2013 Connected Researcher 4 Collect and Review

Collect and Review: Social Bookmarking and Social Citation

Social BookmarkingCollect, organise, tag, share and search

for useful bookmarksAccess bookmarks from any computerUse tags to browse other researchers

librariesSee who is reading the same as youAnnotate and comment upon webpagesMany journal providers and websites

connect with social bookmarking tools

Why use Social bookmarking?

Social Bookmarking Benefits See what colleagues and researchers with

similar interests are reading Share links and copy others’ links “if you make discovering an article and

bookmarking it routine… harvesting that information for future retrieval can become a simple, efficient part of your everyday reading” (Citrome et al, 2009) 1

1 Citrome, L. et al. 2009. How to search and harvest the medical literature: let the citations come

to you, and how to proceed when they do. International Journal of Clinical Practice 63(11), pp. 1565-1570.

Social Bookmarking Sites

Browser Diigo toolbar or ‘diigolet’ available to automate bookmarking

Freely available collections of links Groups and lists features – public or private – make

collaboration and sharing easy Privacy control: bookmarks are private, public or

shared with a group Add people to your network to keep track of their

bookmarks Annotation and highlighting feature – track, record

and review websites and articles

Social Citation Tools

Sophisticated tools similar to/compatible with EndNote and other reference software

Combine networking and reference management

Specialised functionality for bibliographic references – integrate with journal providers and databases

Certain tools e.g. Zotero connect with word and allow you to store documents

Social Citation Tools

Provide add-ins for browsersCan be used collaboratively Allow you to share citations and access

those of other peopleCan comment and review on articles

Social Citation Tools

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Exports and imports to EndNote and other reference software

Discuss topics through group forums and blogs Easy to search for and copy references from

other people’s libraries Automated recommendations for articles Export references in a variety of styles ‘Watch’ what other people are adding to their

library e.g. http://www.citeulike.org/user/AJCann

Exports and imports to EndNote and other reference software

Firefox extension in browser syncs with online account Integrates with Word and open office – Cardiff Harvard

style available along with others Groups function allows you to collaborate and share File storage for all types of files and saves links to

webpages Collect references quickly and easily from websites

and databases Sources of help and guides available

Easily saves multiple references

How do you choose a tool?

“I’ve found that the most important thing is identifying where other people who share your research interests are located. If you can find the tool that other people you know are using then you should probably use that tool as the biggest benefits are in the social aspects of these tools”

Hooley, T. 2011. Citeulike and other social citation tools. Vitae. Available at : http://www.vitae.ac.uk/researchers/315451-332831/CiteULike-and-other-social-citation-tools.html

How to choose?

Which tools suit you or your subject best? Is there one which is used most by those in

your subject area? Are you interested in sharing references? Do you want it to manage documents, allow

you to output references etc?

Managing references

In pairs or threes discuss: How do you manage your references? What do you think of the idea of sharing

references?

Try it outHave a look at a tool of your choice – see

tools on Diigo listMay need to register for certain tools to

search references content• Diigo (www.diigo.com)• CiteUlike (www.citeulike.org)• Bibsonomy (http://www.bibsonomy.org/ )• Zotero (www.zotero.org)• Mendeley (www.mendeley.com)

Zotero: a free alternative to EndNote

Course on Graduate College Programme -available on Thursday 21st March 2 – 4 2013