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A set of social media and social networking tools that may be useful for academic researchers
Updated on Sep 23, 11
Created on Jan 19, 11
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Mal Booth's List: UTS Library Research Week
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Dec 29, 10
Quora's service allows users to ask questions and give answers. Additionally, users can comment on the questions and answers and "upvote" or "downvote" the answers. An "Answer Summary" can be created to reflect the consensus of the community. This summary is a wiki that can be edited by any registered user.
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Jan 08, 11
How to use the Web to find content for your talks, record them, share them with others and save them for future audiences. Also explains how to share it all for free and how to convert closed formats into open ones by using the Web. A really useful review of mostly free software.
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Jan 17, 11
Graphic representing differences & similarities between Facebook & Twitter.
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Jan 17, 11
Science-focussed community with features like forums, Q&A, groups, etc. Includes a PhD students' forum. Community, collaboration, exploration/search.
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Jan 17, 11
Collaboration platform designed specifically for researchers in the science, technical and medical communities providing online bookmarking & reference management, groups, networking.
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Jan 17, 11
Labmeeting's mission is to help researchers work more efficiently. It offers researchers a web service to organize, collect, and share scientific papers.
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Jan 17, 11
Academia.edu is a free social networking website and collaboration tool aimed at academics and researchers from all disciplines. Like Facebook or LinkedIn for academics, but not as annoying or distracting. Very focussed on academia.
Launched in September 2008, it became one of the largest social networking sites/portals for academics in 2010. -
Jan 17, 11
ResearcherID is a global, multi-disciplinary scholarly research community. With a unique identifier assigned to each author in ResearcherID, you can eliminate author misidentification and view an author's citation metrics instantly. Search the registry to find collaborators, review publication lists and explore how research is used around the world.
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Jan 17, 11
ScienceStage is a global, science-oriented multimedia portal that specializes in online video streaming, which is used to support communication between scientists, scholars, researchers in industry, and professionals. It is also used by academics and students as a virtual educational tool. Video content ranges from conference recordings, to interviews, documentaries, webinars, and tutorials. ScienceStage, as its slogan suggests, also functions as a 'hub' by creating a meta-layer that enables the networking of both users (individuals and groups) and content (video, audio, and documents), which forms an integrated multimedia and social networking platform for scientists.
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Jan 17, 11
Makes it easy to find, use and share scientific workflows and other Research Objects, and to build research communities.
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Apr 26, 10
a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research.
Automatically generate bibliographies
Collaborate easily with other researchers online
Easily import papers from other research software
Find relevant papers based on what you’re reading
Access your papers from anywhere online
Read papers on the go, with our new iPhone app -
Jan 17, 11
Offers both private and public social networks focussed on medical research scientists.
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Jan 17, 11
Graduate Junction is an online community connecting postgraduates who have similar academic interests. Graduate Junction aims to break down the interdisciplinary and institutional barriers that exist in academia and connect people based only on the work that they do and the interests that they have. Graduate Junction was founded in 2008 by two postgraduates at Durham University working alongside their own degree projects because they felt isolated in their own fields. When the first version of the Graduate Junction platform was launched it received support from postgraduates and academics alike. It has continued to grow with the community now containing almost 16,000 members.
The community has continued to evolve over time with new functions and features added based upon suggestions from the community itself. All functionality added to the site since its launch has been requested by postgraduates. Despite having no external funding or support these changes have been made possible thanks to the time input of postgraduate volunteers, making Graduate Junction an entirely postgraduate-led initiative. -
Jan 17, 11
This pulls in feeds from others who blog about peer-reviewed research. Makes it easy for your readers - and others from around the world - to find your serious posts about academic research.
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Jan 17, 11
Free professional network for scientists. Has useful tools to help - Connect and Communicate: Interact with fellow researchers and build your scientific network. Share and Collaborate: Post updates, discuss methods and co-edit with colleagues. Discover: Download full-text papers, find conferences and scientific jobs.
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Jan 17, 11
Free service for managing and discovering scholarly references.
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Jan 17, 11
Cloud-based service that facilitates saving, organising & sharing of references. Export to, import from desktop reference managers.
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Jan 18, 11
Post about the power of social networks such as Quora V the semantic web.
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Sep 14, 09
Free, browser-based easy-to-use tool to help collect, organize/sort, search, cite, and share research sources.
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Jan 20, 11
An old presentation that has been much-viewed about the benefits of social media use for researchers.
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