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Here's a summary of the recent happenings on CiteULike.
A German-speaking CiteULike user has kindly created a CiteULike tutorial and made it available here [moodle.donau-uni.ac.at].
Posted by cjhall.
We've added a new Neighbours feature. Your CiteULike neighbours are other CiteULike users who have posted the same articles as you. If you are logged-in, then the list of your neighbours is available on the "My CiteULike" drop-down menu. If you want to see another user's neighbours list, it's available under that user's profile tab, or directly from the URL, for example:
When looking at a list of neighbours, you can click on the article counts to show the list of articles which the two neighbours have in common.
This is an impementation of a web page originally created by Sascha Carlin
Posted by cjhall.
We've changed the site navigation to use a horizontal menubar rather than the collection of links at the left of the page. We think this tidies things up a bit, as well as making space for a few new sponsored links. Please let us know if you have any problems in your browser.
Posted by cjhall.
We've added a RIS file import. It works in the same way as the BibTeX import, and is available from the Import sub-tab of your library.
Posted by cjhall.
You can now specify multiple tags in URLs for a user's library (URLs which look like /user/username/tag/tagname).
To specify that multiple tags should be present, separate them with commas ",". To specify that a tag shouldn't be present, precede it an exclamation mark "!".
There are a couple of examples on the discussion forum here
Posted by cjhall.
We've made article notes use the same text format for markup as forum messages, reviews and blog articles - the new format is properly documented and supported by us. Old notes have been updated, where possible, to be use the new formatting.
Posted by cjhall.
We've added a CiteGeist feature to show which articles are "hot" (sorry about the name, but we just couldn't resist it).
Posted by cjhall.
There's a new plugin for the Annual Reviews site.
Posted by cjhall.
There's a new plugin for the Open Repository family of sites.
Many thanks to Graham Triggs for contributing it.
Posted by cjhall.
There's a new plugin for the AMS (American Meteorological Society Journals) site.
Many thanks to Dan Hodson for contributing it.
Posted by cjhall.
There's a new plugin for the EdITLib (Education & Information Technology Library) site.
Posted by cjhall.
The article posting page has been modified to allow you to upload a PDF document at the same time as you post an article. It's possible to upload the PDF to private groups at the same time - if you do this you will need to indicate that you have the right to do this.
When copying an article from your own library to one or more groups, there is also the option to copy the PDF as well.
Posted by cjhall.
For people wanting to write software to integrate with CiteULike, there are two sources of data which may be useful.
Firstly, making a request to
or
where the "..." is replaced with the URL of an article on the web (properly url-encoded) will tell you whether CiteULike is able to extract the metadata from it.
Secondly, a dataset mapping CiteULike article_ids to things like URLs, DOIs, Pubmed IDs, etc is available. See the data download page for further details.
Posted by camster.
There's a new plugin for the PsyCONTENT site.
Posted by cjhall.
Following on from an interesting blog post by John Udell there's now a way for programmers to write tools to query CiteULike and find out who has posted a particular article.
The following links will fetch an XML representation of which users and which groups have posted a particular Pubmed article or DOI:
Again, this might not much sense unless you're a programmer wanting to automatically query the CiteULike database.
Posted by camster.
There's a new plugin for the Education Resources Information Center site (ERIC).
Posted by cjhall.
We've tidied up the article pages to make them a bit more readable. Years of new features had been piling up in no particular order and the pages were just getting a bit unwieldy. All the functionality that was there before is still there, but hopefully it should be a little bit easier to find now.
Posted by camster.
There's a new plugin for the International Union of Crystallography site .
The IUCr site uses frames, so to bookmark an article using the bookmarklet you must have the abstract open in its own page - the URL should then look something like:
If you are browsing articles, you can get to this page by finding the DOI link and using it to open the article in a new page or tab.
Many thanks to Aidan Heerdegen for contributing this plugin.
Posted by cjhall.
There's a new plugin for the Liebert Online site published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
Many thanks to Dr. Nathan Edwards for contributing it.
Posted by cjhall.
The BibTeX import has been extended to allow you to update articles in your target library. The article to update is found by matching the BibTeX key. An update only takes place if exactly one matching article is found, otherwise a new article is created. A match to more than one article raises an error.
When updating an article, you can specify whether tags ('keywords' in the BibTeX file) should be merged or replaced. The same merge/replace applies for notes ('comment' or 'note' in the BibTeX file). If the keywords or note/comment field contains the string '-delete-all-', this is taken as an instruction to delete all the tags/notes for that article (unfortunately, a blank field is discarded, so that doesn't work).
Posted by cjhall.
If you have an author in your CiteULike library containing an accented character (like "Erdős") then it will now be formatted correctly if you export it as a BibTeX record.
In this case you'd get "Erd\H{o}s" rather than "Erdős". Computers seem to prefer it that way round, which only goes to show how dumb they can be sometimes.
Posted by camster.
We've added a new plugin for the Cambridge Journals site published by Cambridge University Press.
Posted by cjhall.
We've made a number of changes to the user interface. These are mainly in response to user requests through the discussion forums.
Posted by cjhall.
Over the last week it has sometimes been difficult to access http://www.citeulike.org due to probems with our DNS provider (a UK subsidiary of Pipex). This problem was most acute on Saturday 18th November when the site appeared unreachable to some users for large parts of the day. The problem has now been resolved.
We are actively seeking to move our DNS records to a company more able to provide us, and you, with a much better quality of service. We'll post a further update when this has been done.
We're sorry for any inconvenience this problem may have caused.
Posted by cjhall.
There's a new plugin to deal with the Journal of Machine Learning
Many thanks to Karl-Michael Schneider for contributing it.
Posted by camster.
Released a new plugin for DBLP - a large archive of computer science articles, hosted at http://dblp.uni-trier.de/
The plugin works for the BibTeX record page associated with each article.
This plugin was contributed to Leonardo Lucena - many thanks for this, Leonardo.
Posted by cjhall.
The news page is now available as RSS.
Posted by cjhall.
We've added a new feature to format citations in some commonly-used bibliography styles. You should see a citation box on each article page, the contents of which can be copied and pasted into your word processor.
There's a drop-down menu which lets you choose which style you want. Currently this contains:
... although it's remarkably easy to add other formats on demand. If there's a particular journal style you need then please just drop us a note in the discussion forum and we'll do our best to add it.
Posted by camster.
We've added PDF uploads for private groups only. You can upload a PDF for each article in a private group just as you can to your own library. You need to have permission to post to the group. You must certify that you have the right to distribute the article before you upload it.
Posted by cjhall.
The article page has been modified to allow you to upload personal PDFs for articles which are also Amazon books.
Posted by cjhall.
We've added a privacy flag to the import page - you can now specify that all the articles you import should be marked as private.
Posted by cjhall.
Added a group preferences page to each group - it's the "Preferences" sub-tab under the "Info" tabe for groups. At the moment, there's only one item to be set: Auto-post. If Auto-post is checked, then the group will be pre-selected in the list of your groups presented to you as posting destinations when you post an article.
Posted by cjhall.
Added "Rename Tag" and "Delete Tag" functions. They are available for user libraries and group libraries. Go to the "Library" tab, and then to the "Tags" sub-tab. You'll see links to "Rename" or "Delete" a tag.
Posted by cjhall.
Added an RSS feed for each group - it's an enhanced version of the "Recent Group Activity" page. It's available on each group's "home" page.
Posted by cjhall.
We've updated the blog and forum functions.
Groups now have a blog. A group blog can be marked as private, and if it is, then it can only be read by group members. Any non-restricted group member can write blog articles. If the group is public, then any logged-in user can post comments.
An extra level of classification of forums has been added - subjects. For busy groups, this should help to organise the forums better. Group forum subjects can be marked as private - if they are, then they will not be visible to users who are not members of the group. We're going to try to use group forums within CiteULike rather then group message boards to organise feature requests and general discussions.
Blogs and forums now have 'threaded' messages - you can reply to a specific comment and the display will reflect this.
If blog articles or forums have no comments posted to them, they can be deleted (by group administrators if in a group, or by the owner if a user's blog article).
Comments (in blogs message boards or forums) can be deleted by their owners.
Posted by cjhall.
has been written by Kristinn B. Gylfason. Thank you Kristinn.
has been written by Karl-Michael Schneider. Thank you Karl-Michael.
The various issues with the RSS feeds have been fixed. Thanks to all the people who helped by submitting bug reports.
We have had a huge response from people using the Invite a friend feature. The more people use CiteULike the better it becomes as a resource. Thanks to everyone who has been supporting us in this way.
Posted by OriginalLurch.
This is a brief note outlining the new functionality which has been released today.
Your own CiteULike content is now all accessible through a series of "tabs":
An overview of the functions available under each tab is given below.
Each CiteULike user now has a profile page. You can use this to put some information about who you are and what you do. We will be adding to the collaboration features of CiteULike in the future; you might want to fill out your profile to let other people know a bit about you. Your profile page displays a news mini-feed which gives you a potted history of your significant activity on the site.
All of your library functions are available under the library tab. The JavaScript-based 'Search My Library' function has been retired (those of you who have very large libraries will know that it wasn't working very well), and has been replaced with a more normal search box. We believe this is a great improvement; please let us know if you disagree. You can now post private articles to your library. See below for more details. It's now possible to copy any article in your library to any of the groups which you are a member of (assuming that you are allowed to post articles to that group).
There have been no changes to the watchlist functionality.
The groups section displays a list of the public groups which each user is a member of. If you are looking at your own groups list, then the page also gives a summary of any invitations you have received to join other groups, and which groups you have asked to join.
Every user now has a blog. You can create blog articles and specify whether other users can comment on them or not, and whether anonymous comments are allowed. The messages can have a limited amount of wiki-style markup applied to them. There's help available on this markup from a link next to the editing box.
We have extended the group functions within CiteULike. Also, we've removed the group approval process - when you create a group, it is now useable immediately. Groups now have the following features:
We have used tabs to try to separate these functions into sensible sections. Please let is know if you find it hard to navigate using these tabs.
A group's home page now displays a history of all the noteworthy group happenings. The following actions are displayed:
There are two different sorts of groups: public and private. Public groups can be seen by all CiteULike users; private groups are only visible to their members, or to non-members who have been invited to join them.
A public group can be set up so that
Private groups can only be joined by invitation.
There are three classes of group member:
A restricted member can
A full member can
The administrator can
A group's library is now separate from the libraries of its members (if you haven't used the previous implementation of groups, then don't worry about this). This change in response to numerous requests from CiteULike users. The group library functions like any other library: it is searchable, exportable, and can polled by RSS readers, and can be placed on watchlists. You can post private articles to a group library - see below for more details.
Each group has a message board which can be used to post messages to the group. These messages are displayed in reverse-time order, and, at present, messages for the previous 28 days are displayed. These messages can have wiki-style markup applied to them.
Each group can have discussion forums associated with it. These forums can be created by any group's full or administrative members, and are designed to facilitate discussion on group-related topics amongst group users. It's possible to set up each forum to allow anonymous posts, and posts from non-members. Forum messages can have wiki-style markup applied to them.
A group's administrators are responsible for the upkeep of a group. If the group requires would-be members to apply to join, then the administrator must accept or reject all such applications.
The administrator has the ability to delegate their role to other group members, by changing that user's membership to Administrator. Users who abuse the group's facilities can be suspended.
There is a new function to invite other CiteULike users to join a group. The function is available from the group's home page. Any group member can invite any other CiteULike user to join their group. There is a separate function which allows you to invite non-CiteULike members to join - see below.
We have added an "Invite a Friend" feature to CiteULike. You can enter their email addresses, and an optional piece of text which will be embedded in an email sent to each address asking the recipient to register with CiteULike. You can also, optionally, arrange for each recipient to be invited to any (or none) of the groups whch you are a member of. There's a preview feature which allows you to see what will be sent to each of your recipients. Please use this feature to grow the CiteULike community.
The search function has been greatly improved to return more relevant content in a much more intuitive manner. Rather than having to select which field (title, author, username, etc) you want to search, there is now just a single search box which will search all fields. In addition, there is now an advanced search syntax which allows searching of phrases, combinations of terms (such as +tag:world +tag:web), wildcards, and per-field search.
We have fixed a long-standing bug whereby some items in your library (notably those items which were imported from a BibTeX file) were not being indexed correctly. These items should now appear in your search results. Another long-standing bug whereby the search index could become out of sync with the contents of the database has now been fixed. In addition, we're quite pleased that we now return lists of users and groups who have articles relevant to your search terms. This works as a very effective way of discovering people who share your research interests. Simply search for a subject and discover people with similar interests to you.
You can now post articles privately to your library, or to a group's library. Only you, or members of the group, will be able to see them (and only when you're logged in to the site). This feature should allow you to post articles without anyone else knowing what your reading. The tags you use will not be publicly available in the tagcloud, your articles won't be returned by other users searching for them, and they won't appear on your profile's mini-feed.
Posted by cjhall.