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Community Services enter professional territory ‐ what is in there for us?
Author(s) -
GRZYBOWSKI A
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
acta ophthalmologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.534
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1755-3768
pISSN - 1755-375X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2008.6453.x
Subject(s) - cornerstone , ideal (ethics) , service (business) , the internet , copernicus , computer science , world wide web , internet privacy , business , political science , marketing , geography , physics , archaeology , astronomy , law
International collaboration ‐ a cornerstone of today's research ‐ requires state‐of‐the‐art communication tools. There are a number of dedicated services for scientists in the internet which provide networking and social services, such as SciVee, SciLink, Community of Sciences and Index Copernicus, just to name a few of them. Each of them have unique functionalities which make the service useful and interesting. The ideal scientific service should provide maximum security and excellent networking capabilities. Scientists should be able to search for collaborators not only by specialty, keywords and geographical location, but also by special research skills and available lab equipment. It would be helpful if some kind of achievement evaluation could be added into the search service. The second important property of an ideal scientific service should be profiled information delivery which could save a precious researchers time. Last but not least a real collaboration tools should be added to enable online investigations. In my talk I will try to give an answer to the question "what is in there for us?".