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Quickly save and organize links to your references

Saving references in Conntoea is quick and easy. You do it by saving a link to a web page for the reference, whether that be the PubMed entry, the publisher’s PDF, or even an Amazon product page for a book. Connotea will, wherever possible, recognise the reference and automatically add in the bibliographic information for you.

In Connotea you assign keywords (or ’tags’) to your references. These can be anything you like, and you can use as many as you like, so there’s no more need to navigate complicated hierarchies of folders and categories. Connotea shows you all the tags you’ve ever used, so it’s easy to get back to a reference once you’ve saved it.

Easily share references with your colleagues

Sharing your entire library, or just a few references, with colleagues is easy. Because your Connotea library is held on the web, you can simply find the list of references you want your colleagues to see and then email them a link to the page.

References can be accessed from any computer

Because Connotea is a website, you can access your library from any computer with an internet connection. To access it from a different computer, simply go to www.connotea.org, log in, and your whole library will be there for you to browse or add to.

Save references with just one click

The Connotea browser button makes saving references very easy. The browser button does most of the work for you - click it from any web page and you’re instantly half way towards adding that page to your Connotea library. Add a few keywords to help keep yourself organized and you’re finished. Connotea looks up the web page and fetches the title, URL and any other information it can recognise, so you don’t need to re-type anything.

Easy to use. Nothing to download and nothing to learn. You can start creating your library today

Connotea is a web-based service, so you don’t have to download or install anything on your computer. You can do everything you need to on our website.

It is also very easy to learn - by reading this page you already know all you need to get started. If you need any more help, you might like to watch our introductory videos showing how to get started with Connotea. If you need further help, feel free to contact us.

Discover new leads

You can explore other Connotea users’ libraries just as easily as you can navigate your own. By saving your references on Connotea, you’re connecting your reading to that of other Connotea users who are working on the same things. You can then click on related tags and related users to discover new articles and links.

No cutting and pasting. Save references as you work without having to switch programs

Every time you want to save a reference to your library, simply click the Connotea browser button, and a form to add the reference to your library will pop up. Connotea will automatically fill in the title and URL for the page, and also add in bibliographic information like author and journal names for a growing list of websites. All you need to do is add some tags, a description or comment if you wish, and click a button to add the reference to your library. The pop-up will disappear, leaving you back where you started, with minimal interruption to your work.

References can be exported to, or imported from, desktop reference managers

If you have a library of references in a desktop reference management system that you would like to import into Connotea, happily you do not have to add each of them individually. You can import a batch of references in one go, using our import feature. If you can export your references from your reference manager in RIS format (which most desktop reference managers support), then you can upload them all to Connotea, choosing new tags or using the keywords already associated with each reference. Additionally, you can import your favourites from Firefox in one batch.

And, of course, Connotea allows you to export your library back to your desktop system at any time. You can also export part of your library, another user’s library, or a collection of references saved under a particular tag. In fact, any collection of references in Connotea can be easily exported.

References can be public, private, or shared with a selected group of colleagues

Every time you save a reference to your library, you have a choice of who can see that reference. By default, all links you save are public for anyone to see, but you can choose to make them private, or shared with just a select group of other Connotea users if you prefer. If you choose to make a reference private, you can see it in your library as normal, but no other Connotea user can see that you have it.

No storage limit

There is no limit to the number of references you can save to Connotea, or the number of tags you can use.

Save links to anything you find on the web

It’s not just for traditional references - Connotea allows you to save links to any page on the web. Because Connotea is specially designed for scientists and clinicians, there are extra features for some websites, including PubMed and many journals, which enable Connotea to recognise the page you are saving and automatically collect the bibliographic information for you. But even if Connotea doesn’t automatically import bibliographic information for all the websites you use, you can, of course, still save and share links to those pages.

How Connotea Works

 1. You find a reference - Connotea works the way you do: to add a reference to Connotea, simply find it on the web as you normally would. In fact, there’s no need for it to be a separate process, you can save your references to Connotea as you come across them. You can add any page on the web to your Connotea library. If you add an academic article, Connotea will automatically import all the bibliographic details for you.

 2. One click saves it on Connotea - When you sign up for Connotea, you will add a button to your browser that lets you easily add references. When you’re on a web page that you want to save a reference for, you simply click the ’Add to Connotea’ browser button. A window pops up allowing you to save it there and then, and there’s no need to break off from what you’re doing or fire up a separate program.

 3. Add your own keywords for easy retrieval - When you save a reference to Connotea, you add keywords (or ’tags’) to the reference to help you find it again.

You can choose any tags you like, and each reference can have as many tags as you like, so you will never have to decide between different categories or navigate complex folder structures. When you go back to your library, you will see a list of all the tags you have used, so you can easily find your reference again.

publisher-author

Nature Publishing Group

License

Free

Platform

All Plateforms

Money Back

n/a

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