AcademiaConnect.org

http://academiaconnect.org/
social netwotking site

Academici

http://www.academici.com/
social networking site

Libraries and Facebook

http://clt.lse.ac.uk/Projects/Case_Study_Five_report.pdf
LASSIE: Libraries and Social Software in Education
Case Study 5:Libraries and Facebook
Jane Secker
This case study explores the use of the social networking site Facebook (www.facebook.com) as a
tool for libraries and librarians. The case study was launched some way into the project following the
growth and popularity of this social networking site. Many librarians have now joined Facebook [...]

Deciphering Social Networks

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ecar_so/ers/ers0806/rs/ERS0806.pdf

ECAR/Burton Study on Social Networks
Deciphering Social Networks
Mike Gotta, 46 pages
Adoption and usage data regarding social networking trends by consumers has convinced many business and IT leadership teams that social network sites, and their technological underpinnings, can be viewed as viable usage models to satisfy the communication, information sharing, and collaboration [...]

Research Sharing Gets New Tools and Goes Trendy

http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=50584
by Paula J. Hane
Posted On September 4, 2008

Last fall I wrote about several social networking/collaboration projects from Elsevier—2collab and Scirus Topic Pages (http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=40102). The initiatives were designed to support academic library communities and their researchers with advanced “Research 2.0″ tools. The resources created social spaces in which researchers [...]

Social Software in Libraries

http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/spec304web.pdf

SPEC Kit 304 Published by ARL
Washington DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published Social Software in Libraries, SPEC Kit 304, which provides an overview of ARL libraries’ implementation of software that people use to connect with one another online.
In the last few years, the use of social software has grown enormously. [...]

Ma.gnolia goes open source

Ma.gnolia, one of the most popular second tier social bookmarking services on the web, announced today at the Gnomedex conference in Seattle that the company has thrown itself to the mercy of the development community and is going to make its code available in open source.
source: Readwriteweb

TES Connect

http://www.tes.co.uk/community.aspx
social networking site for education

Springer partners with CiteULike for reference management services

STM publisher Springer has announced that SpringerLink has partnered with CiteULike, the social bookmarking website for researchers. SpringerLink is claimed to be one of the world’s largest scientific databases. The deal seeks to ensure that researchers using SpringerLink will benefit from reference management services.

Mendeley

http://www.mendeley.com
Mendeley is a free social software for managing and sharing research papers – and it’s also a Web 2.0 site for discovering research trends and connecting to like-minded academics. We’ve just launched into public beta.
http://www.mendeley.com

There is more detailed background info on our blog
(http://www.mendeley.com/blog).