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Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Scitable: a social network for scientists and scholars by David Sarno

Nature Publishing Group, has created an online science library. The information you will find there mostly focuses on genetics and is for college and later students and who need help with their classwork.

Scitable.com is giving the often nebulous concept of social media a purpose by building an online community around scientific learning and knowledge exchange.
Scitable was launched by the 140-year-old Nature Publishing Group, whose flagship journal Nature is among the best-known peer-reviewed science publications. The site says its social network membership numbers in the hundreds of thousands, and it's clear from paging through the members that it has attracted young scientists from across the planet.
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About Scitable
Scitable is an open online teaching/learning portal combining high quality educational articles authored by editors at NPG with technology-based community features to fuel a global exchange of scientific insights, teaching practices, and study resources. Scitable currently contains articles in the field of genetics, and is intended for college undergraduate faculty and students. Future plans involve extension of Scitable to other fields within the life sciences, as well as to other audiences.