Have started to investigate CitULike, which is likened to "Everyone's Library". I don't normally associate the words "social" and "serious" together, but CitULike is both. It's a free service to help you to store, organise and share the scholarly papers you are reading. When you see a paper on the web that interests you, you can click one button and have it added to your personal library. You can 'tag' articles to file them together.
The sharing comes about by the ability to join groups, or even form your own. I joined a group called "Librarians" and found a very diverse range of articles posted by other members. Many of the articles didn't seem related to librarianship in any way! For example,
"Characterization of axial and proximal histidine mutations of the decaheme cytochrome MtrA from Shewanella sp. str. ANA-3: Implications for the electron transport mechanism" from the Journal of Bacteriology (24 August 2012).
Possibly a bit too scholarly for me!
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