Research Sharing Gets New Tools and Goes Trendy
Information Today, 4 September 2008
http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=50584
Paula J. Hane
"Last fall I wrote about several social networking/collaboration projects from Elsevier—2collab and Scirus Topic Pages (http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=40102). The initiatives were designed to support academic library communities and their researchers with advanced "Research 2.0" tools. The resources created social spaces in which researchers could work together. These tools offer platforms for shared knowledge to be leveraged for information discovery and evaluation. Since then, I’ve seen greatly increased activity in this space..."