So far I think I've found my favourite social bookmarking site. Cite u Like is similar to delicious in that you can use it on any computer as long as you have internet explorer, firefox or safari and its free. It allows you to search through online databases for academic articles and post articles you've found on the web. While searching through their journals I found several regarding libraries including library career development and library hi tech (one which I've already found helpful for other assignments.)
You can also find the more popular articles by seeing how many times they've been tagged. I'm just extremely annoyed I didn't know about this when I was studying pyschology in my undergraduate degree, it is so easy to find irrelevant information on the web but social bookmarking sites really help you find the useful articles. It also helps you find users who have the same interests as you and allows you to share information with them.
I was also very impressed by how easy it was to export reference information to endnote. Just one click and it automatically takes me to my endnote library. It also allows me to pick which style of referencing I want.
However I feel I've only just scratched the surface, once I get into the habbit of using them I'm sure I'll discover many more advantages. As someone hoping to be a librarian I'm ashamed to say that so far Im not finding the need to visit the university library because I keep finding so many great articles and sources online through the use of these sites.
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I'm also a new fan of CiteUlike. It's fantastic! I also wish I knew about this earlier. I think it's great that it is so easy to export our library in our chosen format. Again, because it's centralised on the web, we won't have any heart attacks if our computer explodes with all our references on it. Perhaps someone should develop a site where we can store our essays...
ReplyDeleteVery impressed with CiteUlike and it can only get better.
Store our essays? Thats not a bad idea, I'm always worried about losing them or rocking up to uni to hand it in and realising that its on my home computer not my usb stick.
ReplyDeleteBoth good points, reduction of worry very important. However, I have not been able to export in an EndNote-readable format. CiteULike claims I can, but I cannot. If one can export into EndNote the power of CiteULike is extroadinary.
ReplyDeleteAs it is, I find it wonderful.