The full wiki

"We find similar sentences to those in Wikipedia, complete with their citations for you to paste into your essay. It's the easy way to branch off to find authoritative sources and relevant quotes to deepen your research."

http://www.thefullwiki.org/

Scitable: a social network for science research and education

Scitable is a social site where teachers, researchers, and students can collaborate, share work, and help one another. The “social” in Scitable’s social network is less about sharing photos of your weekend trip and more about working collaboratively with people who have similar or complimentary goals to your own. Scientific inquiry is rarely conducted in a vacuum, so Scitable aims to connect people together in meaningful ways.


http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/05/06/scitable-a-social-network-for-science-research-and-education/


http://www.nature.com/scitable

A quick and dirty REF

"So here is my (well Tony's mainly) proposal for a quick and dirty REF:

Research councils monitor where money goes and evaluate research projects
Publishers have databases of authors and citations

The REF then centrally datawarehouses these sources, adds in various weighting factors, creating a score for individuals, which is aggregated for the institution to give their REF evaluation (maybe by subject or maybe across a whole institution).

It uses proxies for research quality, and is focused on research funding and formal publications, but hey, so is the current REF. If we're going to be forced to play that game, then couldn't we at least do it in an efficient manner? It would at least free up a lot of time to you know, actually do research."

http://nogoodreason.typepad.co.uk/no_good_reason/2011/04/a-quick-and-dirty-ref.html

Mendeley: Bibliography database, created automatically

Extract citations from PDFs, index your research paper collection, and generate bibliography lists with Mendeley's automatic bibliography maker

Bibliographies, citations, and research paper organization made easy! Mendeley Desktop lets you set up your personal research paper database from multiple sources: Extract bibliographic data from PDFs automatically, grab citations and documents off web databases with a single click, and sync with other reference managers.

http://www.mendeley.com/bibliography-maker-database-generator/

Zotero

"Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself."

http://www.zotero.org/

Researcher Profiles and Portfolios: Use Cases of the Facebook Service and the University of Queensland Researchers Service

"Facebook offers a number of useful features that could be adapted for users in the academic environment. Facebook also offers a more 'live', real-time view of a researcher, and it provides a much more engaging and interactive experience. The UQ Researchers service, by contrast, appears both old-fashioned and extremely static, and it offers no way within its system for visitors to interact with any of its content, or with any of the researchers profiled therein. Below are some recommendations for making UQ Researchers more 'user-friendly'."

http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july08/weaver/07weaver.html

Visualising CoAuthors in Open Repostory Online Papers

"...if you hover over the name of an author, the links to the papers they contributed to will be highlighted. If you hover over a paper reference, the authors who contributed to it will be highlighted."



http://blogs.open.ac.uk/Maths/ajh59/014979.html

Zotero

"Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself."

http://www.zotero.org/

Diigo - Highlight and Share the Web

"Diigo is a powerful research tool and a knowledge-sharing community"

http://www.diigo.com/index

OttoBib - Make a bibliography

http://ottobib.com/