Evernote is often associated with note taking. But is has many more functions that can be used by university staff for project and research. If you are concerned with sharing confidential research info on Evernote, then at the very least, you could still use it to clip blogs and articles that you can divide into folders and read at a later stage (Evernote actually does not just bookmark the URL, it also clips entire articles and stores them in your Evernote account)