CiteULike

{{Short description|Reference management website (2004–2019)}}

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| current_status = Offline since {{End date and age|2019|03|28}}{{cite web | title=CiteULike home page | url=http://www.citeulike.org/ | url-status=usurped | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328231005/http://www.citeulike.org/ | archive-date=2019-03-28}} The next day's archive of this web page shows the web page was down.

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CiteULike was a web service which allowed users to save and share citations to academic papers.{{cite web | url=https://imechanica.org/node/97 | title=CiteULike: Your online library of scientific literature, and more... | last=Li | first=Teng | date=8 September 2006 | website=iMechanica | url-status=live | access-date=5 November 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070505023750/https://imechanica.org/node/97 | archive-date=5 May 2007}} Based on the principle of social bookmarking, the site worked to promote and to develop the sharing of scientific references amongst researchers. In the same way that it is possible to catalog web pages (with Furl and delicious) or photographs (with Flickr), scientists could share citation information using CiteULike.{{cite journal | last1=Zlatić | first1=Vinko | last2=Ghoshal | first2=Gourab | last3=Caldarelli | first3=Guido | title=Hypergraph topological quantities for tagged social networks | journal=Physical Review E | volume=80 | issue=3 | article-number=036118 | date=25 September 2009 | page=036118 | issn=1539-3755 | pmid=19905191 | doi=10.1103/PhysRevE.80.036118 | arxiv=0905.0976 | bibcode=2009PhRvE..80c6118Z | s2cid=90024}}{{Cite journal | last1=Good | first1=B. M. | last2=Tennis | first2=J. T. | last3=Wilkinson | first3=M. D. | title=Social tagging in the life sciences: Characterizing a new metadata resource for bioinformatics | doi=10.1186/1471-2105-10-313 | journal=BMC Bioinformatics | volume=10 | pages=313 | year=2009 | pmid=19781082 | pmc=2760536 | doi-access=free}}{{Cite journal | first1=Duncan | last1=Hull | first2=Steve R. | last2=Pettifer | first3=Douglas B. | last3=Kell | authorlink3=Douglas Kell | authorlink2=Steve Pettifer | editor1-last=McEntyre | editor1-first=Johanna | title=Defrosting the digital library: Bibliographic tools for the next generation web | journal=PLOS Computational Biology | volume=4 | issue=10 | article-number=e1000204 | date=October 2008 | pages=e1000204 | issn=1553-734X | pmid=18974831 | pmc=2568856 | doi=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000204 | bibcode=2008PLSCB...4E0204H | doi-access=free}} {{open access}} Richard Cameron developed CiteULike in November 2004 and in 2006 Oversity Ltd. was established to develop and support CiteULike.{{cite web | website=CiteULike | title=Frequently Asked Questions | at=Who is behind CiteULike? | url=http://www.citeulike.org/faq/faq.adp#who | url-status=usurped | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150206001134/http://www.citeulike.org/faq/faq.adp#who | archive-date=2015-02-06}} In February 2019, CiteULike announced that it would be ceasing operations as of March 30, 2019.{{cite web | last=Gallagher | first=Fergus | date=19 February 2019 | title=CiteULike is closing down | website=CiteULike | url=http://www.citeulike.org/news | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190310145602/http://www.citeulike.org/news | url-status=usurped | archive-date=10 March 2019 | access-date=2 May 2019}}

When browsing issues of research journals, small scripts stored in bookmarks (bookmarklets) allowed one to import articles from repositories like PubMed, and CiteULike supported many more. Then the system attempted to determine the article metadata (title, authors, journal name, etc.) automatically. Users could organize their libraries with freely chosen tags and this produces a folksonomy of academic interests.{{cite magazine | last1=Emamy | first1=Kevin | last2=Cameron | first2=Richard | date=30 April 2007 | title=CiteULike: A researcher's social bookmarking service | magazine=Ariadne | number=51 | issn=1361-3200 | oclc=35952134 | publisher=UKOLN | url=http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue51/emamy-cameron/ | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070518043633/http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue51/emamy-cameron/ | archive-date=2007-05-18}}