[Web4lib] social bookmarking sites

[David Rothman]

Hi Janette.

It'll depend a litle on what you mean by "Social bookmarking."  For
instance, some people call Digg <http://www.digg.com/> a social bookmarking
service ...though I'm not really sure I'm comfortable with that.

I've written a bunch of blog posts of "Digg for Medical Literature" that may
be of interest.  You can find a list of them at the bottom of this
post<http://davidrothman.net/2007/11/14/health2info-digg-for-medical-literature-part-xi/>
.
The bigger social bookmarking tools for academic literature, I believe, are
CiteULike <http://www.citeulike.org/> and Connotea<http://www.connotea.org/>,
but Elsevier recent came out with 2Collab <http://www.2collab.com/>.
Of these, I've enjoyed playing with Connotea the most, but still use
del.icio.us for most things.

Much more expert than I am on social bookmarking for biomedical literature
is medical librarian Melissa Rethlefsen (Education Technology Librarian at
the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN), who wrote an article for Library Journal
on Social Bookmarking
tools<http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6476403.html> and
another article on such tools specifically for medical
libraryfolk<http://midwestmla.org/midline/2007/11/feature_articlesocial_bookmark.html>
.

Hope that helps!

-David

David Rothman
Community General Hospital Medical Library
Syracuse, NY
http://davidrothman.net
http://www.libworm.com



On Jan 8, 2008 5:32 PM, janette treanor <janettetreanor at gmail.com> wrote:

> Morning all,
>
> I am looking at social bookmarking sites for academics (medical in
> particular).
> Does anyone have any comments?
> What do you use and why not another one?
>
> thank you in advance and have a wonderful day
> janette treanor
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