Ten Simple Rules for Searching and Organizing the Scientific Literature Export

@article{citeulike:6080536, abstract = {The exponentially increasing number of published papers (1.4 million per year by one estimate) makes it more and more difficult for us to manage the flood of scientific information. Each of us has acquired some protocol to find and organize journal articles and other references over the course of our careers. Most of those protocols are likely to have been formed by old routines or idleness rather than a structured approach to save time and frustration over the long run. Furthermore, with the Web 2.0 revolution, new ways of handling information are emerging (O'Reilly 2005). For example, traditional standalone tools for reference management like EndNote are being supplemented by centralized resources like RefWorks and social bookmarking sites as described subsequently. This fusion of personal and public information offers the promise of efficiency through better organization, which in turn leads to better science.How can seasoned scientists do better using these tools and those newer to the field start off in the right way? To start to answer that question, I present ten simple rules to master the search and organization of new literature. This is not meant to be comprehensive. It represents the experiences of a few and I welcome your thoughts, through comments to this article, on what you do to keep your references organized.}, author = {Bauer, Denis C.}, citeulike-article-id = {6080536}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2009.3867.1}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://precedings.nature.com/documents/3867/version/1}, day = {16}, doi = {10.1038/npre.2009.3867.1}, issn = {1756-0357}, journal = {Nature Precedings}, keywords = {internet, library, literature, research, science, web20}, month = {October}, number = {713}, posted-at = {2009-11-06 12:12:53}, priority = {0}, publisher = {Nature Publishing Group}, title = {Ten Simple Rules for Searching and Organizing the Scientific Literature}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2009.3867.1}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6080536 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6080536 N2 - The exponentially increasing number of published papers (1.4 million per year by one estimate) makes it more and more difficult for us to manage the flood of scientific information. Each of us has acquired some protocol to find and organize journal articles and other references over the course of our careers. Most of those protocols are likely to have been formed by old routines or idleness rather than a structured approach to save time and frustration over the long run. Furthermore, with the Web 2.0 revolution, new ways of handling information are emerging (O’Reilly 2005). For example, traditional standalone tools for reference management like EndNote are being supplemented by centralized resources like RefWorks and social bookmarking sites as described subsequently. This fusion of personal and public information offers the promise of efficiency through better organization, which in turn leads to better science.How can seasoned scientists do better using these tools and those newer to the field start off in the right way? To start to answer that question, I present ten simple rules to master the search and organization of new literature. This is not meant to be comprehensive. It represents the experiences of a few and I welcome your thoughts, through comments to this article, on what you do to keep your references organized. IS - 713 JF - Nature Precedings SN - 1756-0357 TI - Ten Simple Rules for Searching and Organizing the Scientific Literature PB - Nature Publishing Group KW - internet KW - library KW - literature KW - research KW - science KW - web20 AU - Bauer, Denis PY - 2009/10/16/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2009.3867.1 ER -