Yesterday we have launched the community function. From now on every user of “scholarz.net” can create a profile, manage contacts, find other researchers and build up his research network.
A typical social network. But: customized for the requirements of scholars and linked to their research data. You can search the public libraries of other users for interesting information and soon you will also be able to find new colleagues while searching their public folders.
To us privacy policy was of great importance. That’s why you can choose for every piece of data whether it should be seen by others or not. Thus the community offers multiple possibilities to build up networks. And if you just want to use the knowledge management functions of scholarz.net and not the community function you simply disable it.
Of course, there’s only a very basic version of the community available now, but Jens is already working on some add-ons. An advanced search, groups, messaging, a question-and-answer-platform and many more nice features will follow.
Get connected!
Tags: community, Scholarz.net
