SciTechNet(sm): Science and Technology Social Networking Services

Scholarly Networking / Dr Laura James / Arcadia Seminar / April 21 2009

2009-06-26T10:34:00.005-05:00

Arcadia Seminar: Scholarly Networking

Speaker: Dr Laura James / Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies (CARET) / University of Cambridge

Location: Wolfson College.

Date and Time: Tuesday / 21 April 2009 / 18:00-19:15

The university experience, whether teaching, learning or researching, has always been built around interactions between people, and the network of people one meets. CARET is investigating many aspects of scholarly networking, including supporting and enhancing these real world connections online, and the ways in which academic networking differs from social networking (whilst drawing on the viral and compelling nature of consumer social tools).

Dr James will present various parts of this work including design personas drawn from user research into the ways that academics at all levels communicate today, which are informing user-centric design of scholarly networking concepts. In addition, she will touch upon business models for sustainability of academic networking systems and the different organisations who might host them.

About The Speaker

Dr Laura James manages people, projects and operations at the Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies at the University of Cambridge, and leads the CARET projects about scholarly networking. Her background is in high tech research and development, and she has worked at AT&T Labs in the US and UK , designing and prototyping cutting edge internet-connected wireless devices and systems.

Dr James was the first employee at AlertMe.com (a consumer electronics company, producing connected home technology) and lead the engineering design team there through from idea to shipping product. She holds Masters and PhD degrees in Engineering from the University of Cambridge. Dr James was a NESTA Crucible fellow in 2007, and is an alumnus of the Royal Academy of Engineering Leadership Award and Executive Engineer programmes.

Podcast Available

Source

[http://arcadiaproject.lib.cam.ac.uk/events/index.php#news100]

Related

CARET’s Thoughts On Social Networking

[http://www.caret.cam.ac.uk/page/carets-thoughts-on-social-networking]

JISC Academic Networking Project

[http://www.caret.cam.ac.uk/page/jisc-academic-networking]

JISC Academic Networking Project Blog

[http://academic-networking.blogspot.com/]

Lalisio - The International Knowledge Network

2008-08-21T17:25:00.009-05:00

Lalisio - The international knowledge network enables students and scholars worldwide to find, share and connect knowledge.

[http://www.lalisio.com/]

Vision

Our vision is to empower students, scholars, and professionals in intelligent knowledge networks to share knowledge and make it globally visible, accessible, and ever expanding.

Background of Lalisio

The amount of knowledge increases every day, and with it the time and effort students, scholars, and professionals need to spend to find helpful materials or knowledgeable people with whom they can share, discuss, study, or research common points of interest. Due to the ever increasing amount of information, a great deal of valuable knowledge gets covered today and is ultimately lost.

For this reason, Lalisio offers easy ways to find, share, and connect knowledge worldwide making it more accessible and supporting research and education worldwide. Lalisio connects knowledge-seeking people from around the world with a unique search engine for all relevant data sources, i.e. books, Open Access articles, and publications in renowned journals. Lalisio puts a particular focus on a user-friendly design of its services and allows for a high degree of adaptability of its services to individual user needs. Lalisio is designing its services so that users are able to access them with personal computers as well as mobile devices – no matter whether they are at home, in a library, in a classroom, or in the office – they can use Lalisio to find answers to all kinds of questions. Lalisio integrates information, interaction, and information management, and is about community, content plus the valuable combination of both.

[http://www.lalisio.com/about/index.html]

Related

"Lalisio Literature" is a search engine designed to help you find the right literature for your research, studies, teaching and leisure.

[http://literature.lalisio.com/]

For this purpose, we cooperate with major providers of international literature databases: Top booksellers such as Amazon, Abebooks and Powell's are among our partners as well as open access repositories such as arXiv and PubMed Central. Due to the integration of open access repositories our users can find and access cutting-edge articles mostly free of charge. Based on our analyses of content from numerous sources, we develop helpful search suggestions and relevance indicators for your literature search and help you quickly identify the literature you really want.

[http://literature.lalisio.com/about.html]

See Also

Science 2.0 Gains Another Search Engine: Q-Sensei From Lalisio / Barbara Quint NewsBreaks for Monday/ August 21, 2008

[http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=50370]

Project Bamboo

2008-08-16T20:39:00.019-05:00

Bamboo is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, and inter-organizational effort that brings together researchers in arts and humanities, computer scientists, information scientists, librarians, and campus information technologists to tackle the question: How can we advance arts and humanities research through the development of shared technology services?

Project Bamboo launched in April 2008 with the first workshop at Berkeley. We held three additional instances of Workshop One (Chicago, Paris, and Princeton), and in the process met with over 360 arts and humanities faculty, computer scientists, librarians, information technologists, and others from over 90 colleges, universities, and private and public organizations who were interested in advancing arts and humanities research through shared technologies. Now the project is moving into its next stage -- analysis -- and we need your help. [snip]

Bamboo is an international effort that includes liberal arts colleges, community colleges, research universities, national consortia, disciplinary societies, industry and other organizations that are concerned with advancing the humanities through the development of shared digital technologies. If we move toward a shared services model, any faculty member, scholar, or researcher can use and reuse content, resources, and applications no matter where they reside, what their particular field of interest is, or what support may be available to them. Our goal is to better enable and foster academic innovation through sharing and collaboration.

Project Bamboo is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

[http://projectbamboo.org/]

Proposal

[http://projectbamboo.org/files/docs/bamboo_proposal.pdf]

Workshops

[http://projectbamboo.org/workshops]

Planning Wiki

[http://wiki.projectbamboo.org/display/BPUB/Home]

News and Events

[http://projectbamboo.org/news]

Facebook Group

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18610674668]

Twine

[http://www.twine.com/twine/1164fg7bp-1vj8/project-bamboo]

Twitter

[http://twitter.com/projectbamboo]

Join Us

[http://projectbamboo.org/join-us]

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS

Janet Broughton, Dean of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
Gregory A. Jackson, Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, University of Chicago

LEADERSHIP COUNCIL

Anthony Cascardi, Director, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, and Professor of Comparative Literature, Rhetoric, and Spanish, University of California, Berkeley

James Chandler, Director, Franke Institute for the Humanities, and Professor of English Language and Literature, Committees on the History of Culture, Cinema and Media Studies, and Interdisciplinary Studies, and the College, University of Chicago

Charles Faulhaber, Director, Bancroft Library, and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, University of California, Berkeley

Ian Foster, Director, Computation Institute, and Professor of Computer Science and the College, University of Chicago, and Associate Division Director of Mathematics and ComputerScience, Argonne National Laboratory

Judith Nadler, Director and University Librarian, The University of Chicago Library, University of Chicago

Martha Roth, Dean of the Division of the Humanities and Professor of Assyriology, Oriental Institute, Dept. of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the College, University of Chicago

Stuart Russell, Professor and Chair, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
Shelton Waggener, Associate Vice Chancellor and Chief Information Officer, University of California, Berkeley

PROGRAM DIRECTORS

David A. Greenbaum, Director of Data Services, Information Services and Technology, University of California, Berkeley
Chad J. Kainz, Senior Director for Academic Technologies, Networking Services & Information Technologies, University of Chicago

[http://projectbamboo.org/about-us]

Ologeez!: Literature Search & Networking for Academics

2008-08-13T18:33:00.018-05:00

Ologeez (ah-lo-geez)

From the Greek root Ology, it refers to every branch of learning.Connect, share, and learn from colleagues through papers, networked groups, collaborative tools and more.

[http://ologeez.stanford.edu/]

Peer-review literature search, recommendation engine and group collaboration for academics and industry professionals.

Developed by a Stanford graduate student to help find more relevant papers for his Ph.D. research in genetics. Tied into the science literature database, PubMed, and through user contributed peer-reviewed papers, it makes finding and discussing papers a lot easier. Other academic and industry databases to follow.

After developing the literature part, it was a natural progression to make a network for those using the site. Groups can be created to share publications, protocols, AJAX calendars, and create forum discussions. Local and University seminars and conferences can be uploaded and searched based on your academic interests.

[http://www.crunchbase.com/company/ologeez]

WikiGroups

[http://ologeez.stanford.edu/index.php?option=wikigroups&task=showcat&Itemid=53]

Papers

[http://ologeez.stanford.edu/index.php?option=ologeez&act=paper&show=all&mid=0&Itemid=80]

Tags

[http://ologeez.stanford.edu/index.php?option=ologeez&act=paper&task=showTag&Itemid=29]

Ologeez Search for your browser

[http://ologeez.stanford.edu/]

Tours

[http://ologeez.stanford.edu/index.php?option=about&ta=tour&Itemid=82]

Blog

[http://ologeez.stanford.edu/Blog/]

Facebook Page

[http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ologeez-Literature-Search-Networking-for-Academics/40191106744]

See Also

[http://www.killerstartups.com/Web20/ologeez-stanford-edu-a-collective-scholorly-site]

Laboratree: Research Management System

2008-08-13T17:42:00.011-05:00

Welcome to Laboratree. Laboratree is being developed in the Indiana University School of Medicine Bioinformatics Core primarily by the Mooney Lab.

The Core/Mooney Lab assists a number of different groups on campus. Laboratree has been a tool used as a training ground to help new hires and students to brush up on their coding skills.

Laboratree is a social networking tool for scientists and a research management tool. Laboratree allows you to grow you network by joining up with various colleagues, groups, and projects. Laboratree allows you to e-mail or send messages to all parts of your network. Laboratree allows you to manage a personal or group blog. Laboratree's latest feature allows you to share papers, documents, and other files with other people on Laboratree.

NOTE: Laboratree is a work and progress ... .

Laboratree is being developed by:

Technical Leads: Brandon Peters, Sean Mooney

Programming: Jamison Hemmert, Peter Baenziger, Joshua Waymire, Kishore K. Kamati, Jessica Dantzer, Craig Sanders, Peter Serguta

Design: Joy Nellis

[http://laboratree.org/pages/about]

SciLink: Science Connected

2008-08-13T16:43:00.013-05:00

SciLink™ is an online community with the goal of helping you to discover scientists, authors, and relationships.

SciLink's network of 106,264,967 relationships is built by mining scientific data that exist on the web. Our databases currently contain over 5.8 million scientists and 14 million articles.

[http://www.scilink.com/start.action]

Find, connect, and sharewith other scientists in the SciLink network.

43,368 Users and Growing (August 13 2998)

New approach to networking
With over 104 million relationships mined from literature, SciLink already knows who you're connected to.
Share your knowledge
Meet other scientists with common interests. Participate in group discussions and answer questions to help your colleagues.
Visit Our Job Board
Find jobs and on our comprehensive job board.
Latest science news
Keep up with scientific news and happenings from around the web, all in one place.

[http://www.scilink.com/start.action]

Blog

[http://blog.scilink.com/]

Private-Channel Professional Networking Platform Tailored to Needs of Pharmaceutical and Scientific Communities

[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2007_Nov_7/ai_n27436269]

Facebook Page

[http://www.facebook.com/pages/SciLink/18291367513]

Research1 : YouTube + Facebook + You

2008-08-12T19:45:00.018-05:00

Research1 is an online community that allows researchers to collaborate with peers, and share information and digital media with the general public. Research1, developed by ResearchChannel, allows geographically dispersed teams to work together from anywhere in the world and it provides an ideal outlet for researchers to fulfil their public outreach requirements.

Research1 will provide public access to government-funded research, even while it is in progress, direct interaction with and between experts at the leading edge of their respective disciplines and participation in a community that encourages and supports a level of discourse not commonly available to those outside of academia.

Primary functions

Serve as a premier outlet for researchers to fulfil their public outreach requirements
Foster interaction and communication between members of the public and researchers
Provide a collaborative platform to teams who could potentially be geographically (globally) dispersed

Key Benefits

Greater access to the fruits of governmentfunded research, even while it is in progress
Direct interaction with experts at the leading edge of their respective disciplines
Participation in a community that encourages and supports a level of discourse that is not commonly available to those outside of academia

How does it work?

Individual researchers or teams can establish a Research1 “Project Hub” for each research project. This public-facing webspace may contain up to 10 GB of text, photographs, audio and video that may be shared with the general public or act as a private collaboration space.

A simple set of Web-based tools are provided to create each Project Hub, upload and publish content, launch a blog to discuss ongoing work and facilitate interaction through project or discipline-specific email forums. Video files are automatically transcoded and thumbnailed for cross-platform viewing while maintaining the object in its original format for subsequent use.

What is AARNet doing?

Research 1 is currently in Beta testing. AARNet will use this period to determine a fit of the portal’s functionality to the needs and trends of Australian researchers for publicly disseminating research outcomes using digital media.

AARNet will use the outcomes of the beta testing and initial launch to determine how the portal can have regionalisation capability added as the portal populates over time. The primary focus is on using the portal as significant regional and international presence for Australian research.

The access to and use of this portal provides key opportunities for Australian researchers to both promote their own activities and view peer’s activities internationally.

[http://www.aarnet.edu.au/library/AARNet_Research1.pdf]

See Also

[http://uwnews.org/uweek/uweekarticle.asp?articleID=42953]

About ResearchChannel

[http://www.researchchannel.org/news/overview.asp]

SciSpace: The Social Networking Site For Scientists

2008-08-11T19:13:00.009-05:00

SciSpace.net [http://www.scispace.net/] is a new collaborative tool established by NIEeS, designed to serve the needs of science. The growth of social network web sites such as MySpace and Facebook have shown the power of using the web to support interactions. These examples are focussed on social interactions, and enable individuals to publish information about themselves and communicate with friends and people who they discover share common interests. The technologies that underpin social networks can also be harnessed to support collaborations between researchers, and this is the goal of SciSpace.net.

SciSpace.net uses the Elgg software, which is more commonly used to support learning environments such as Eduspaces, Community@Brighton, Leeds Elgg and Claremont Conversation. SciSpace.net takes a different approach in that it has the primary aim of supporting collaboration. It provides its members a number of opportunities:

Ability to add content in blogs and wikis, and to add comments on both
Ability for this content to be associated with you as an individual, or as part of a community
Ability to form and join communities, large and small
A fine control over access limitations, ranging from very tight control to full public access
Ability to create groups as part of the access control mechanisms
Scope to create and edit a personal profile to present information about your interests and expertise
Ability to add detailed tags to enable other members of SciSpace.net to find you in order to establish a new collaboration
Ability to create friends
Ability to track new content
Ability to aggregate content via RSS

[http://gridinfo.niees.ac.uk/index.php/SciSpace.net]

Browse All

[http://scispace.net/mod/browser/]

Browse Users

[http://scispace.net/mod/browser/index.php?display=users&searchtype=&filter=]

Browse Communities

[http://scispace.net/mod/browser/index.php?display=communities&searchtype=&filter=]

SciSpace accounts are obtained by invitation from an existing member - use the browse button to find someone you know. If you can't find a member to invite you, send an email to request-invite@scispace.net

[http://www.scispace.net/]

Tag Cloud

[http://scispace.net/search/tags.php]

NIEeS is a collaboration between and Natural Research Council (UK) and Cambridge University.

SciMeet: Social Network For Scientists

2008-08-11T18:02:00.008-05:00

The first social network just for scientists! You can use SciMeet to: Reunite with old labmates Make new friends Find new partners for collaboration Grow your career opportunities

Features

[http://www.scimeet.com/help.php]

SciBog :: The Social Network For Scientists

2008-08-11T17:27:00.008-05:00

Whether you are a geneticist, chemist, physicist, anthropologist, or other; The SciBog Social Network is a venue for scientists to communicate across several disciplines. Build your own profile, create your blog, and start networking today!

Members

[http://scientists.scibog.com/profiles/members/]

Forum

[http://scientists.scibog.com/forum]

Groups

[http://scientists.scibog.com/groups]

Photos

[http://scientists.scibog.com/photo]

Videos

[http://scientists.scibog.com/video]

Created by Biotech Learning Institute

[http://scientists.scibog.com/]

Epernicus™: Where Science Meets

2008-08-10T14:47:00.013-05:00

Epernicus [http://www.epernicus.com/] is a professional networking platform for health and life scientists. Our goal is to connect researchers with their real world scientific networks, enabling them to find the resources they need to advance their work. We believe that having a useful network isn't necessarily about adding as many contacts as possible. In fact, most scientists already have a large network based on their current institution and their prior research advisors. The bigger challenge is tapping this network to find the right people with the right expertise at the right time. That's why we created Epernicus.

Scientists use Epernicus to search efficiently for expertise, methods, and materials in their network. Through our scientific profiles, researchers also maintain a professional web presence and stay connected to their current and former colleagues. As many of our members would say, when you're looking for something, it's always better to find it through someone in your network.

Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Epernicus is a resource built by scientists to advance research and scientific careers.

[http://www.epernicus.com/about]

Video

[http://www.epernicus.com/mit_video]

Public Profile Directory

[http://www.epernicus.com/directory/people]

Blog

[http://epernicus.wordpress.com/]

See Also
[http://beckerinfo.net/bioinformatics/2008/06/16/social-networking-for-scientists/]

HCAR KnowledgeMesh™: Connecting the Dots

2008-08-10T13:21:00.025-05:00

The HCAR KnowledgeMesh™ is a social networking and scientific mapping online community that is providing a platform and environment for life sciences and high technology professionals who represent industry, academia, government, investment, workforce, and support organizations to have quality interactions, thereby advancing R&D in the global community.

Similar to LinkedIn™ and Facebook™, the HCAR KnowledgeMesh™ is user-driven and is designed to organically grow and develop overtime.

The HCAR KnowledgeMesh™ houses communities where people from around the globe can interact and collaborate on topics that are important to them. Features of the HCAR KnowledgeMesh™ include communities that are focused on particular research areas like oncology, clean technology, nanotechnology, and many other areas, as well as places and tools for the posting of individual and company profiles, events, blogs, bookmarks on scientific papers, presentations, and podcasts, to name a few.

How does it benefit users?

The HCAR KnowledgeMesh™ provides users with access to new information, ideas, contacts, projects, academic papers, technologies, investment options and many other opportunities that in some way touch the research park. Through this community users will have the opportunity to advance their research and development or their business model and their overall knowledge of the industry.

[http://www.hcarknowledgemesh.com/index.php/about]

HCAR KnowledgeMesh™ Vision

HCAR provides our resident organizations with facilitated access to business services and research resources that accelerate their growth and success in the global economy. [snip]

The HCAR KnowledgeMesh™ will house communities where people located around the globe, including you, can interact and collaborate on topics ... . Features of the HCAR KnowledgeMesh™ include organized communities that are focused on specific research areas like metabolic disease, solar power and nanotechnology, as well as tools that will allow ... [one] to post ... personal or company profile, promote events, write blogs, and share bookmarks on scientific papers, presentations, and podcasts, to name a few.

[http://www.hcarknowledgemesh.com/index.php/vision]

HCAR New Features

[snip]

Profile and Community Dashboards - Various dashboards that offer a quick-glance of "going-on's" within your community and among your colleagues.

File Permissions - The ability for you to decide who sees your content in your personal or community file repository.

Colleague and Community Member Moderation - The ability to decide who can be your colleague and/or member of your community.

Blogs - Journal entries where colleagues and community members can read and give feedback.

[snip]

Dashboards - Dashboards offer a quick-glance of "going-on's" within your community and HCAR KnowledgeMesh. Here you can review your recent messages, accept invites, see recent blogs from your connections and your community or if you are a moderator of a community, you can see the list of invites and other tasks to complete.

Communities: You can now join or create communities! When you first go to communities, look for the link to join or create your own community. We already created a series of communities for you: Government, Industry, Life Sciences, and Real Estate. There are also some sub-communities.

[snip]

Messages: This is the internal messaging system within HCAR.

[snip]

The HCAR KnowledgeMesh™ is a virtual communications platform that will advance science and technology. Each node in the mesh represents an area of research expertise, investment preference, or business model, to name a few. The HCAR KnowledgeMesh™ has been built to encourage communication between those nodes to facilitate the sharing of experience, key findings, and unique expertise.

[http://www.hcarknowledgemesh.com/]

KnowledgeMesh includes profiles, wikis and other tools that were created by Intelmarx, a social software provider that caters to nonprofit organizations and higher education institutions.

Video

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkQeMNYVBnQ]

See Also

[http://www.intelmarx.com/documents/PR-HCARPremiere.pdf]

Labmeeting: Make Science Easier

2008-08-08T19:50:00.043-05:00

Share Scientific Articles ... and Network, Too / Maria José Viñas / Chroncile of Higher Education / Wired Campus / August 6, 2008

A new Web site allows scientists to organize research papers online and share them with their colleagues, while doing some social networking on the side

Labmeeting [http://www.labmeeting.com/] the document management and networking site, which is free for individual scientists and students, allows researchers to upload PDF files of research papers and other documents, mark them, organize them, search them, recommend them to colleagues, and see what their peers are collecting. Each scientist has a profile page and can create groups, inviting the members of their labs to add their documents to a shared collection accessible from anywhere.

Labmeeting is the brainchild of Mark Kaganovich, a Harvard alumnus with undergraduate degrees in biochemistry and computer science ... .

Source

[http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3222/share-scientific-articles-and-network-too]

Virtual Worlds for Virtual Collaboration

2008-08-08T18:13:00.008-05:00

Virtual Worlds for Virtual Collaboration

Presenter: Martin Kesselman, Rutgers University

Utilizing emerging virtual collaboration technologies, librarians have a unique opportunity to find ways to both facilitate student learning and be an integral memberof science research teams. Martin Kesselman, RutgersUniversity, will discuss a Rutgers Second Life initiative that uses Selma Waksman’s work with soil microbiology to immerse science undergraduates into the ways scientists do research and help them develop a professional identity.

Kesselman will also discuss the potential of virtual environments for librarians to collaborate with scientists across disciplinary and global boundaries.

PPT Slides

[http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/usain/VIRTUAL_WORLDS_VIRTUAL_COLLAB-1-1.ppt]

Source

United States Agricultural Information Network / 2008 Conference /April 27-30 2008 /Wooster, Ohio / Hosted by The Ohio State University

[http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/usain/USAIN%20Program08_final.pdf]

ResearchGATE Scientific Network

2008-06-12T16:06:00.008-05:00

ResearchGATE [https://www.researchgate.net/] is a new free of charge web 2.0 platform designed for the need of researchers. With this new platform we want to change the world of science by providing a global and powerful scientific web-based environment, in which scientists can interact, exchange knowledge and collaborate with researchers of different fields.

Sign up and be part of the first scientific network.

present yourself and your research projects
enroll, expand, and broaden your science network globally
exchange know-how and expertise
initiate collaboration
discuss your research limitation and get positive feedback
use our innovative tools and work environments for online collaboration

[https://www.researchgate.net/application.Login.html]

Our Vision: Towards Science 2.0 - The change is happening

"It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions." (Lukas Foss).

[snip]

A vision of Science 2.0 is promising: Instead of disseminating scientific results in regularly scheduled and printed journal issues, now a continuous release of articles in online format will change and expedite the way new results are spread. Without anonymous review processes, open access journals or wiki-like concepts will assure the quality of science. Hidden conglomerates of various interests will give way to transparent and traceable new concepts of scientific impact measurements. Science is collaboration, so scientific social networks, wikis and other means of collaboration will facilitate and improve the way scientists collaborate.

It is clear that the change is already happening. Old fashioned lab note books have given way to Wikis, and the amount of open access journals is increasing. The tendency is that researchers no longer accept control of their publication by others. Raw research data is spread to the benefit of all.

[snip]

ResearchGATE is for scientists built by scientists driven by the concept of Science 2.0

[https://www.researchgate.net/aboutus.AboutUs.html]

Demo
[https://www.researchgate.net/tour.Tour.html]

Blog
[http://blog.researchgate.net/]

Global Network
[https://www.researchgate.net/aboutus.AboutUsWorldmap.html]

iBreadCrumbs: A Social Network for Researchers

2008-06-05T12:18:00.010-05:00

iBreadCrumbs: A Social Network for Researchers to Share Recorded URLs, Track Websites, Review Notes Online, and Encourage Online Collaborative Research.

iBreadCrumbs.com is a recording toolbar for your web browser. Similar to what a DVR does for tv, iBreadCrumbs.com records all the web pages you visit while you research. Save, review, and share your research with friends or colleagues. iBreadCrumbs allows students, researchers, and professors to organize the world's data into narrow research "breadcrumbs" or click-streams.

[http://www.ibreadcrumbs.com/]

About

Interactive BreadCrumbs was created by two Cal State Fullerton entrepreneur students, Reuben Fine and Rey Marques. During their group research projects, they became extremely frustrated at the inefficiency and redundancy of gathering research and decided to solve the problem by creating iBreadCrumbs. They created this site in the hopes that students and researchers worldwide will be able to save and share their research with others in a fast and easy way.

[http://www.ibreadcrumbs.com/information/aboutus/]

Public BreadCrumb Categories / Content

[http://www.ibreadcrumbs.com/breadcrumbs/all_public/]

Demos (YouTube)

[http://www.ibreadcrumbs.com/user/reyman/iBreadCrumbs_Help_Demos/]

Related

/ iBreadCrumbs: a Social Network for Research Sharing / Catherine Rampell / The Chroncile of Higher Education / Wired Campus / June 4 2008 /

Two California State University at Fullerton students have created a tool that allows researchers to share and annotate online research materials.

iBreadCrumbs is a toolbar download that works with Firefox. The software records all the pages you visit when you do research online and allows you to annotate them and share the materials with the users of any Web browser. The product is free.

[more]

[http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/3059/ibreadcrumbs-a-social-network-for-research-sharing]

Elsevier Upgrades ScienceDirect: Links to 2collab Service

2008-04-17T13:57:00.011-05:00

Elsevier Upgrades ScienceDirect
by Barbara Quint Posted On April 17, 2008

Elsevier has announced that it will be launching some improvements to its ScienceDirect service [http://www.sciencedirect.com/], which provides access to the publisher’s STM full-text journals and ebooks. The changes will include navigational improvements in screen layout, four options for filtering existing search results, and access to article comments, ratings, and social bookmarking options supplied by Elsevier’s free 2collab service [http://www.2collab.com/].

[snip]

The new navigational improvements include preview tabs on the results page and the table of contents that let searchers quickly view article abstracts, figures and graphs, and reference citations. No longer do searchers need to reload a page for each article that catches their interest. When viewing a full-text article, a toolbox feature lets searchers quickly click to key functions: Cited By, Download PDF, E-mail Article, etc.

[snip]

An "inline" reference preview shows links to referenced articles as the cursor passes over them in the body of the article. If available and authorized, the links can take the searcher directly to the referenced paper. No longer do searchers have to go to the bottom of an article to reach the citations. Sidi pointed out that searchers can reach non-Elsevier content through link resolvers. They can also now view the number of times articles were cited in Scopus, which includes citations for the articles it covers as well as the abstracts.

[snip]

In November 2007, Elsevier launched an online collaboration platform called 2collab. (For details, see Paula Hane’s NewsLink Spotlight, "Elsevier Creates Social Spaces for Researchers," [http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=40102]. Even on Sept. 17, 2007, during the beta phase, a 2collab product developer announced that one of the project’s first goals was "integration with other Elsevier applications—such as ScienceDirect, Scopus. … For example, on ScienceDirect we would like to display the comments, ratings, and tags posted by 2collab users for relevant articles."

The addition of social bookmarking for articles and opening discussions on ratings and tags added by researchers is still scheduled for "a phased release over the coming months," according to the upgrade announcement. When completed, each article page will carry comments, ratings, and tags added by readers. The services supplied by 2collab already exist in Scopus. They allow both private (invitation only) and public groups.

[snip]

Barbara Quint is contributing editor for NewsBreaks, editor-in-chief of Searcher, and a columnist for Information Today.

[http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=48792]

Muse: The National Internet2 K20 Initiative Online Social Network

2008-04-16T14:07:00.015-05:00

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - April 15, 2008

The Internet2 K20 Initiative today announced that it has launched a brand new social networking site called Muse

[http://k20.internet2.edu/]

which seeks to significantly enhance collaboration, information-sharing and technology opportunities for the over 50,000 K-12 schools, community colleges, libraries and museums in 38 U.S.states that are now connected to the Internet2 backbone network. The site is also expected to provide a better bridge between the U.S. K20 community and its international counterparts worldwide. Within the short time sincel aunching, the new site has already experienced significant uptake within the community.

"The Internet2 K20 community has traditionally embraced advanced technology to facilitate new opportunities for students at all levels to experience a richer environment for teaching and learning. The development of a social networking web resource is a natural progression for our community which has long sought more efficient ways to share experiences, ideas,resources, projects and collaborations across geographic boundaries," said Louis Fox, Director, Internet2 K20 Initiative and Associate Vice President, University of Washington. "We have experienced strong use since the site has gone live and expect its adoption to continue especially as functionality enabling deeper collaboration is added. In the future, we see Muse as a potentiallyhelpful resource for the greater Internet2 community to enhance project collaborations on a global scale and facilitate cross-disciplinaryengagement."

Muse was developed by University of Washington student web programmers under the leadership of James Werle, Associate Director, Internet2 K20 Initiative,University of Washington, and Jennifer Oxenford, Associate Director, MAGPI. The site expands upon the core code of Drupal, an open source content management platform, and provides many of the Web 2.0 features found in popular social networking sites. Practitioners from the broad K20 community can set up individual andinstitutional profiles, describe projects, share resources, and create direct connections with their peers both regionally, nationally and internationally. The site also allows online communities to be created and scoped to a specific geographic area. This feature is geared for groups of organizations looking to share resources just within their immediate region while still participating in the global Muse community

[snip]

While the site continues to rapidly expand in use, Muse plans to introduce the ability for users to create topically-based communities, chat in real time about projects and interests, receive email "Museletters" tailored to those specific interests and provide RSS feeds to broadcast information on new users, projects and organizations as the site grows. In doing so, the site intends to provide the community the ability to develop stronger, more comprehensive collaboration groups and to promote the more rapid adoption of advanced networking applications among this unique set of Internet2 users.

Muse builds on the success of the nationwide Internet2 K20 Initiative in bringing together Internet2 member institutions and innovators from primary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, libraries and museums to extend new technologies, applications and advanced content to alleducational sectors across the country.

Source

[https://mail.internet2.edu/wws/arc/i2-news/2008-04/msg00001.html]

National Internet2 K20 Initiative Goals

To bring innovators in K-12, community colleges, universities, libraries, and museums into appropriate regional, national, and international advanced networking efforts, via the "Sponsored Education Group Participant" (SEGP) process.
To encourage and help sustain partnerships among these education institutions, the private sector, and government.
To enhance teaching and learning by facilitating projects that explore the ways in which advanced network applications, services, tools, and digital content can extend access to education and educational resources.
To develop mechanisms for timely communication across all educational sectors and regions in order to enable quick, pervasive technology diffusion.

[http://k20.internet2.edu/about/goals]

Muse Tours Available For:

People Are The Bioeconomy: Social Media for Engaged Information Conversations

2008-03-30T12:47:00.010-05:00

People Are The Bioeconomy: Social Media For Engaged Information Conversations

Gerry McKiernan, gerrymck@iastate.edu
Library, Iowa State University, 152 Parks, Ames, IA 50011

While a substantial portion of the primary literature on alternative energy is published in scholarly journals, significant research is also reported in conference publications, dissertations, reports, theses, white papers, and other “gray” literature. This presentation will discuss this literature and the efforts of the Iowa State University Library to identify and acquire key gray publications on the production, use, and impact of biofuels, to support university scientific, technical, and sociological research initiatives. Two alternative energy blogs established to promote core publications and resources to a world community will also be profiled. Major current and future research alternative energy projects at Iowa State will be described as well.

The presentation will conclude with speculation on the potential use of social networking services, such as 2collab, chemistry.org/exchange, and the Nature Network to facilitate and support university/industry/government communication, collaboration, and coordination of bioenergy projects.

[http://oasys2.confex.com/acs/235nm/techprogram/P1163116.HTM]

Engineering the Transition to the Bioeconomy

The 235th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 6-10, 2008

9:15 AM-9:45 PM, Sunday, April 6, 2008

Marriott Convention Center -- Blaine Kern D

***PRESENTATION NOW AVAILABLE***

[http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/NoSilos.ppt]

***AUDIO FILE NOW AVAILABLE*** [07-20-09]

NOTE>>Works in Firefox But NOT Internet Explorer<<NOTE

[http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gerrymck/NoSilos.mp3]

Pronetos: The Social Network For Scholars

2008-03-22T11:37:00.015-05:00

What is Pronetos?

Pronetos [http://sn.pronetos.com/] [http://pronetos.com/] is a home to communities and scholars of every academic discipline: a global think-tank of the leaders in your field.

Share a paper with colleagues
Find scholars in your field
Post course materials
Network and collaborate
Find research in your field
Post an announcement to your colleagues
See the message board in your discipline

Pronetos is a social network for scholars and an Open Access publisher. It provides an intuitively designed, real-time, web based community platform that facilitates mass collaboration and democratizes content for global distribution among academics with the ability to archive and search that content. With Pronetos, ideas are shared at the speed of thought, and those who create them control them.

Pronetos is home to communities of every academic discipline – a global think-tank of the leaders in every field. Pronetos makes it easy for scholars to stay connected with thier colleagues, wherever they may be. Pronetos is a place for scholars to network, and build and share ideas with the greatest minds in their field.

Pronetos is a content repository that allows readers and authors to interact and build new ideas. Connect to scholars in your field as you would at a conference, except this conference is attended by scholars from across the globe. Make interdisciplinary contacts. Exchange ideas. Collaborate. Gain exposure for your research. Stay current on trends in your field. Join Disciplines, post discussions, upload articles, read, comment, and rate others’ articles.

Pronetos is the premier gathering place for scholars to collaborate, network, and publish their ideas. Watch in 2008 as we roll out our suite of Open Access publishing services. Publish your own manuscripts with global distribution, create custom textbooks for your classes, and much more.

Plus, you retain ownership of your material through Creative Commons licensing.

Members

[http://pronetos.com/profiles ]

Disciplines

[http://pronetos.com/disciplines]

Articles

[http://pronetos.com/articles_list]

The-New-Networking-Nexus

2008-03-15T16:52:00.008-05:00

The New Networking Nexus / Virginia Gewin

Nature 451, 1024-1025 /(20 February 2008) / doi:10.1038/nj7181-1024a

A crop of websites is making networking among scientists easier than ever

Compared with crafting computational expertise or sharpening gene-splicing skills, networking is one talent many scientists are slow to hone. Luckily, a crop of new websites is encouraging even the most reclusive researchers to rendezvous with colleagues without leaving the lab.

The success of social-networking websites such as MySpace, Facebook and LinkedIn shows the power of the Internet not only to cultivate, but to capitalize on, friendships. Although online networks may seem impersonal, they can do something for scientists that a handshake cannot: highlight common research interests without leaving the comfort of your desk. Say goodbye to name tags and awkward introductions — say hello to profiles and blogs. In the search for jobs, mentors, collaborators or data, these cyber-social mixers are revealing new ways to gain career advice, create collaborations and share resources

SIE PRODUCTIONS/ZEFA/CORBIS

A growing number of websites, including Nature Network (a product of the Nature Publishing Group, the parent company of Nature)

[http://scitechnet.blogspot.com/2007/10/nature-network.html]

and Chemical Forums

[http://www.chemicalforums.com/]

are coming online to meet more specific needs. Although these sites reach out to a broad spectrum of disciplines, scientists can create more focused forums, groups or blogs to spark more specialized discussions. [snip]

Scientists with common interests can connect across long distances and disparate scientific cultures. [snip]

With increased funding for cross-disciplinary science, many networks are experimenting with ways to help members collaborate.[snip]

Building A Critical Mass

[snip]

Within3 [https://www.within3.com/] charges only those hospitals, charities or medical schools that use its service to create a networked sub-community, called a channel. Within3 provides tools for channel partners to document their work as well as conduct polls and surveys or share documents.

[snip]

Some sites do more than just bring people together; they let researchers share data, methodologies and protocols. MyExperiment.org [http://www.myexperiment.org/], funded by the UK government, lets users share workflows: the customary protocols for standardizing data, running simulations or conducting statistical analysis on large data sets. Standardized protocols for manipulating large data sets can be tweaked for specific purposes. Users can comment on their usefulness and link to other work-flows of interest.

[snip]

Tag Along With This

Better yet, tagging — assigning a keyword or rating to a bookmarked online workflow or data set — allows myExperiment to connect users with similar resources that may be of interest. NanoHub [http://www.nanohub.org/], part of the NSF-funded Network for Computational Nanotechnology, lets users rate the courses and simulation tools it hosts. [snip]

On NanoHub, tagging uses the collective wisdom of the community to introduce you to appropriate simulation software," says Noshir Contractor, director of the Science of Networks in Communities lab

[http://www.tec.spcomm.uiuc.edu/nosh/]

at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. He says scientists can expect more such sites streamlining their ability to find the right tools and algorithms.

Networking may get more efficient, says Contractor. Its unrealized potential is the ability to take data from networks that currently reside separately, and mash, or merge, them. He says users will soon be able to collectively mine the data of projects funded by several US agencies to see who is collaborating on what topics.

And of course, networking sites have their limits. Although they can facilitate connections, blogs aren't likely to become a wholesale substitute for a few beers after work any time soon.

[http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/2008/080221/full/nj7181-1024a.html]

BioMedExperts Scientific Online Community Launched

2008-01-12T14:28:00.001-06:00

BioMedExperts [http://www.biomedexperts.com/] is a new online community that connects biomedical researchers to each other through the display and analysis of the networks of co-authors with whom each investigator works to publish scientific papers. The comprehensive system of pre-populated expert profiles, coupled with the ability to analyze all associated professional connections within the co-author network, allows scientists and researchers across organizations the ability to share data and collaborate in ways never before considered.

BME benefits - bringing the brains together

Analyze the expert profiles of more than 1.4 million scientists
As a scientist, you can explore your personal network - starting with your direct co-authors and moving on to the co-authors of your co-authors
Identify researchers with the expertise you need in your broader network through easy-to-use search interfaces
Connect with other researchers who you have identified via BME
Cultivate and grow your professional network

ALSO

BME for biomedical associations

Connect the association members and stimulate research cooperation

BME for governmental institutions

Interlink biomedical experts in your area and unveil their combined regional expertise to the rest of the world

BME for research institutions

Pinpoint institutional expertise for big-science and translational research initiatives

[http://www.biomedexperts.com/Portal/AboutBME.aspx]

PLoS ONE: A Post-Publication-Peer-Reviewed-Open-Access-E-Journal

2007-12-07T14:49:00.000-06:00

WHAT? PLoS ONE

WHERE? http://www.plosone.org/

WHEN? December 2006

WHY? "PLoS ONE is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access, online journal." It "features reports of primary research from all disciplines within science and medicine. By not excluding papers on the basis of subject area, PLoS ONE facilitates the discovery of the connections between papers whether within or between disciplines."

HOW? "Each submission will be assessed by a member of the PLoS ONE Editorial Board before publication. This pre-publication peer review will concentrate on technical rather than subjective concerns and may involve discussion with other members of the Editorial Board and/or the solicitation of formal reports from independent referees. If published, papers will be made available for community-based open peer review involving online annotation, discussion, and rating" (http://www.plosone.org/static/information.action). The open-source software called TOPAZ ( http://www.topazproject.org/) is used to create the advanced Web functionality; the core of TOPAZ is Fedora, the (Flexible Extensible Digital Object Repository Architecture) (http://www.fedora-commons.org/ ). "Fedora is an Open Source content management application that supports the creation and management of digital objects" (http://www.plos.org/cms/node/36 ).

"PLoS ONE will publish all papers that are judged to be rigorous and technically sound. Papers published in PLoS ONE will be available for commenting and debate by the readers, making every paper the start of a scientific conversation." "Judgments about the importance of any particular paper are then made after publication" (http://www.plosone.org/static/whypublish.action).

"The Public Library of Science (PLoS) applies the Creative Commons Attribution License (CCAL) to all works … it publish[es]. Under the CCAL, authors retain ownership of the copyright for their article[s], but authors allow anyone to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute, and/or copy articles in PLoS journals, so long as the original authors and source are cited. No permission is required from the authors or the publishers" (http://www.plosone.org/static/information.action).

PLoS ONE is currently a beta release.

WHO? PLoS ONE is published by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), in partnership with an international advisory board and an extensive editorial board (http://www.plosone.org/static/edboard.action). PLoS is "nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a public resource" (http://www.plos.org/about/).

CITES: "PLoS One," PLoS E-Newsletter for Institutional Members, November 14, 2006. Available at: http://mailings.plos.org/html/20061111.html#one (accessed 27 October 2007).

Catriona J. MacCallum, "ONE for All: The Next Step for PLoS," PLoS Biology 4 no. 11 (November 2006): 1875. Available at: http://biology.plosjournals.org/archive/1545-7885/4/11/pdf/10.1371_journal.pbio.0040401-L.pdf (accessed 27 October 2007).

2collab Video (Beta)

2007-12-01T16:33:00.000-06:00

A Brief Look at the Beta Version of 2collab (October 2007)

Michiel van der Heyden, Senior Product Manager at ScienceDirect, introduces 2collab and demonstrates how it works. 2collab is Elsevier’s new free collaborative research tool that enables researchers to share bookmarks, references or any linked materials with their peers and colleagues.

Watch
[http://www.info.sciencedirect.com/news/podcasts/2collab_promo_vid/player.htm]

YouTube
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmNQB1tswgY]

Download
[http://www.sciencedirect.info/news/podcasts/2collab_promo_vid/2collab%20promotion%20video.zip]

[http://www.sciencedirect.info/news/podcasts/#]

2collab Formally Launched

2007-12-01T15:56:00.000-06:00

Amsterdam – November 27, 2007 –Elsevier, the world's leading publisher of science, technology and medical (STM) information, today announced the official launch of 2collab, a free online platform for scientific collaboration.

2collab is a free Web application that provides researchers with a platform to share resources with networks of peers and specialists, creating an online community that facilitates information discovery, evaluation and debate.

[http://www.2collab.com/]

This official launch follows a successful beta testing period and incorporates feedback gained from researchers based at Elsevier’s Development Partners, which include a range of premier academic, government and corporate institutions worldwide.

“2collab provides the platform and tools needed for researchers to connect with their peers, enhancing the way they work together and offering an open and accessible space that will foster collaboration,” said Jay Katzen, Managing Director, Academic and Government Products, Elsevier.

2collab allows researchers to add, share and rate bookmarks, tag resources, and to add comments and create topical groups. Each user is encouraged to create a personal profile, which everyone can view to ensure the authenticity of fellow users. This creates an accessible environment where specialists can work together on evaluating new research, discussing current controversies and opportunities as well as providing a place for first-time authors to promote their research.

Elsevier’s focus on developing Research 2.0 tools demonstrates its continuous efforts in delivering innovations that allow researchers to increase their productivity and effectiveness. The company’s mission and commitment to the scientific community is to deliver high-quality solutions and to invest in furthering the development of the global science and medical information communities.

[http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authored_newsitem.cws_home/companynews05_00800]

2collab

2007-11-08T12:29:00.000-06:00

WHAT? 2collab

WHERE? http://www.2collab.com/

WHEN? July 2007

WHY? “2collab is a social bookmarking site where … [one] can store and organize … [one’s] favorite internet resources – such as blogs, websites, research articles, and more. Then, in private or public groups … [one] can … share … [one’s] bookmarks with others … . Members of groups can evaluate these resources (by rating bookmarks, tagging and adding comments), or add their … [personal] bookmarks. One can browse public groups and bookmarks, but must register … to access the full 2collab functionality … such as creating groups, adding comments, and adding bookmarks”

[http://www.2collab.com/about].

HOW? Any user can access public 2collab content by selecting items from the ‘tags’, ‘groups’, or ‘users’ tabs found on the right side of the service’s homepage. Tags are listed alphabetically with the number of items associated with a particular term or phrase in parentheses to its right (‘blog (21)’). Users are provided initially with a list of the most popular tags, groups, and users, but can display complete lists if desired. If preferred, tags can be displayed as a tag cloud. The site also provides a ‘Search’ box that provides a free-text search capability for all content.

2collab content consists of the private and public bookmarked resources of the 2collab community. The most recent public resources are displayed in the center of the 2collab homepage, in reverse chronological order. Users have the option of reordering 2collab items by the 'number of votes', 'highest rated' , 'number of comments' by selecting these options from a drop-down menu. Only registered users can vote, rate, or comment on an entry by selecting these options associated with each.

Within his/her personal profile, a registered user can create a bookmark for a range of publications and web content. Registration is free and requires only basic identification information. In creating a bookmark, the user can include a full description of the item and tags in addition to the required URL and resource title. By default, bookmarked items are automatically added to an individual’s personal (‘private’ collection), but may also be added to the public collection if desired (‘Make public’). Bookmarks can be shared with one or more groups.

In addition to basic identification data, the bookmark template allows the user to provide ‘optional reference information’ for publications (e.g., ‘reference type’, ‘source title’, ‘article title’, ‘volume, issue, page’, ‘publication date’, ‘authorship’, ‘authors’, ‘ISBN/ISSN’, and ‘DOI’. The ‘reference type’ provides a drop-down menu of publication types (e.g., ‘Journal Article’, ‘Patent’, ‘Dissertation’, ‘E-print’, ‘Web document’, ‘Presentation’, Course Material’, etc.). In addition to using the bookmark template, users can also use a 2collab browser button, if previously activated.

Registered users can also create interests groups (e.g., SciTechNet: Science and Technology Social Networking Services). In creating a group, the user must provide the ‘group name’ and a description of the ‘group interest’ and select the level of ‘group visibility’ (i.e., ‘open public group’ (‘Everyone can see, join and participate in this group); ‘closed public group’ (‘Everyone can see this group. However, an invitation is needed to join and participate in this group’); ‘private group’ (‘Only group members can find and participate in this group. Non-members have to be invited to join’)). In addition, the user can add tags to characterize the group (e.g., science, SciTechNet, social networking services, technology).

Once a group is created, the group owner can invite members to join and add bookmarks for the group. Bookmarks can be adding manually or imported (or exported) using the appropriate function option (‘import bookmark’ ; ‘export bookmark’) found within the user’s profile. Users can subscribe to an RSS/Web feed to receive the “top 20 search results delivered daily.”

2Collab is currently a beta release.

WHO? 2collab is a free service provided by Elsevier and is a collaboration between Scopus [http://www.scopus.com/] and ScienceDirect [ http://www.sciencedirect.com/]. Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources” and ScienceDirect provides access to significant science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information.

The 2collab team includes

Michiel van der Heyden (Senior Product Manager)

Thijs Willems (Product Manager)

Camelia Csora (Product Technology Manager)

Eric Bales (Consulting Software Engineer)

Shiv Krishnan (Project Manager)

Stephan Stipdonk (Interface Architect)

Rogier Barendregt (Web Developer)

Roy Boverhof (Web Developer)

CITE:

2collab. Help File. Available at: [http://www.2collab.com/help#anchor_bkm_view_list]
blog.2collab.com Blog. Available at: [http://blog.2collab.com/ ]

chemistry.org/exchange

2007-11-01T11:47:00.001-05:00

WHAT? chemistry.org/exchange

WHERE? http://exchange.chemistry.org/

WHEN? December 2006

WHY? chemistry.org/exchange “is user-driven scientific content: [one] … can share, vote, and comment on articles and news among a global community. chemistry.org/exchange is a scientific community: create a profile, assign tags (keywords) to your account, and find and network with other registered users.”

chemistry.org/exchange is an article repository that allows registered users “… to start a library of scientific research that's important to … [them] --publications … [they’ve] authored, or articles that furthers … [their] research.”

chemistry.org/exchange was originally launched as BiotechExchange.org with the intent of providing “individuals [with] the opportunity to meet, dialogue, discuss, debate, and interact with other researchers and professionals involved in discovery and process development for the pharmaceutical and bio-based materials industries.” BiotechExchange.org sought to provide “ … a forum to share information, identify opportunities, and seek collaborations with fellow scientists and industry professionals.”
[http://membership.acs.org/l/localsections/leading_together/winter_07_articles/Alliances.htm]
HOW? To use the full functionality of chemistry.org/exchange, individuals must be registered. Registration is free and requires only basic identification information; one need not be a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS) to join.

As a resource for scientists, users are requested to submit only articles of interest to the community. Contributors should avoid submitting duplicate items by searching chemistry.org/exchange before submission. Submissions should include a link to the original item if possible; at minimum an abstract should be provided. A note on the significance of the submission should also be provided [ http://exchange.chemistry.org/cms/submit.php].

Non-registered and registered users can access the chemistry.org/exchange ‘Most Recent Articles’, ‘Featured Articles’, or the ‘Top Community Articles’ groupings, or by an ‘Article tag cloud’ (‘All’, ’46 hours’, ‘This week’, ‘This month’, ‘This year’). A basic listing of contributions in reverse chronological order option is also available as is access to contributions by rating over a variety of periods (i.e., ‘Top today’ , ‘Top last’, ‘7 days’, ‘Top last 30 days’ , ‘All by vote’, ‘All by date’).

Only registered users can vote or comment on a contribution, or access the membership directory.

A ‘Search’ box for free-text searching is available in the upper right-hand corner of the service’s homepage.

WHO? American Chemical Society (http://www.acs.org/)

CITE: Linda Wang, “ACS Launches Social Networking Site,” Chemical & Engineering News 84 no. 51 (December 18 2006). Available at: [http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/84/i51/8451biotechexch.html]

Nature Network

2007-10-31T14:30:00.000-05:00

WHAT? Nature Network

WHERE? http://network.nature.com/

WHEN? February 2007

WHY? Nature Network is an “… online meeting place for … [scientists] and fellow scientists to gather, talk and find out about the latest scientific news and events.”

Within the Nature Network registered members can

can create their own personal profile in which they can describe themselves and their research interests

establish a group for one’s lab, department or institution, or create a topic-based group

join and have discussions with group members

build their own online network of like-minded people

offer you views on developments in their fields or in the broader world of science

post comments on other individual’s blogs

search and browse a comprehensive listing of all forthcoming seminars and conferences

registered users can post their own events

read the latest news, views and historical insights in the news sections of the networks featured cities

discuss articles using the network’s commenting system

browse local job listings

[http://network.nature.com/about]

In addition to global blogs, forums, groups, and member’s directory, the Nature Network offers access to the naturejobs.com site (‘Jobs’) and ‘Local News’ and ‘Events’ relevant to the current city networks, Boston [ http://network.nature.com/boston] [Congrats, Red Sox !!!] and London [http://network.nature.com/london].

A ‘quick tour’ video about the basic features and functions in Nature Network is available [ http://network.nature.com/quicktour]

HOW? After registration, users are provided with the opportunity to create a profile by providing personal and professional data and information (e.g., occupation, interests, projects, publications, and additional contact addresses). In addition, individuals can review their ‘entries’ (postings), ‘network’ membership, ‘groups’ and ‘tags’.

Registered users can invite other members to join their personal network. Users can also join a group of interest, or contribute to a variety of blogs or forums

Users can search the global Nature Network or local city versions, or browse the respective components of such versions. The membership directory (‘People’) can not only be searched by name, but browsed or searched by self-assigned ‘tags’. Blogs, forums, and groups can also be searched and browsed directly or by tag.

All Nature Network component tags can be accessed from the main site [http://network.nature.com/tags]. Current tags are grouped in three categories: ‘rising’, ‘stable’ and ‘falling’. 'Rising' tags are new or gaining in popularity, 'stable' tags are consistently mentioned, and 'falling' are declining in use.”

WHO? Nature Network is provided by the Nature Publishing Group, the publisher of Nature, one the world's major weekly scientific journals.

CITE: Jessica Shepherd, “Would Like to Meet: A Popular New Site Could See Scientists Exchanging Ideas, Posting Data ... and Even Finding Love Online,” The Guardian (Education Pages), July 3, 2007.
[http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2116570,00.html ]

Launch of SciTechNet(sm): Science and Technology Social Networking Services

2007-10-31T14:27:00.001-05:00

Friends/

The SciTechNet(sm): Science and Technology Social Networking Services blog was launched on October 31 2007. SciTechNet(sm) is devoted to describing and documenting online social networking services in the Sciences and Technology.

/Gerry