The OSSP is a platform where academic researchers from around the world collaborate to propose and conduct basic research projects with the support of funding provided by the broader online community.
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Slideshare: The OSSP – Research Microfinance
This project aims to produce and publish the first online tree of all 1.8 million named species. Furthermore it enables the dynamic development, test and improvement of data synthesis methods by offering tools for collaboration between computational and empirical biologists.
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Nature: Data deposition: Missing data mean holes in tree of life (by B. Drew)
OpenAIRE aims to set up support structures for researchers, establish and operate an electronic infrastructure for handling published articles and work with different communities to explore the framework conditions for research publications.
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open access: OpenAIRE
Link: https://www.openaire.eu
Wiki platform for biology and biological engineering that enables open exchange, sharing of information and know-how. A directory of labs and groups helps to find collaborators.
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The Journal of Clinical Investigation: Science rides the online wave
openbiomed.info: Does Open WetWare go anywhere from here?
Wikipedia: OpenWetWare
A platform for peer reviewing of scholarly communications that enables users to make works visible to scholarly search engines and track the impact and reuse of shared online data.
A platform that provides a service to help consumers benefit from their passions, interests and influence particularly with respect to the services they get from companies; and for brands and agencies to better identify effective and interested word-of-mouth advocates.
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Link: http://www.peerindex.com
A peer-reviewed academic journal that offers Open Access publishing of scholarly articles by providing two publications serving the Biological and Medical sciences. Authors pay for a lifetime membership, which gives them the ability to publish their articles for free.
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Link: http://peerj.com/
PersonalGenomes.org is a repository of participants‘ data who volunteered to publicly share their DNA sequence and other personal information for research and education.
A science funding platform where multidisciplinary research projects can be funded and early access to news about progress and findings is provided.
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Link: http://www.petridish.org
The Public Knowledge Project is dedicated to improving the scholarly and public quality of research. It provides the leading open source software for journal and conference management and publishing.
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Link: http://pkp.sfu.ca
PLoS Medicine is basically a journal, where article submission is possible under Creative Common licenses.
Nonprofit publishing venture mainly focused on natural sciences and medicine that provides scientists with high-profile journals in which to publish their work.
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Link: http://www.plos.org/
A tool to stur scientific progress that helps to organize and find scientific papers quickly. ReadCube is backed by Digital Science, a division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd and a sister company of Nature Publishing Group.
Link: http://www.readcube.com/
A solution to the author ambiguity problem within the scholarly research community: Each member is assigned a unique identifier to enable researchers to manage their publication lists, track their times cited counts and h-index, identify potential collaborators and avoid author misidentification.
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RSC Advancing the Chemical Sciences: End of the road for h-index rankings
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
RocketHub works as a foundation for a new creative economy, offering crowd funding services for creatives, scientists as wells as for donators.
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rOpenSci aims to create packages that allow access to data repositories through the R statistical programming environment that is already a familiar part of the workflow of many scientists.
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ProgrammableWeb: PW Interview: Karthik Ram, rOpenSci, Wrapping all science APIs
Link: http://www.ropensci.org/
Professional network of medical doctors and students; forums enable discussions and peer-guidance.
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/
ScienceGist is a repository for scientific papers. Uploads are possible as registered member or unregistered: then the upload will be published by „anonymous“. Aim is to simplifiy very complex concepts into clear and concise ideas and bridge the science gap.
Link: http://sciencegist.com
Sciencestarter is the german crowdfunding platform, founded in autumn 2012 by Stifterverband der Deutschen Wissenschaft. The platform wants to help financing scientific projects by enthusiastic sponsors.
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This platform aims to foster ongoing citizen engagement with science and technology by providing a micro-donation model that enables the funding of research projects from different disciplines.
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EurekAlert: SciFlies to attract citizen donors, promote research
Link: http://sciflies.org/
SciStarter encourages people to learn about, participate in, and contribute to science through both informal recreational activities and formal research efforts.
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AAAS: SciStarter helps citizen scientists discover new projects
An open online teaching/learning portal combining high quality educational articles authored by editors at NPG with technology-based community features to fuel a global exchange of scientific insights, teaching practices, and study resources. Scitable currently contains articles in the field of genetics, and is intended for college undergraduate faculty and students.
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A platform that provides solutions for institutions performing research. Whether an institution is conducting research or funding, SciVal makes data about performance, planning and funding more visible and accessible.
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Research Trends: Layered assessment: Using SciVal Strata to examine research performance