Monday, February 28, 2005
CiteULike: A free online service to organize your academic papers
I quite like this. A shared web resource that grabs the bibliographic data off a site and allows you to store them on the web and share them with others - ideal for group working and collaboration. But whilst it produces Endnote and BiBTeX format output, it duplicates much of Endnote's functionality. And unless it will import my current Endnote reference library (1839 references and growing fast) it can't be my main repository. However, it will probably get used when I am trawling round adding new refs, as it makes it much easier than cutting and pasting the information in by hand.
It's different to Furl (which we wrote about a while ago) which archives sites in one place and allows you to browse them at your leisure. And whilst Furl sounds great, and I can think of examples when I could usefully use it (e.g. when looking up stuff on some weird topic that I won;t look up again for ages, if ever - which wireless router to buy, for example), I've not used it since I wrote about it. I have a folder marked 'Fragments' in my Favourites, and clear it out occasionally, which seems to do the trick.....
I quite like this. A shared web resource that grabs the bibliographic data off a site and allows you to store them on the web and share them with others - ideal for group working and collaboration. But whilst it produces Endnote and BiBTeX format output, it duplicates much of Endnote's functionality. And unless it will import my current Endnote reference library (1839 references and growing fast) it can't be my main repository. However, it will probably get used when I am trawling round adding new refs, as it makes it much easier than cutting and pasting the information in by hand.
It's different to Furl (which we wrote about a while ago) which archives sites in one place and allows you to browse them at your leisure. And whilst Furl sounds great, and I can think of examples when I could usefully use it (e.g. when looking up stuff on some weird topic that I won;t look up again for ages, if ever - which wireless router to buy, for example), I've not used it since I wrote about it. I have a folder marked 'Fragments' in my Favourites, and clear it out occasionally, which seems to do the trick.....
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