CiteULike

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CiteULike is a unique and free service provided by Richard Cameron (here?) for academics to share their reading lists and references. This pages is where I collect tips and wishes for the system.

Resources 

For an introduction to CiteULike in Anthopology, read, see Tutorial: How to use CiteULike with AnthroSource

Richard’s blog is found at http://www.livejournal.com/users/citeulike/

Info about developing plug-ins for the system: http://www.livejournal.com/users/citeulike/11953.html 

A minimalist tutorial:

  1. You need to sign up and create an account first.
  2. Log on
  3. Join the ReadingLab group.  (or, View group, find the ReadingLab group, and "ask to join the group".) The Group manger (yours truely) has to approve your application, which takes a mouse click. But email me and let you know you are in the que.
  4. To post article, you can Manually post article
  5. Or, use the bookmarklet from this page. Make sure you have logged in first so that the bookmarklet will have your user name in it.
  6. Once the above bookmarklet is set, find an article on PubMed, ScienceDirect, or similar site. Go to the article page, where you see detailed author info and abstract. Click on the bookmarklet you created. If everything goes well, it will open a separate window, and after a few seconds, display a CiteULike entry page and ask you to input "tags". If instead you see a page asking you to manually input all fields of the reference, then your online publisher is not supported by CiteULike (and someone needs to create a plug-in for it).
  7. Assuming the above works, type in some tags, or keywords, for the article. Tags are separated by spaces. So if you want "inhibition of return" as a tag, type "inhibition_of_return" instead.
  8. Optionally you can post comments/notes. You can make it public or private.
  9. Click "Post article" or "Post article with comment".
  10. Your new article should appear in both your library and the ReadingLab group library.
  11. Subsequent notes posted to the entry from the ReadingLab group are shared within the group. However, if you post notes to the entry in your own library, it won’t show in the group entry, for some reason.
  12. Explore the system. If you see a paper you like, you can copy/repost it to your own library.

Tips:

  • You need to sign up for the group that you created; and the manager has to approve it.
  • the bookmarklet overwrites the current webpage (although it returns to it afterwards). I created a new one that opens in a new window.

    javascript:void(window.open(’http://www.citeulike.org/posturl?
    username=YourLogOnName
    &url=’+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+’
    &title=’+encodeURIComponent(document.title)),’CiteULikebookmarklet’,
    ’scrollbars=yes,width=600,height=460,left=100,top=150,status=yes’)

  • How do you make a private paper public? All references imported from bibtxt are private — you can upload your own PDF, which is great. But I don’t see a way to turn it to Public, or even for a group.
  • To do unordered list in the Notes field: It appears that the system does some markup on the notes: if you type "–" at the beginning of a line, it will turn into a pretty red dot. What else can it do?
  • The reference in your library is different from the one that appeare in the group library. Your initial comment will show in the group library entry, but subsequently if you post comments on your own entry, it won’t show up any more. This is a problem for a group to share references.
CiteULike now has a Bug tracking/wikiwiki site at http://trac.citeulike.org. 

Wishes for citeulike, hopes for PyULike

  • Communications (private messages) among users
  • trackbacks or similar functions to see what other people say about a paper or a comment
  • RSS feed for other users’ comments
  • on the group main page: show frequent Group tags rather than "everyone’s tags"
  • having a "STICK" option: for references that I want to stay at top, rather than being pushed down by newer posts — there is a link to view "to-be-read" articles, sorted by the stars, but it can be improved.
  • sorting references by desire to read, date of posting (default), date of publication, author name, etc.
  • have an option to share an article with some groups or with all users. 

Firefox CiteULike Search Engine

I developed a search engine plugin for firefox. it’s a toy project: all it does is to search citeulike.org for references with a specific tag. I started here, and it took about 30 minutes. The script was developed and validated here. The Mazilla site no longer takes user submissions. To use the script, copy and paste it to a text editor, and save it as something like "citeuliketagsearch.src". Then put it under the "searchplugins" folder (on Windows, it shoudl be in "Program files\firefox\searchplugins" or something like that).

<search
 version="7.1"
 name="CiteULike Tag search"
 description="CiteULike.Org Tag Search Plugin"
 action="http://www.citeulike.org/search/all"
 searchForm="http://www.citeulike.org/search/all"
 method="GET"
 >

<input name="f" value="tag">
<input name="q" user>

<interpret
 resultListStart="<div class="vague">All articles on CiteULike matching your search criteria</div>"
 resultListEnd="<table width="100%" border="0"><tr>"
 resultItemStart=’<a class="title"’
 resultItemEnd="<span class="Z3988""
>
</search>

<browser
 update="http://mycroft.mozdev.org/update.php/id0/myplugin.src"
 updateIcon="http://mycroft.mozdev.org/update.php/id0/myplugin.png"
 updateCheckDays="7"
>

To-do:

It needs an icon.

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