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Tuesday, December 8. 2009

ResearchGATE is the innovation path to scientific research- as featured on BusinessWeek

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It is a very exciting week for ResearchGATE, the largest scientific collaboration that exists today. We are currently featured on Businessweek- Innovation Channel as the leading tool which helps scientists connect and collaborate. The article, written by Steve Hamm explains how scientists are leveraging ResearchGATE to connect with other scientists from all over the world. This also shows that with tools like ResearchGATE, there are no boundaries. 

Here is an excerpt from the article-

Madisch, who has a medical degree and a PhD, was born in Germany to Syrian parents and lives in Boston. He got the idea for ResearchGATE when he was doing graduate work in radiology at Harvard Medical School in 2007. He was frustrated because he knew of only a half-dozen others who were working on projects related to his research into improving the resolution of medical imagery. Then he learned about a potential collaborator's research through the man's Facebook page. Madisch had experienced the power of social networking, and he decided to develop a Web site that could offer connections and collaboration tools to researchers worldwide. He launched the site in May 2008, and already 180,000 researchers from more than 200 countries are using it regularly.

The full article can be found here

 

Monday, November 30. 2009

Social Media Help Generate Science 2.0

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An extensive article written by Globe and Mail's Mathew Ingram has been published on the leading internet site- Internet Evolution.This is just another sign that social media and online collaboration is really opening the door for scientists to connect with each other.


Here is an excerpt from the article itself:

The idea that the Internet might be used for scientific collaboration shouldn't come as much of a surprise, since the Web's predecessor was originally created as a way to connect researchers at different institutions so they could solve problems together.

That said, however, collaboration has accelerated over the past several years, thanks in part to the increasing popularity of social media, or Web 2.0 tools, which have collectively lowered the barriers to online interaction for scientific researchers.

Another open-source science project is Bizarro's Bioinformatics Organization, which started in 1998 and uses wiki software to let researchers post models, questions, experiments, and discoveries related to biology and "informatics." Scientists were "looking for a central location for their open source projects," founder Jeff Bizarro told LinuxInsider. Today, the organization has 27,000 members from all around the world.

If Bizarro is like Facebook or Wikipedia, a collaborative network called ResearchGate has aspects that are similar to LinkedIn, the corporate social network. While the service allows scientists to search for and connect research done by others to their own work in order to see patterns or relationships that are worth following, it also allows scientists to create profiles and search for relationships with other researchers in similar or related disciplines.

ResearchGate, which has 180,000 members, says it wants to create something called "Science 2.0" using social media tools. According to the group's Website, "communication between scientists will accelerate the distribution of new knowledge. Without anonymous review processes, the concept of open-access journals will assure research quality. Science is collaboration, so scientific social networks will facilitate and improve the way scientists collaborate."

Some scientists are using even newer tools to collaborate -- including Google Wave, the new tool launched by the search giant that some describe as a combination of email, instant messaging, and a wiki.

You can read the whole article here- http://bit.ly/7FZlCw

 
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