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HelpWhat is Connotea?
Connotea (pronounced con-no-TAY-uh), is a free, online social reference management tool that allows you to "orgainse, share, and discover" your research sources. It is completely free, works on all browsers and operating systems and was created by the New Technology department of the Nature Publishing Group. The inspiration for the site came from del.icio.us.
How It Works
- Watch a short video (2m 41s)
Getting Started
Go to connotea.com and click on the red "Sign up Now" button.
Adding references to Connotea
Connotea recognizes citation information from a wide variety of websites.
- Adding Articles Using the Browser Button
- Adding Articles Using the Add Form
- Adding Articles Directly Using DOIs
- Automatic Collection of Bibliographic Information
You can save any page on the web to your library, but Connotea will automatically fetch additional bibliographic information for pages saved from the following sources:
- Nature.com
- PubMed
- PubMed Central
- Science
- PloS
- BioMed Central
- Supported EPrints repositories
- Supported Highwire Press publications
- Blackwell Synergy
- Wiley Interscience
- Scitation
- arXiv.org
- Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System
- Amazon
- HubMed
- D-Lib Magazine
In addition, any DOI will be recognised, and Connotea can often automatically discover bibliographic information from sites' RSS feeds.
Managing your references in Connotea
Basic integration with Word
Word 2007 has some built-in support for bibliographies and citations. It's pretty basic and has some, um, issues, but by using it you can get your Connotea bookmarks into Word fairly quickly.
Acknowledgement:
This workshop guide was adapted from Krista Ivy's Zotero workshop guide. Thank you Krista.
Contact:
Michael Yonezawa, Reference Librarian
Rivera Library
Email: yonezawa@ucr.edu
Phone: (951) 827-2896