Elsevier Creates Social Spaces for Researchers by Paula J. Hane, Information Today (Nov 1)
Datamonitor predicts that active membership (not passive) in social networking sites is expected to climb to 230 million by the end of 2007. Of course there are the millions in MySpace and Facebook, but many million will be in smaller niche communities. Elsevier will be part of this.
"Elsevier said that its newest social networking initiatives are designed to support academic library communities and their researchers with advanced “Research 2.0” tools. Two new resources—still in beta release—from the STM publisher create social spaces in which researchers can work together. These new tools offer platforms for shared knowledge to be leveraged for information discovery and evaluation."
They are:
+ "2collab, an online platform for scientific collaboration, supports researchers by working as a community to filter information and enhance information literacy. "
+ "Scirus Topic Pages is a Wiki-like online resource for the scientific community that provides authoritative summaries of specialized research areas and offers a platform to facilitate scholarly debate."
Posted by Gwen at November 4, 2007 10:47 AM