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Leaving a trail
Mar. 25th, 2009 12:50 pmI'm playing around with different ways of managing references at the moment.
Today's experiment is CiteULike. I'm sure plenty of you have been using it for years, but I hadn't really looked into it before. It's a social bookmarking site, broadly similar to delicious.com but with an academic focus. The usual features (tagging articles, seeing who else is reading them, following up on what other people are reading) are all present.
It has a few nifty features. You can rate papers in order of reading priority (ranging from "Top Priority!" to "I've already read it!"), letting it function as a to-do list (sort by tag, and then by unread articles in order of importance). You can also store PDF copies of journal articles on the site, which helps if you're working from several computers like I am.
The Neighbours feature looks like it will be handy for tracking down other people with similar research interests...
It's currently being a bit buggy on this computer (profile and library haven't updated after I posted the first article, and I can't manage to stay logged out - any link to my profile automatically logs me back in to the old, cached page). I'll try it when I get home, to see whether I can find out what's causing the problems.
I'm working from RMIT today, borrowing someone else's password to log in to "my" computer. Still not enrolled, though letters of offer (for other students) have been sighted in the past week. If I'm still not in the system by next Tuesday, I'll have missed the census date to enrol in my coursework...
Today's experiment is CiteULike. I'm sure plenty of you have been using it for years, but I hadn't really looked into it before. It's a social bookmarking site, broadly similar to delicious.com but with an academic focus. The usual features (tagging articles, seeing who else is reading them, following up on what other people are reading) are all present.
It has a few nifty features. You can rate papers in order of reading priority (ranging from "Top Priority!" to "I've already read it!"), letting it function as a to-do list (sort by tag, and then by unread articles in order of importance). You can also store PDF copies of journal articles on the site, which helps if you're working from several computers like I am.
The Neighbours feature looks like it will be handy for tracking down other people with similar research interests...
It's currently being a bit buggy on this computer (profile and library haven't updated after I posted the first article, and I can't manage to stay logged out - any link to my profile automatically logs me back in to the old, cached page). I'll try it when I get home, to see whether I can find out what's causing the problems.
I'm working from RMIT today, borrowing someone else's password to log in to "my" computer. Still not enrolled, though letters of offer (for other students) have been sighted in the past week. If I'm still not in the system by next Tuesday, I'll have missed the census date to enrol in my coursework...
