Managing references with CiteULike
I’ve just set up an acount with www.citeulike.org to keep track of papers. Speaking from my first impressions, here are some advantages and disadvantages:
Advantages:
- Clear and intuitive layout
- Can import and export BibTeX references.
- Can export EndNote and RSS.
- Lets you manually edit BibTeX citation keys (unlike Connotea).
- Lets you upload a personal .pdf copy.
- Can automatically add a post from a number of publisher’s URLs, via a bookmarklet.
- You can also manually add a citation, in case it is not online (again, seems this is not possible with Connotea).
- The interface for searching your articles is intuitive and fast (for my handful of articles so far), and there’s a nice function for filtering by keywords (tags) either within your own library or for all articles.
- Haven’t tried the function for “groups”, but this could be nice for labs.
- It is free.
Disadvantages:
- It does not recognize doi.
- When I visit a publisher’s URL via the university library website, CiteULike is not able to extract information about that article, even though it can extract the information just fine when I visit the publisher’s URL directly (probably has to do with the library proxy servers?).
- It is not open source