Academic Bookmarking
The latest development in social bookmarking has taken an academic twist. Adapting the concept of sites like Furl and del.icio.us, CiteULike and connotea, provide an online space for academics to collaborate by sharing all types of academic resources.

CiteULike is designed to automatically import citations from IEEE Xplore, JSTOR and ScienceDirect – databases accessible from NUS Libraries. Both CiteULike and connotea automatically import PubMed citations. Other resources can also be bookmarked in both sites, but the entries have to be made manually.

Tracking topics is easy as RSS feeds are available for various tags. These tags are user-defined index entries which allow easy searching and retrieving of resources.

Another advantage of these academic bookmark sites is that they can be accessed anywhere there is Internet access. Accessing the same set of bookmarks from the office, the lecture theatre or the library is now possible. Besides peer-reviewed sources, connotea allows bookmarking of relevant and useful websites. CiteULike also allows this but prefers peer-reviewed resources.