LibGuides: Keeping Up and Keeping Track: Personal Information Management and: Keeping Found Things Found

Bookmarking versus Bookmarking...

Bookmarking: Keeping Found Things Found

A Social Bookmarking Overview

Bookmarks accessible anywhere
Social - searchable, traceable, sharable, sendable - and increasingly, conversational...
Bookmarklets and browser/mobile apps allow easy saving
Archivable
Social bookmarking sites can also have one-click subscription badges/posting buttons:
Wikipedia: Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking in Plain English (short video focussing on the Delicious service; about 3.5 minutes).

Bookmarklets - easy links you can add to your browser to add items that you find in your day-to-day web searching/reading to social bookmarking sites (and other sites, like Facebook, Pinterest, etc.) Most sites will have a tool page with the bookmarklets for various browsers. We've seen examples with Instapaper and Pocket.

What about smartphones and tablets? Many have built-in sharing functionality, as well as sharing apps you can download such as this bookmarklet app for Android phones and tablets. (It's a little more complicated on IOS devices, but many are included in the IOS open-in/share function.)

Social Bookmarking Sites

Social Bookmarking

Diigo - Web Highlighter and Sticky Notes, Online Bookmarking and Annotation, Personal Learning Network.

A social bookmarking tool that enables much more, including annotation, sharing, collaboration, image capturing/annotation, and web highlighting. Freemium options, but the free version is pretty good. Find my Diigo site at http://www.diigo.com/user/loenglish . Find Diigo Tools at https://www.diigo.com/tools and Diigo Help at http://help.diigo.com/. Also Diigo plans.

Alternatives

Pinboard

PearlTrees (https://www.pearltrees.com/)

Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc.(saving, starrng, etc. Gets unwieldy fast as there is no organizing except chronological)

Google Bookmarks

...and more.

Archiving the Web

Web Archiving - finding things no longer around; making sure stuff will be findable

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine

https://webrecorder.io/

http://www.webcitation.org/ Webcite

Perma.CC

(Instapaper and Pocket and Diigo can also keep text+images copies of webpages, although in some cases premium plans are required)

Academic Bookmarking (with a side of discovery)

Why are these different?

Library Databases and Journal/Publisher Accounts
This example is the ScienceDirect (Elsevier) publisher site (find a how-to link for SD here: link; it works similarly for most other databases/publishers), but many databases and journal publisher sites allow you to create accounts. These are excellent tools for discovery (keeping up) as well as archiving (keeping track). Functionality varies among providers (for example, some may send you journal tables of contents but not allow you to save articles in a collection or set up periodic what's new emails.)
See also: JournalTOCs
Reference Management Applications
More academic-research oriented than Diigo; works with many subscription databases provided through the WSU Libraries -- but can also be used for non-academic purposes. Note: I teach another HRS class on using Zotero, Alternatives include EndNote (WSU librarian Chelsea Leachman teaches EndNote classes) as well as Mendeley, Pages, and more. de EndNote (WSU librarian Chelsea Leachman teaches EndNote classes) as well as Mendeley, Pages, and more.
Durable Linking (aka Persistant links, Permalinks)
Many databases now include durable links in their results (i.e. Ebsco databases); also, all resources in the WSU library catalog, Search It, have durable links.
Resource: The WSU Libraries Proxy Bookmarklet
Use this to get access to articles, ebooks, and other resources that you have via a direct link when you are not at the WSU Libraries - this will allow you to log in with your WSU Network ID so that you are proxied and get direct access to the resource without having to go through the Libraries webpage. The link will provide bookmarklets that can be used (you can drag these bookmarklets to public computers - just be sure you are logged out and re-start the browser when you are finished - they time out without use so that's not a huge deal, but still...) and a screencast showing how to use it.

Libraries

Keeping Up and Keeping Track: Personal Information Management and

Bookmarking versus Bookmarking...

Bookmarking: Keeping Found Things Found

Bookmarking: Keeping Found Things Found

A Social Bookmarking Overview

Social Bookmarking Sites

Archiving the Web

Academic Bookmarking (with a side of discovery)