CiteULike Tracks Favorite Citations

So many lovely Web sites, so little time. So many intriguing research papers, so little time. You may be familiar with sites like furl.net, which help you track interesting Web sites. CiteULike ( http://www.citeulike.org/ ) lets you track interesting research papers.

Just let me take a moment and sigh with happiness. Huaaaahhhhh. Thank you.

You'll need to register to use this. Once you've registered CiteULike provides you with a bookmarklet. Add th' bookmarklet to your toolbar. After you've added it, look for an article of interest at one of the research sites CiteULike supports. Supported sites include PubMed, HubMed, CiteSeer, and ScienceDirect.

I went to PubMed and found "Balance disorders in the elderly and the benefit of balance exercise." After looking at the abstract and confirming it was something I'd be interested in, I clicked the bookmarklet. I was taken back to CiteULike and given a place to add keywords for the article and some notes. I did that and was kicked back to the article. But now I had a pointer in my library.

This may be a bit much for you to do; you may be more interested in browsing what OTHER people are interested in. Fine. On the front page you'll see a list of the most recent papers added, an interesting list in itself. This list is available as an RSS feed. There are also lists of the most popular tags on the right, from networks to game theory to microbiotics. All these are available as RSS feeds.

Strangely enough I did not see a search function, but if you take the URL http://www.citeulike.org/tag/fred and replace the word fred with the keyword of your choice, you'll get a search result based on the citation tags. These results are all available as RSS feeds.

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