Nature Publishing has released software that enables institutional repositories running EPrints to integrate with the social bookmarking services Connotea and del.icio.us.
Nature Publishing has released software that enables institutional repositories running EPrints to integrate with the social bookmarking services Connotea and del.icio.us.
This allows content within institutional repositories to be bookmarked, tagged and linked to related content.
The work behind this development was funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) as part of their Pals Metadata and Interoperability Projects 2 programme.
Once installed in a repository, the software will enable users to bookmark documents in that repository using their Connotea or del.icio.us account, assigning their own tags and without leaving the web page.
They also can see what tags have already been assigned to the document they are viewing in the repository and click on links to related content, either within the same repository or elsewhere on the Web.
If bookmarked in Connotea, the bibliographic metadata for the institutional repository item can be automatically imported.
Connotea already does this for items bookmarked from several other sources, including Nature, PubMed, Science, Blackwell Synergy, Wiley Interscience and Amazon.
Recognising the importance of the content within institutional repositories, this new functionality will allow such content to be integrated and linked with the wider scientific literature.
