' records for posting;
and variations in between. We will be setting up the last-mentioned version of this for one of our faculty who wants a structure for students to contribute to an annotated bibliography project.
Access is via a durable URL, and there's similar flexibility (you can have its URL reside behind a proxy authenticator, for example, or simply post a link to that URL).
If you would like to see what this looks like, I've put records for many of the readings used or under consideration for my information literacy course up in a RefShare database. (Most of these came from my personal RefWorks account, so I didn't need to enter much data directly.) The durable URL is a pain to type out, so I used TinyURL to get a manageable one - use http://tinyurl.com/refclass .
