Connotea Closing Doors

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Colter Bowman
Posted in Social Media

Connotea is an online reference management product. It allows for one click link saving for a user’s favorite articles, websites, references, and other web resources. Connotea is known as a social bookmarking site, which allows for viewing other user’s website collections for different and interesting content.

Connotea is uniquely designed for clinicians and scientists to save links of the reference material and articles they discover their research. Connotea’s design makes this quick and easy to not interrupt study. Since the service is entirely web based, users save articles using one click, and without the need to copy bibliographic information. Then, saved articles are then linked directly to the literature so you would not have to search for the information again. Furthermore, the reference lists can be easily shared with colleagues merely by sending the URL of your library.

Connotea is Closing

Unfortunately, earlier this week Connotea announced they would be shutting down their service. Connotea made the announcement in an email sent to users the week:

“Connotea, nature.com’s social bookmarking site, is closing on March 12th, 2013. We would like to thank you for your patience with and support for the site. To enable you to export your bookmarks to an alternative service, we are providing a tool to make the process as easy as possible. Connotea will be available until March 12th, 2013 and you are strongly encouraged to download your bookmarks before this date as your library will not be accessible afterwards.

The Connotea Export Tool will convert your bookmarks into two formats that should be compatible with most common browsers or reference management systems:

HTML – compatible with most browsers
RIS – compatible with most reference management systems.

You will be able to log in to the Connotea Export Tool by using your Connotea username and password and following the instructions on screen. Once you have downloaded your HTML and/or RIS file, please refer to the instructions for your browser and/or reference management system to import your bookmarks.”