New online tools from Nature

OK a good friend and former colleague has induced me to get a Connotea account ... and I have to say that it's great. It's like a cross between Endnote and your bookmark page ... on steroids. If you don't know what Connotea is, it's a social bookmarking tool that lets you keep track of websites, files (such as online pdf files of scholarly articles) all while giving you the power of organizing these bookmarks with a single click of the button. One great feature is the ability of Connotea to extract all the info you need for any online publication simply by either adding a button to your browser, by pasting the doi info right on your homepage, or by adding features that appear within Pubmed itself. You can then keep the bookmarks private or you can share them with colleagues or anyone on the web. Now that I've been using it for a week - I'm sold.

But that's not all. (Damn, I sound like the homeshoping network)

Nature Networks Boston, the information space serving the academic community here in the Hub, has now expanded to become ... Nature Network (Boston is now a "local channel within Nature Network). You can sign up for either service by following the links posted above.