Citation Management + Current Awareness = Bibliogo
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By Leah Pellegrino

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Information professionals and researchers know the value of a good citation and the ability to share it with others. The trick has always been how to do so easily and without having to purchase separate (and often expensive) software to collect and organise citations, and keeping up with new items being published. Enter Bibliogo!

What’s Bibliogo? It’s a web-based journal article app from Reprints Desk, Inc. that is designed for people and companies involved in the fields of research, bioinformatics, engineering, information management and regulatory fields. It’s a combination of citation management, RSS readers and document ordering all rolled into one product.

The app combines the ability to save, manage and share bibliographic references along with current awareness services and the ability to order documents.

Bibliogo has some really cool features that make it different from other products. You can install a “Bookmarklet” into your browser’s bookmark bar (in any non-Internet Explorer browser) or if you’re using Internet Explorer, you right-click on the link provided and add it to your “Favorites”. The “Send to Bibliogo” bookmarklet lets you search PubMed or other databases and websites (using their search functionality) and send citations directly to a bibliography in your Bibliogo account. No more entering in the citation information yourself; it’s all done seamlessly.

Once you’ve got those citations saved, it’s easy to copy them into more than one bibliography and you can export them as well. Plus, you can find articles within bibliographies by using the tags you’ve assigned to articles. So, you can always find that great citation when you need to.

Since it’s a “mashup”, Bibliogo features integrated current awareness capabilities for literature searches and journal table of contents updates via RSS feeds that send email alerts. There’s also a “recommendation engine” that helps you identify which of your existing bibliographies might be a good place for that new citation you just found. Setting up or canceling these alerts and RSS feeds is easy. also In addition there’s an RSS publishing engine that allows users to broadcast individual bibliographies or share bibliographies to other websites, news readers, portals, intranets, SharePoint and Microsoft Outlook to name a few. So you can really share your research with others.

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