Bookmarking Your Research

Since it's getting down to the last couple weeks of research and paper writing this semester, you may want to explore ideas for keeping track of your sources. Sure, you're able to print out all of your articles and websites, and it's often easy to save all of your sources directly to your computer or flash drive.

But, have you ever used social bookmarking to contain all of your research in one place that is accessible wherever you can access the Internet? Take a look at a few resources that might help out with organization and citation here:

*Diigo- Not only can you save Web pages, add subject tags for easy retrieval, and share them with group members, but Diigo will also let you highlight and post sticky notes to information in your bookmarks! Pretty neat.

*Delicious- Probably the most popular bookmarking tool around, this one is pretty straightforward and easy to use. A very nice advantage is the ability to install browser buttons for Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Google Chrome that make bookmarking resources a simple click of the mouse. Read more about them here.

*Connotea- This one is geared most towards academic researchers, so you may want to take note of its features. One benefit of Connotea is that it is able to extract as much information as possible from a website/journal article, and save it for you to refer back to when you begin citing your sources.

All of them require creating an account, but they're free, and can be a great help as the semester is wrapping up!