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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Alexandria (UniSG)
Publishing platform and directory for publications of USG under OA principles such as general provisions, obligations and rights of researchers.
arXiv
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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- nature newsblog: ArXiv’s funding future boosted by hedge-fund charity
- Wikipedia: arXiv
Link: http://www.arxiv.org
ATLAS TWiki Portal
Open access platform that publishes results of the CERN lab. Only papers in Physics are accessible without login and collaborative tools are accessible only with a CERN account.
Banyan
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/
BioMed Central
Owned by Springer Science+ Business Media, and hosting the SpringerOpen platform, BioMed Central is an STM (Science, Technology and Medicine) publisher of 252 open access, online, peer-reviewed journals. Original research articles published by BioMed Central are made freely and permanently accessible online, whereby an article-processing fee to cover the cost of the publication process is charged. Authors publish under Creative Commons Attribution License.
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Open Repository: BioMed Central
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
CORE
CORE is a pilot system that harvests both content and metadata from 61 British repositories and makes them accessible through three applications – Web portal, Mobile application, Plugin.
CreativeCommons (CC)
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
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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- crosstech: DataCite supporting content negotiation
- Ariadne: DataCite UK User Group Meeting
Link: http://www.datacite.org
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
Directory of Open Access Journals
The Directory aims to be comprehensive and to cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content.
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- Wikipedia: Directory of Open Access Journals
- Open Access News: Review of DOAJ
Link: http://www.doaj.org
Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC)
Based on PubMed Central (PMC), developed at the NCBI in the USA and as part of a network of PMC International (PMCI) repositories, Europe PMC offers free access to biomedical literature resources including about 28 Million PubMed abstracts, about 2.6 million Europe PMC full text articles and over 4 million Patent abstracts.
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Wellcome Trust: Europe PubMed Central (Europe PMC)
Link: http://europepmc.org/
European Case Clearing House
ecch is a non-profit organization that promotes and facilitates case study based learning in management education and development of many business schools.
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- Wikipedia: European Case Clearing House
EXPERIMENT
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.
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
Fidus Writer
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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- wired academic: Fidus Writer is a collaborative writing tool custom-built for academia
- Making the Web awesome: Fidus Writer: foxy CSS Regions spotted in the wild
Link: http://fiduswriter.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
HAL – Hyper Articles en ligne
HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive of scientific research papers from private or public teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, published or not.
Link: http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/index.php?langue=en&halsid=1vo52cjgapvm1m8djpa6pnjds0