Publish at February 28 2011 Updated November 16 2023
Sharing scientific interests is radically transforming scientific collaboration, and Research Gate, a networking site, has been designed for researchers to do just that.
We do three things:
Registration is simple and progressive, and creating interest groups or joining existing ones is easy and intuitive. The search tool leads to surprising resources, be they documents, groups, discussions or journals. Above all, it leads to the most relevant contacts you could wish to find.
The probability of finding the right person is very high, whatever your field. That's what makes this German service, based in Berlin, so prodigious. It really is a scientific social network - nothing like Facebook or LinkedIn, it's all about science.
No job offers, no business offers, nothing but knowledge and its development, in all languages.
Research Gate is a good complement to Mendeley (see article on Thot), the former being more social and the latter more documentary, and it is assumed that many researchers use both.
Scientific research is becoming as democratic as access to knowledge, and the pace of discovery is set to accelerate.
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