January 19, 2009

SciTopics Open

Elsevier Launches SciTopics—Now a Fully Developed Research 2.0 Resource by Paula Hane, Newsbreaks (Jan 19)

Scirus Topic pages are now available from Elsevier at Scitopics.

From the SciTopics site:

"SciTopics is a free, wiki-like service for the scientific community, where scientific experts summarize specific scientific topics, and where links to the latest, most relevant journal literature and web sources are presented on one page. "

There are 650 topics - summary of the topic and linked resources.

Paula Hane wrote, "The newly expanded SciTopics offers additional functionality and features and a new look and feel for the information and collaboration web resource designed for the scientific community. It has also reached a healthy critical mass, now offering some 650 live topic pages with many more in draft format."

Posted by Gwen at January 19, 2009 03:37 PM