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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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Tutorials:

• How Connotea works: www.connotea.org/how
• Getting Started: www.connotea.org/guide
• Video Introduction: www.connotea.org/A_Quick_Tour.html

 

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