A new Web site allows scientists to organize research papers online and share them with their colleagues, while doing some social networking on the side.
Labmeeting, the document management and networking site, which is free for individual scientists and students, allows researchers to upload PDF files of research papers and other documents, mark them, organize them, search them, recommend them to colleagues, and see what their peers are collecting. Each scientist has a profile page and can create groups, inviting the members of their labs to add their documents to a shared collection accessible from anywhere.
Labmeeting is the brainchild of Mark Kaganovich, a Harvard alumnus with undergraduate degrees in biochemistry and computer science who received $500,000 in May from angel investors to launch the site, Techcrunch reports. Mr. Kaganovich plans to charge fees to corporate users such as pharmaceutical companies in the future.—Maria José Viñas
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