Yesterday I received an email from Scopus regarding 2collab, so I was pleasantly surprised to see a review of it on the Science Library Pad blog. 2collab is similar to other tagging sites such as del.icio.us and is another "scientific tagging" option in a world with Connotea, Zotero and CiteULike. Richard mentions, "most people doing academic work are not aware of such services, and Elsevier is of course well-positioned to reach huge numbers of users in the course of their daily interactions with its content." I believe this gives the librarian the opportunity to look at this product as well as others to familiarize themselves about it and his mini review is the perfect start.

Speaking of tagging, I wonder how many medical libraries offer tagging either through del.icio.us or something else to their users and how they do it. For example the Health Sciences Library at Stony Brook has their del.icio.us page set up for their users (with the important link back to the library web page) and they list it on their website under Research Assistance. I think Stony Brook's use of del.icio.us is a natural extension of web subject guides. UCDHSC Anschutz Medical Campus offers introductory classes on CiteULike and EndNote.

I am just wondering how many are using it and what sort results (statistical, anecdotal, or other) are they seeing. Are they noticing more people using it? How are well attended are the classes?
Just curious.