Academic Social Bookmarkings

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I have no idea where to post this. Figure this place is as good as others.

I've been fooling around with two academic social bookmarkings site (so far free). One is CiteULike (http://www.citeulike.org) and the other is Connotea ( http://www.connotea.org).

These are good sites to put your reference papers and books. Sort of your personal referencce library. Also you can look at other people's reference (this is where the "social" part comes in) library. For example, if I tag an article as "nursing", I can click on "nursing" and see all other people who has tag their articles or books as "nursing". That way I see what other people have and may find some referecne I don't know about.

With these sites, you just click a button when you see a paper you like (say in pubmed) and all the information is automatically store for you (title, author, ... etc). With CiteULike, you can even go to Amazon and click on the books and all the info will be pulled in automatically to your personal reference database.

So far, I like CiteULike better and as a result, I cited whole bunch of stuff using this site. I also start to cite a few nursing humor books I like (I tagged it under nursing-humor)I am still keeping Connotea just to keep an eye on it (it does seem to have a better interface, but I am having some technical problems with it).

-Dan

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Oh... the reason I was fooling around with them was because I was fooling around with social bookmarking. Interesting concepts. The two sites I was fooling with are http://del.icio.us (this site started the whole social bookmarking thing) and http://www.spurl.net/ (better interface)

-Dan

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Specializes in Neuro, Critical Care.
Oh... the reason I was fooling around with them was because I was fooling around with social bookmarking. Interesting concepts. The two sites I was fooling with are http://del.icio.us (this site started the whole social bookmarking thing) and http://www.spurl.net/ (better interface)

-Dan

are any of these free, the one i clicked on i think you had to pay? thanks:) i have a million papers to write so im always looking for a way to avoid the actual library..im all about doing everything i can over the web!:):)

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are any of these free, the one i clicked on i think you had to pay? thanks:) i have a million papers to write so im always looking for a way to avoid the actual library..im all about doing everything i can over the web!:):)

All of them are free.

If you want a real good personal reference library and is willing to pay, try Refworks. It is at http://www.refworks.com and cost $100/year. With the extra payment, this is good in terms of automatically formating your references to whatever format you want on your paper (APA, MLA, ... etc). However, you can't look at other people's bookmark (unless they also paid and is part of your group or something like that).

Both Connotea and CiteULike, you can just do a search on tags on their sites (you don't have to join) and you get to see what people have tagged.

The other two del.iciou.us and spurl are generic bookmark managers that uses tags instead of folders (spurl have both folders and tags).

-Dan

-Dan

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Hi Dan,

Even though these posts are not recent, I wanted to thank you for them. I am currently doing a project for my MSN degree on social bookmarking & I was looking to see what other nurses had to say about them when I came across your posts.

Does anyone else out there use social bookmarking? If so, what site do you use and can we view your bookmarks?

Thanks,

Terri

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Specializes in Emergency & Trauma/Adult ICU.

Twenne, I don't know if this counts for your research project ... but I do not use social or academic bookmarking.

For academic research I heavily utilize PubMed, the CDC website, and websites of various specialty journals and/or medical/nursing societies.

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Hello MLOS,

Thanks for your reply. Just wondering, have you purposely chosen NOT to use social bookmarking or is it something you just haven't explored & gotten into much?

I agree that the sites you mention are excelllent for research.

Twenne (Terri)

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Specializes in Nursing Professional Development.

I have a question. Do these sites just have copies of published journal articles? ... or are they primarily school papers that other students have written?

Exactly what type of content is found on these sites? How is that content different from the databases that I get for free through the school library? (The library is a good one with access to almost all the signifificant nursing journals.)

Could someone please enlighten me on what these sites offer that is NOT available through CINAHL ... PubMed ... EBSCO host ... etc.

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Hi Ilg,

Social Bookmarked sites are like the favorites you save on your home computer, but posted on the internet so they can be viewed anywhere and by anyone you allow access. The bookmarked websites can be anything from google.com to a copy of a published article, it depends on how valuable the website is.

I currently have two social bookmarking websites that I have made public.

http://del.icio.us/TerriRN

This one I started to be able to share nursing related websites with my students.

http://del.icio.us/twenne

This is my personal one that has everything from soup to nuts.

Neither site is fully developed, just works in progress.

Twenne

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