It seems more and more people are using the social bookmarks and tagging their own personal collection of online things, but the medical and scientific community seems to have a hard time wrapping their minds around use of tagging within their work. However, we are starting the medical and scientific community using social bookmarks as another tool in their research.

Recently Nature announced the release of Connotea, (Nature's own social bookmarking service to scientists) as a way to organize references, share them with others and discover new leads. Well, Timo Hannay in his post, Linking Up Research Papers Using Tags, describes how one can using tagging in institutional repositories with a newly released code that works with EPrints. The University of Southampton's Electronics and Computer Science Department has now put this code on their institutional repository.

As Hannay notes, one of the problems with institutional repositories is that the content can be difficult to locate. Using social bookmarks offers one method finding and retrieving relevant material.