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Web site: www.connotea.org/
Date of first review/ name of reviewer: 5/14/08 [Abe Korah]
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Produced by: Nature Publishing Group
Cost: Free
Description: Connotea is an online social bookmarking tool that saves citations from databases, articles, and web pages.
Platform: Web-based
License: GNU General Public License
Maturity: v1.8
Features:
- Efficiently save and organize links to references from databases, PDF documents, and web pages
- Assign tags to materials
- References can be public, private or shared
- Import and export to desktop reference tools
- Search and find items in your library of references based on tags you have provided or bibliographic information
- Search other Connotea user libraries by tags or bibliographic information
- Create or join a group of colleagues, collaborators, or Connotea users to share and view bookmarks
- Create a personal profile page
Advantages:
- Supplants delicious for research use by automatically pulling bibliographic information such as author and title from journals and websites. Delicious would require seperate tags for author, title, etc.
- References can be accessed from any computer
- Export references to EndNote, RIS, BibTex and MODS.
Disadvantages:
- Primarily focused on serving scientists and clinicians, which may prove limiting in other areas if potential users feel it doesn't serve their needs
- Creating a profile page, while not complex, is more difficult then entering text in a Word document
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Comments (1)
Administrator said
at 5:46 am on Sep 22, 2009
Great review. Also testing PB Works for using for our own application similar to this.
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