BibSonomy.org - Sharing Bookmarks and Bibliographies

Bibsonomy is making a bid in the social bookmarking arena. Already a very crowded market, but what's another site, if not another choice for you to indulge in.

As with other bookmarking sites BibSonomy offers a bookmarklet which you can easily drop into your toolbar so you can bookmark pages as you surf the web. They also employ tags for organization—check out the tag cloud on right side of the homepage. Bookmarks can be made public, private or shared only amongst friends. So far, pretty similar to every other bookmarking site, right? But Bibsonomy also allows for the bookmarking of publications. Users can input and export Bibtex, Endnote, SWRC, DocBook and other bibliographic information directly from the site. Another interesting feature is the relations link which displays the existing relations within Bibsonomy's network; for instance, grouped under the headline computer, you'll find linux and Mac. Additionally, public bookmarks may be copied directly to your list (just hit copy), and you may also pick BibTex entries and download them as either BibTex or Endnote (once they're picked, they'll be sent to your basket, where you can choose to download them all, or a just a select few). While perhaps more involved than other sites, Bibsonomy is ideal for students especially during those mid and end of term crunches when papers, citations and all must be cranked out with alarming velocity. Bibsonomy's free for everyone.