CiteULike is a free online web service that is used to organize, manage and discover academic publications. It already has over 3,000,000 articles publicated, and it is growing so fast everyday. It was created three years ago by Richard Cameron in the University of Manchester.
It’s based on colaborations, colective constructions and communitary spaces of information. It allows users to bookmark and also tag URIs (Uniform Resource Indentifiers, which are a string of characters used to identify a name or a resource on the Internet), and then share them using simple links.
This website is based on social bookmarking: A method for users to share, organize, search and manage bookmarks.
The basic characteristics or actions to be done in the web are this, according to themselves:
- Easily store references you find online.
- Discover new articles and resource.
- Automated article recommendations.
- Share references with your peers.
- Find out who’s reading what you’re reading.
- Store and search your PDFs.
If you like this idea of sharing information and articles with other people, just go into their website www.citeulike.org and click “Join now”. It’s easy, fast and completely free!
References:
- CiteULike (2009). In CiteUlike.org. Retrieved 18.35, December 20, 2009, from: http://www.citeulike.org/
- CiteULike (18.01, November 29, 2009). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 18.46, December 20, 2009, from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CiteULike
- Uniform Resource Identifier (17.21, December 7, 2009). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 19.05, December 20, 2009, from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier
- Social bookmarking (16.43, December 20, 2009). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 19.08, December 20, 2009, from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking
- CiteULike: Gestor de referencias sociales. In Slideshare. Retrieved 19.30, December 20, 2009, from: http://www.slideshare.net/jalonsoarevalo/citeulike-gestor-de-referencias-sociales
