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One of the good (potentially great) things about on-line reference sites is that it can put you in touch with those academics who share interests with you. This particulary true with CiteULike, which by design encourages co-operation, for example, it allows you to see who else shares a reference in your library.
The link belows is a tool which works out which users share the most articles in your CiteULike collection, and you can then cherry pick interesting articles from their collections.
I first found this on the shadow blog, who turned out to one of my neighbours!
The link is here:
Technorati Tags: citeulike - social networking - reference management
About the author: Shane is a post doctoral researcher in Psychology. When not doing things which end in athlon, and running around being busy, he wonders whether if he literally means running when he says he is running around, or if it is just a metaphor.
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AMA citation:
Lindsay S. Meet your academic neighbours in CiteULike. Academic Productivity. 2006. Available at: http://www.academicproductivity.com/2006/meet-your-academic-neighbours-in-cite-u-like/. Accessed November 21, 2008.
APA citation:
Lindsay, Shane. (2006). Meet your academic neighbours in CiteULike. Retrieved November 21, 2008, from Academic Productivity Web site: http://www.academicproductivity.com/2006/meet-your-academic-neighbours-in-cite-u-like/
Chicago citation:
Lindsay, Shane. 2006. Meet your academic neighbours in CiteULike. Academic Productivity. http://www.academicproductivity.com/2006/meet-your-academic-neighbours-in-cite-u-like/ (accessed November 21, 2008).
Harvard citation:
Lindsay, S 2006, Meet your academic neighbours in CiteULike, Academic Productivity. Retrieved November 21, 2008, from <http://www.academicproductivity.com/2006/meet-your-academic-neighbours-in-cite-u-like/>
MLA citation:
Lindsay, Shane. "Meet your academic neighbours in CiteULike." 20 Dec. 2006. Academic Productivity. Accessed 21 Nov. 2008. <http://www.academicproductivity.com/2006/meet-your-academic-neighbours-in-cite-u-like/>
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December 20th, 2006 at 11:18 am
It should be mentioned that Connotea has a built-in feature to identify related users:
Source: http://www.connotea.org/faq