CiteULike
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CiteULike is a social bookmarking service for academics. Instead of letting users catalog web pages (like Del.icio.us) or photographs (like Flickr) it specialises in academic articles, and provides specific tools for that purpose.
Specifically, users can post academic articles using a bookmarklet and the system will attempt to determine the article metadata (title, authors, journal name, etc) automatically. Users can organize their libraries with freely chosen keywords which has the side-effect of producing a folksonomy of academic interests.
According to www.citeulike.org/about:
"CiteULike is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. CiteULike automatically extracts the citation details, so there's no need to type them in yourself. It all works from within your web browser. There's no need to install any special software.
"Because your library is stored on the server, you can access it from any computer. You can share you library with others, and find out who is reading the same papers as you. In turn, this can help you discover literature which is relevant to your field but you may not have known about."
The service is free and the author has promised that will not change. The software behind the service is closed source, but the dataset collected by the users is in the public domain. It is run independently of any particular publisher and has an explicity liberal privacy policy (http://www.citeulike.org/faq/all.adp#privacy).
External links
- CiteULike (http://www.citeulike.org/)
