Digital tools for researchers

Connect with others

Research cannot stay buried in the lab anymore! UnderConnect with experts and researchers, you will find a set of tools that help researchers reach out to other researcher and find expertise for new collaborations. Under Outreach, find tools that help you communicate your research to the general public. Citizen science, gathers tools to help you involve the general public in your research efforts, by sharing CPU time, or counting birds for example. And underCrowdfunding, you will find tools that help you collect funds for research from others.

Connect with experts and researchers

• Academia – A place to share and follow research and researchers.
• AcademicJoy – Share research ideas and story in research and innovation.
• Addgene – Connect with other researchers through this plasmid sharing platform.
• AssayDepot – Pharmaceutical marketplace for life science research services.
• Benchling – Life science data management and collaboration platform.
• BiomedExperts – Scientific social network to research, collaborate, and connect with researchers and medical experts worldwide.
• Biowebspin – Platform in life science worldwide to networks, work, look up information.
• Cureus – A free and open access the medical journal and a place for physicians to build a digital CV.
• Direct2experts – A federated network of biomedical research expertise.
• Expertnet – Helps you locate experts in Florida universities.
• GlobalEventList – A comprehensive directory of scientific events worldwide.
• Kaggle – Connect with organisation in need of data prediction algorithms through open competitions for the best code. (blog post)
• LabRoots – Social network for researchers.
• Linkedin – Professional networking site for all.
• Loop – Open, cross-platform network for researchers and academics from the Frontiers journals.
• MalariaWorld – The world’s scientific and social network for malaria professionals.
• Mendeley – A unique platform comprising a social network, reference manager, article visualization tools
• MyScienceWork – Diffuse scientific information and knowledge in a free and accessible way.
• nanoHUB – Centralized platform for computational nanotechnology research, education, and collaboration.
• Open Science Framework – Gathers a network of research documents, a version control system, and a collaboration software.
• Piirus – Helps researchers meet potential collaborators, build networks and develop their core research.
• Research Connection – A searchable platform for research jobs and information.
• ResearchGate – Social network for researchers.
• ScienceExchange – Marketplace for shared lab instrumentations. (blog post)
• SocialScienceSpace – Social network to bring for social scientists.
• Trelliscience – A digital platform that connects you to the rest of the scientific community, ran by the AAA.
• Zombal – Connects the scientific community globally for scientific outsourcing

Outreach

• AcademicJoy – Sharing research ideas and story in research and innovation.
• AcaWiki - Summarizing academia and quasi-academia, one document at a time.
• DrawScience – Take science articles, make pictures.
• I Am Scientist – A science outreach education and engagement activity.
• nanoHUB – Centralized platform for computational nanotechnology research, education, and collaboration.
• Publiscize – Empowering scientists to free science and make their research available to everyone.
• ScienceGist – Simplified summaries of scientific papers. (blog post)
• SciVee – Science video sharing platform.
• SciWorthy – A science news site for the everyday person to better understand science.
• Useful Science – Summaries of the latest science useful in life.

Citizen science

• Folding@home – Distributed computing project which studies protein folding, misfolding, aggregation, and related diseases.
• Kaggle – Platform for data prediction competitions.
• Project Noah – Explore and document wildlife on this citizen scientists platform.
• SciStarter – Find, join, and contribute to science through recreational activities and citizen science research projects.
• SETI@home – Put your CPU to work to help detect intelligent life outside Earth.
• Zooniverse – Citizen science projects using the efforts and ability of volunteers to help scientists and researchers.

Crowdfunding

• Experiment – Crowdfunding Platform for Scientific Research.
• My Projects – Donate to the research work that means the most to you.
• Petridish – Fund science & explore the world with renowned researchers.
• SciFlies – Allows anyone, anywhere to directly support research they care about.
• Consano – Research crowdfunding site to directly support innovative medical research that matters to you