A Delicious for scholarly articles

Posted by Steve Hull on Monday 06 September 2010 at 8:49am
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It's somewhat reminiscent of Delicious in that you can build up a list of links to papers which you identify by tagging and then share your links with others. However, CiteULike also compiles and stores all of the information needed for citations in scholarly journals. What's more, it has the Genius-like capability to make suggestions of other articles that you may find interesting or useful.

The advantages begin to spring to mind immediately. You can find and study your papers on any computer on the Internet. Citation details are automatically generated. You can easily collaborate on papers by sharing links with your co-researchers. You can find other researchers who are reading the same papers as you and look at what else they're reading. If you're a student, you and your classmates can group together and build up a common library of links.

Perhaps best of all, you can organise and index the papers you read without knowing where your reading will take you. In fact, tagging can become a research tool in its own right, suggesting lines of enquiry that you may not think of otherwise.

A simple idea well executed -- the web at its best.

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