 | | Blogs and Professional Social Networks |
|  | academia.edu (www.academia.edu/) Academia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. The company's mission is to accelerate the world's research. Academics use Academia.edu to share their research, monitor deep analytics around the impact of their research, and track the research of academics they follow. Academics have uploaded 40 million papers, and 92 million academics, professionals, and students read papers on Academia every month. |
| | DailyRussianScience (facebook.com/DailyRussianScience/) The Facebook account of the Institute for the Study of Science of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Review of research dynamics, publications, a forum for sharing ideas. |
| | Epernicus (epernicus.wordpress.com) A professional networking platform for scientists. Epernicus seeks to connect you to the people and resources you need to advance your research.
Epernicus helps you learn about other scientists and find important skills and expertise in your scientific network. It also provides you with a professional scientific profile and helps you stay connected with colleagues in your real-world scientific networks - your lab alumni groups, departments, and institutions. |
| | High Energy PhDs (particlephd.wordpress.com)A Wordpress powered resource that deals with professional scientific discussions on physics of particles and strings. |
| | KnigoGid (BookGuide) (https://knigogid.ru/) A non-commercial Russian site offering users’ book recommendations and exchange of various kinds of texts. |
| | LabRoots (www.labroots.com/)LabRoots is one of the leading scientific social networking website, offering top scientific trending news and premier educational virtual events and webinars. |
| | Labspaces (www.labspaces.net/blogs)LabSpaces.net is a social network for the scientific community designed to spread scientific news, maintain and create friendships, and harbor collaboration through the internet. The site serves as a web profile for researchers and labs, and is also a community for active communication in the sciences. |
| | Mendeley (www.mendeley.com)A desktop and web program produced by Elsevier for managing and sharing research papers, discovering research data and collaborating online. |
| | myExperiment (www.myexperiment.org/) ► myExperiment is a collaborative environment where scientists can safely publish their workflows and in silico experiments, share them with groups and find those of others. Workflows, other digital objects and bundles (called Packs) can now be swapped, sorted and searched like photos and videos on the Web. Unlike Facebook or MySpace, myExperiment fully understands the needs of the researcher and makes it really easy for the next generation of scientists to contribute to a pool of scientific methods, build communities and form relationships — reducing time-to-experiment, sharing expertise and avoiding reinvention. myExperiment is now the largest public repository of scientific workflows. |
| | Nanohome (www.nanopaprika.eu/)A network community of nano-scientists that offers communication and experience exchange within blogs, forums, and news feeds |
| | NARCIS (www.narcis.nl/)Holland academic portal (National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System) that enables an access to 245713 open scientific publications from Holland and other countries. |
| | PLoS (www.plos.org)A nonprofit open-access science, technology and medicine publisher, innovator and advocacy organization with a library of open-access journals and other scientific literature under an open-content license. |
| | Posts (www.researchblogging.org)A research portal that focuses on materials sharing by means of blogs and RSS-feeds |
| | Retraction Watch (retractionwatch.com/) ► Retraction Watch blog is getting known as the specialist web site getting the scoop on research papers that are often mysteriously withdrawn from international science journals. Journalists Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus started their website in August 2010 and have been building up a solid readership and an excellent reputation. |
| | ResearchGate (www.researchgate.net/)The world's largest scholarly social network. Free registration is required. |
| | Science Blogs (scienceblogs.com)A permanently modified collection of scholarly blogs. |
| | SciPeople (scipeople.ru/)A social network (Russia) for researchers, undergraduate and graduate students. |
| | SciTech Connect (scitechconnect.elsevier.com)SciTech Connect is a blog for the science and technology community, run by the Elsevier Science and Technology Books division. It features posts by prominent Elsevier authors, employees, and other industry experts, sorted by subject matter, field of study and interest. |
