Bookmarking and sharing web sites is great, but what about storing and sharing other types of resources, like journal articles and book citations? Social reference managers are the answer, because they allow users to bookmark, tag, store, and share regular web resources, Even more, they can parse and manage citation information, with or without links to online resources. These programs are designed primarily with the academic or researcher in mind—most work hand in hand with e-journal vendors, institutional repositories, and other sources of online scholarly materials. The two most popular social reference managers, CiteULike and Con-notea, also let users import and export data to and from desktop bibliographic management software programs like EndNote, though it takes a little finesse.
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