Help topic: Social bookmarking

Social bookmarking

The 'Social bookmarking' feature provides users with an easy way to save links they want to remember or share with colleagues. Depending on which social bookmarking or networking site you use, the bookmarks can be saved either:

- so that they can be shared only within a particular community or group

- or so that they are available to all members of a particular network

The services Cambridge currently supports include: Del.icio.us, Connotea, Bibsonomy, Furl, Digg, Reddit and Facebook.

You can create bookmarks to:

- particular journals by going to the journal homepage

- particular issues by going to the table of contents page

- individual articles by going to the article abstract or the HTML version of the article

Journal homepage or table of contents

To save a bookmark to a particular journal or issue, go to the journal's homepage or the relevant table of contents. On the right-hand side of the page you will see a 'Social bookmarking' menu listing a number of different social bookmarking and networking sites. If you have already registered with one of these sites, all you need to do is click on the link of the site you belong to and the journal will automatically be bookmarked to that site. If you are not already logged into the site, it will ask you to do so before your bookmark is uploaded.

Article abstract or HTML

You can save a bookmark to a particular article by going to the article's abstract or, if you have access to the full text of the journal and it is available in HTML, by going to the HTML version. In either case, you will see a link to 'Social bookmarking' at the top of the page. Click on this link to bring up the list of social bookmarking and networking sites for you to choose from.