As an open access platform that allows free research on e-print articles in sciences ArXiv is accessible to all. Registered users can upload their work and have access to email addresses of other ArXiv users.
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Link: http://www.arxiv.org
Banyan is a platform for researchers to collaborate, share, & publish their work: Collaborate using discussions tools, publish using a Latex editor and share research through secure public or private distributed research repositories. See also Banyan Public Profiles.
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Nooga.com: Gig Tank winners secure funding, plan move to Chattanooga.
Link: http://blog.banyan.co/introducing-banyan-public-profiles/
CiteULike is a literature maintenance and article research or review tool. Only already online papers are able to be posted by users and downloadable under posting conditions.
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Link: http://www.citeulike.org
The Citizen Cyberscience Centre follows the aim to develop participatory projects with own participatory websites suggested by scientists. Special aim is to help scientists in developing areas.
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unitar: UNITAR, UNIGE and CERN Collaborate on a Citizen Cyberscience Centre
As a nonprofit organization CreativeCommons enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools.
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Wikipedia: CreativeCommons
DataCite consists of different services to find, access and reuse data. Organisations have to register first for an account with a DataCite Member to create datasets.
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Link: http://www.datacite.org
DiagnosticSpeak forum provides a single vehicle through which the worldwide scientific community of infectious disease investigators may gather to discuss up-to-date issues.
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Experiment gathers innovative research projects that need funding. Users can register for free to present their own projects that need funding. Formerly known as “MICRORYZA”.
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The Daily of the University of Washington: Microryza connects researchers to the public.
Fidus Writer is an online collaborative editor especially made for academics who need to use citations and/or formulas. The editor focuses on the content rather than the layout, so that with the same text, you can later on publish it in multiple ways.
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Link: http://fiduswriter.com
Foldit functions as a computer game enabling the user to contribute to important scientific research. The website also describes the science behind Foldit and how users can help.
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Link: http://fold.it/portal/
Fund Science is an ecosystem for scientists and the public for collaboration on shaping future research projects. Open source methodology through simple collaboration tools is applied.
Galaxy Zoo is a project website created at the Citizen Cyberscience Centre. Galaxy Zoo is cataloguing millions of astronomical images taken by people all over the world.
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Link: http://www.galaxyzoo.org
iAMscientist is a global community of science, technology and medical researchers to accelerate research, support career development and helps to find crowd funding in science.
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VentureBeat: Iamscientist brings crowdfunding to scientific research
iversity has the goal to move beyond the existing teaching formats to enable wholly new forms of online teaching and learning. In order to develop open courses iversity calls upon individual instructors, universities and knowledge-based companies to join the effort to democratize education.
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Link: https://iversity.org
LIBRE is a free, multidisciplinary research platform that enables an innovative peer review process arranged and handled by authors themselves. It will be officially launched in October 2013. Registration is possible though.
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London School of Economics and Political Science. BLOG: New forms of open peer review will allow academics to separate scholarly evaluation from academic journals.
A creative playground that takes over-looked technology and unleashes a crowd of multi-disciplined people to discover new applications.
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Link: http://www.marblar.com/
Mendeley is a research management tool with a free software that generates citations and bibliographies, allows to upload own papers online, connect and collaborate with other users.
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Link: http://www.Mendeley.com
Online platform on research methodology sponsored by SAGE Publishing. Users can upload texts, videos etc., debate topics, form groups, get free access to selected journals.
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Here users can build groups to share data, called workflows. It enables users to share and execute digital data items.
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This website offers a range of highly elaborated tools for scientists to build groups and manage workflows e.g. in e-Labs or with the Taverna Workflow Management System; open source.
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International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications archive: “The myGrid ontology: bioinformatics service discovery” published September 2007, Volume 3 (2): 303-324
doi 10.1504/IJBRA.2007.015005
Link: http://www.mygrid.org.uk
MyScienceWork connects scientists from multidisciplinary origins to support the dissemination of scientific knowledge. Users can communicate, develop networks, share, collaborate, upload.
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Le Parisien: Elle crée un réseau européen pour les chercheurs
A networking website offering not only communication via discussion and comments worldwide and locally but offers a tool called Workbench where user can collate online scientific tools.
Neo4j is an open-source, high-performance, enterprise-grade NOSQL transactional property graph database. For connected data operations, Neo4j runs a thousand times faster than relational databases.
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Open Tree Of Life: Connecting millions of data points in a graph database
Link: http://www.neo4j.org/
An open community that promotes the creation and use of open knowledge and provides projects from various disciplines, groups and tools to support knowledge sharing.
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PLOS Biology: The Open Knowledge Foundation: Open Data Means Better Science
Link: http://www.okfn.org
This platform offers cloud services for the scientific community by providing petabyte-scale cloud resources that enhance the analyzing, managing, and sharing of data.
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Open Cloud Consortium: Open Science Data Cloud