CiteULike is a new way of managing your literature – as you are browsing papers you can store a paper citation as easily as adding a bookmark.

CiteULike is more than just your personal research library:

• ‘tag’ papers into categories
• add your own comments on papers
• allow others to see your library

By storing your literature on CiteULike, not only are you using a useful, powerful, easy to use citation management tool, you are contributing to the AT evidence base. By joining the AT group, you will help build up a library of papers related to AT.

• Registering is free and easy - CiteULike is run voluntarily by an awfully nice person (Richard Cameron) and will not use your registration details. Don’t believe me though, read more here.

• Once you have registered your web browser will probably keep you logged on for ever (if you chose the ‘keep me logged in forever’ button), so you wont need to re-logon.

• The only thing you have to do to setup CiteULike is add a bookmark, you only have to do this once, but have to do it... Go to the bookmark link (here), right click on the link and choose ‘Add to Bookmarks’...

On logging on, CiteULike will probably take you to either ‘Everyone’s Library’ or ‘your library’:

• Everyone’s Library - this shows papers from EVERYONE on the site (not just Assistive Technology people. Kinda interesting to browse sometimes... papers you post will appear on this list for a bit...
• Your Library - a link to this (with your username as a titlewill always be in the top right of the CiteULikesite whenever you are logged on. When you post a paper to CiteULike, they will appear in your library.

Note the ‘tags’ on the right and some of the other fun buttons on the left hand side - we’ll come onto them soon

Time to actually put something in your library:

• First you need to find a paper in one of the PaperDatabases - CiteULike grabs the citation from the paper database website so at the moment not all paper databases will work - if you can’t find it first go, see the ‘Difficult to find Papers’ section below.
• Once you have found the paper you want (e.g. this one or this one just select your ‘Post to CiteULike’ bookmark .

Assuming that CiteULike likes this database the CiteULike posting page will appear - this lets you:

• Choose CiteULikeTags for the article
• Give it a priority (this later appears as a star rating on your library)
• Add notes (which you can choose to keep private or public)

Choose the Post Article or Post Article with Comments buttons.

This will post the article and take you back to the article in the paper database. If you want to look at the article in your library, just choose Back on your web browser.

Open the groups page (get to this by clicking ‘groups’ on the left hand toolbar on CiteULike). Find the ‘Assistive Technology’ group - click on ‘Join this Group’ link.

You have now joined the group, and can view the AT group's page. Joining the group does a number of things:

• Puts a lot of AT evidence in one place
• Allows you to get an RSS (news) feed of new papers that are added (about RSS).
• Helps you share your library with others of a similar ilk
• Lets you browse for other literature that might be of interest to you

Important: Now you are in the group you need to check the box to post to the Assitive Technology group when you post a paper...

CiteULike lets you add a personal copy of the paper to your library - this can’t be shared with other people for obvious reasons of copyright. To add the pdf, just find the paper in your library and choose the Browse button by Personal PDF.

Add your paper manually:

If you can find the paper in a paper database, but not one that works with CiteULike:

• try to post as normal
• the CiteULike page will apear and invite you to enter the details...
• enter as many details as you can - remember other people may read this reference, definitely include the abstract and author !
• Click Post Article

If you can’t find the paper anywhere!:

• Choose the post manually link.
• the CiteULike page will apear and invite you to enter the details...
• enter as many details as you can - remember other people may read this reference, definitely include the abstract and author !
• Click Post Article

OK, it may be that the paper is one of the other many PaperDatabases in the world... the easiest way to find this out is to use Google Scholar.

Google Scholar is an awesome tool - it is a Google search, but just of papers. It searches all(?) the paper databases and also turns up lots more (e.g. unpublished doctoral thesis) useful stuff.

If you want to find a version of the paper citation that CiteULike will support, just type the title of the paper into Scholar. It will probably come up first on the list. Next to the title you will hopefully see something saying “Group of n” - click this.

You will now be presented with a list of the different sources for this citation. - e.g. Blackwell Synergy, Ingentaconnect. One of these sources should, hopefully, work with CiteULike - you quickly get to recognise which ones work and which dont.

• Google Scholar Help

There is an excellent little tool for Firefox called Zotero - this tool is like CiteULike and grabs citations from paper databases onto your computer. It also works really nicely with Google Scholar and will often pick up citations from Scholar that other tools struggle to reach...

• Get Firefox (if you haven’t already)
• Install Zotero and restart Firefox
• Search for your article
• Click the little ‘wallet’ in the address bar of Firefox
• Tick your paper in the list that pops up

You have now saved the paper to your computer... you now need to export it to BibTex and import it into CiteULike...

• Highlight your paper in the Zotero window
• Right click on it and choose ‘Export’
• Choose BibTex from the list
• Find somewhere to put it

You could also use a reference manager to grab the BibTex of the citation. This is documented on this site for JabRef (a free reference manager).

However you have your BibTex, you can easily import it into CiteULike:

• Go to the CiteULike BibTex import page
• Click on ‘Browse’ - find your bibtex file (.bib)
• Add whatever tags you want
• Click ‘Import’

• Add CiteULike to your Google Home Page:

If you have a Google account and use their customised home page, then you can add a gadget to search citeulike from this home page. Cool eh.

• Find your neighbours on CiteULike

An interesting tool that exploits the ‘social bookmarking’ aspect of CiteULike and shows you people who have posted similar things to you.

• CiteULike search tools for Firefox

Firefox search plugins let you quickly and easily search - now you can search through the CiteULike library from your browser.

— Simon Judge 2006/11/24