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Delicious.

Delicious is a social book marking site. It is a web site that allows you to save unlimited web pages which you may find useful by tagging appropriate words related to the content and here fore organizing a website mini database. It has been extremely advantageous to my project and its literature. Initially, I was struggling to develop my literature review with the limited documents I had researched to support my work. However, delicious allowed me to develop this research in an easy and constructive manner. It also provides the ability to create a network of people with similar interests, therefore aiding your research with fresh documents and new information.

Before I was introduced to Delicious I would save web pages I found useful to my tool bar under ‘Favorites’. This I found time consuming having to scan through all the web pages saved before finally finding the one I wanted. The tag system in Delicious eliminates this problem by typing a word which relates to the document content then directing me straight to the document of interest I am looking for.

Unlike that of a ‘Favorites’ tool, Delicious is a online database so can be accessed from any computer I am working on. This is extremely useful especially whilst undergoing a research project which may suggest use of a library amongst other public places.

The icon labeled ‘browse bookmarks’ allows me to easily refer back to past read documents that I could make possible use of in the future. This was apparent whilst writing up my the end of my literature review and discovering I had missed some vital information out. It took no longer than one minute to type ‘student culture drama’ as a tag and the right document was at hand.

I never believed that I would make use of a program like Delicious but whilst working on my research project I have found it thoroughly beneficial and a credit to my work.