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Leveraging Social Bookmarking in Academic Research

Explore the benefits of using social bookmarking tools like Del.icio.us and CiteULike to organize and share online sources when conducting academic research. Learn how tagging and organizing bookmarks can enhance your research process.

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Leveraging Social Bookmarking in Academic Research

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  1. Using Social Bookmarking in Academic Research Adriana Reed J. Willard Marriott Library April 30, 2008

  2. Background • Using the Open Web for research is a major component of library instruction. • Courses I teach that allow (or require) students to use Open Web sources to develop research products: • Educational Psychology – individual/group research paper and group presentation • Engineering LEAP – group research paper and presentation • Writing – annotated bibliography, individual research paper

  3. Social Bookmarking • Store and share bookmarks toyour online sources online. • Web-based, NOT browser-based. • Access and add bookmarks from any computer with Internet access. • Tools for social bookmarking: • Del.icio.us • CiteULike

  4. del.icio.us: What Is It? "a collection of favorites - yours and everyone else's."  • Uses the following browsers: • Firefox • Internet Explorer • Safari • Opera • Flock • Uses tags, NOT folders to organize bookmarks

  5. Tags? "one-word descriptors . . . You can assign as many tags to a bookmark as you like and easily rename or delete them later.” Benefits of tagging: • Track online sources • Explore other publications that have the same or similar tag(s)

  6. del.icio.us: How Does It Work? • Sign up. • Install "my del.icio.us" and "tag this" buttons into browser of your choice. • Begin bookmarking and tagging websites.

  7. buttons! text box! tag tools!

  8. CiteULike: What Is It? “a free service to help you to store, organise and share the scholarly papers you are reading” • Uses ANY browser(s) of your choice. No buttons to add-it’s not bound to one browser. • Uses tags and author names to organize bookmarks.

  9. CiteULike: How Does It Work? • Sign up. • Add the CiteULike bookmarklet into the browser of your choice. • Bookmark articles from a supported database using the “Post to CiteULike" bookmark, OR post articles manually. • Assign priority level.

  10. Navigation Menu!

  11. del.icio.us Versus CiteULike • del.icio.us • Big community of users = more chances for finding additional sources • User-friendly design • Ease of use • Purpose: Social network • CiteULike • Focus on scholarly sources • Collects and stores bibliographic information • Purpose: Academic network

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