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Social bookmarking in plain english

A wide range of social bookmarking tools is available. Based on extensive discussions about the merits of various tools on Science of the Invisible, to avoid overloading students with unfamiliar technologies, we will advocate use of del.icio.us as a bookmarking and resource discovery tool rather than any of the more complex alternatives such as:

  • CiteULike - Easy interface, manually post or just stick in the URL of a paper. Easy import of existing citation manager data using RIS format from Refworks (useful in UoL context but probably not important to first year students - useful for postgrads?). Post in the URL of a paper and it will pick up the citation correctly - great when I seem to spend ages searching for the 'download citation' option on a myriad of different bibliographic databases. Bookmarklet tool (offered in all the formats you would want, plus a version that doesn't create a pop up window) seems reliable. The 'post URL' page (to add a reference) also has a a host of links to take you direct to bibliographic databases. Option to add PDF with each citation. Browse journals direct within CiteUlike. Social aspect is a bit lacking, they have started a what's hot (CiteGeist)- but so far, their top hit may be that one paper has been tagged and saved by 10 people. The topics on this list are quite interesting - pretty much molecular biology/ genetics/bioinformatics plus a smattering of articles about social tagging! Looks as though there are quite a few HE classes on there, sharing work. Searching other people's tags didn't find me much that I would not have already, but that is probably because the social aspect needs expanding with more bodies. I could see it working well for group work/ in a lab to share links. Would handle the citation aspect better than delicious if you wanted to then use the collected links for a biblography. Saves re-entering it all into endnote or refworks (can export the whole thing in RIS or BibTex).
  • refbase
  • Google Scholar
  • The Google Bookmarks tool is simply no good compared to these top 5 tools. The design is uncluttered and the service looks deceptively easy to use, but you need to spend a lot of time figuring out how things work. There is no Help link in sight and the help I found searching Google’s help base wasn’t always useful. Google should either start spending some serious money developing this tool or go out and buy one.




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