Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share and research papers. Users can upload / download papers, control the views, connect to and follow other users.
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Link: http://www.academia.edu
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BiomedExperts
An Elsevier platform for scientists to connect, find conferences and maintain CV and/or profile.
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- Telemedizinführer Deutschland: BioMedExperts – Connecting Brains
CiteULike
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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- Wikipedia: CiteULike
Link: http://www.citeulike.org
Citizen Cyberscience Centre (CCC)
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
DiagnosticSpeak
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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- OSU Extension: Diagnostic Speak;
- PR Newswire: 26 Countries Join Forces In Open Access Science Initiative
F1000Research
F1000 Research is a new fully Open Access publishing program across biology and medicine. It intends to address the major issues afflicting scientific publishing today.
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- Times Higher Education: Publish and let your peers be the judges
- nature newsblog: F1000 launches fast, open science publishing for biology and medicine
- Huffington Post: Transparency During Scientific Peer Review
Link: http://f1000research.com
FIGSHARE
Figshare is a database where all file formats can be published, including videos and datasets that are often demoted to the supplemental materials section in current publishing models.
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- TechCrunch: Science Data Sharing Site figshare Relaunches, Adds Features
- Nature Soapboxscience: Tool Tales: figshare & Open Science – Making Your Impact Remain
Link: http://figshare.com/
Fold it
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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- Scientific American: Foldit Gamers Solve Riddle of HIV Enzyme within 3 Weeks
- TIME Techland: Foldit Gamers Solve AIDS Puzzle That Baffled Scientists for a Decade
- Gizmodo: Galaxy Zoo erstellt galaktische Schriftart
Link: http://fold.it/portal/
frontiers
Frontiers is an online platform for the scientific community to publish open-access articles and network with colleagues. It aims to incorporate innovations and new technologies around peer-review, article and author impact metrics, social networking for researchers, and a whole ecosystem of open science tools.
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Nature: Nature Publishing Group and Frontiers form alliance to further open science
Fund Science
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
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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- The Guardian: Galaxy Zoo and the new dawn of citizen science
- Crowdcourcing.org: ZOONIVERSE DESIGNATES THIS MONTH ‘CITIZEN SCIENCE SEPTEMBER’
Link: http://www.galaxyzoo.org
iAMscientist
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
MENDELEY
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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- Wired: With Mendeley, research papers get scrobbled
- The New York Times: Mendeley Throws Open the Doors to Academic Data
- BBC News: Science enters the age of Web 2.0
Link: http://www.Mendeley.com
Method Space
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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- Resaerch Information: Methodspace.com
- Center for Innovation in Reseach and Teaching: Methodspace
myGrid
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
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
Nature Network
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
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/
Open Science Framework
A platform that fosters open discussions and conducts research about scientific practice. Furthermore it provides tools and infrastructure for open science activities which include instruments to improve the documentation of scientific workflows and the definition of the replication value of existing findings.
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youtube: How does Open Science Framework?
Open Science Projekt
A platform that provides open science projects, a wiki for the documentation of scientific workflows and a blog containing recent news about the open movement.
ResearchGate
An online publishing and networking platform that is dedicated to science and research. It enables interdisciplinary discussions, upload of publications and contains academic job listings.
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CrunchBase: ResearchGate
SCI-MATE
Platform allows fast publication of ideas and knowledge by providing ways for scientists to develop their thoughts and share technology to commercial or academic applications. Free membership to Research Scientists, Technology Managers, and Industry Representatives.
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Open Access News: Launch of Sci-mate
Link: http://www.sci-mate.org/
social science space
Social network that features blogs with the most current thinking from key players in social science, a forum for discussions, a resource centre with free videos, reports and slides that support these discussions, as well as funding and job opportunity notices.
SSRN
Scientific network that hosts several working paper series from numerous research institutions (e.g. INSEAD, MIT, University of California)
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Wikipedia: Social Science Research Network
Link: www.ssrn.com
VIVO
An open source semantic web application originally developed and implemented at Cornell. It aims to enable the discovery of research and scholarship across disciplines.
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- Elsevier: Northwestern University Joins VIVO Network with Elsevier’s SciVal Experts
- Scientific American: ScienceOnline2011 – interview with Kristi Holmes
Link: http://vivoweb.org