Thanks to Andrei Sobolevskii for his comment pointing me to a wonderful initiative : CiteULike.

What is CiteULike?
CiteULike is a free service to help academics to share, store, and organise the academic papers they are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. CiteULike automatically extracts the citation details, so there’s no need to type them in yourself. It all works from within your web browser. There’s no need to install any special software.
Because your library is stored on the server, you can access it from any computer. You can share you library with others, and find out who is reading the same papers as you. In turn, this can help you discover literature which is relevant to your field but you may not have known about.
When it comes to writing up your results in a paper, you can export your library to either BibTeX or Endnote to build it in to your bibliography. CiteULike has a flexible filing system, so you actually stand a chance of being able to find that article that you stored a few months ago when you need it.

If all this seems too abstract, here is an excellent practical introduction (also suggested by Andrei). This text focusses on articles from AnthroSource but if you’re a mathematician, do the same things when you are at the abstract page of a paper on the arXiv or a paper description from MathSciNet. The really nice thing is that you virtually have to do no typing at all (apart from the tags you want to add to classify the paper where you want it or, if you want, to add a note about the paper). Another exciting feature is that you can upload your personal copy of the paper. A typical situation : most of us can get the PDF-file of a published paper at work (because the university has a contract with the publisher) but not at home, on the road or on vacation. So, while at work, download the PDF, upload it as your personal copy to citeUlike and you can read that paper wherever you have internet access! But there is more : you can export the BibTeX-data of your whole library and use it in your next paper, every library has its separate RSS-feed so you can feed it to a news-aggregator (or to bloglines) to find out whether someone with similar interests added a new paper to his/her library, you can create Groups that is collections of Libraries of people interested in the same topic, so that others can help you finding stuff of value (and again, such Group-libraries have there own RSS-feed so….), all libraries have all tags used by the Library-owner in a graphical format, the larger the tag-text the more it is used in the Library, so just by looking at the right-sidebar you get a good idea what the person’s interests are, etc. etc. etc. I’m just two days into citeUlike and there will be tons of features I still have to discover and I’ll report on this later. At the moment I just added a few papers to my Library but I will extend this drasticly in the weeks ahead. If you want to check on my progress here is lieven’s Library or the citeIlike link in the header of this blog (between the ‘about me’ and the ’search’ link) and I hope that many of you will add similar buttons on your homepages.
Finally, if you are interested in Noncommutative algebraic and/or differential geometry, I’ve set up a Group-Library NoncommutativeGeometry. At the moment it’s just identical to my own Library, but please register to citeUlike, set up your own Library and if you’re into NOG join this group!

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arxiv, differential, geometry, groups, noncommutative

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Posted in general, iMath
Written on Fri, 13 January 2006 at 3:09 pm
Tags: arxiv, differential, geometry, groups, noncommutative
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