ScienceAlerts.com, a social network featuring information in the basic and applied sciences of biology, agriculture, environment, forestry, geography and health, has added the Agriculture Sciences Category with over 72,000 articles from over 350 scientific agriculture publishing sources.
The members of ScienceAlerts monitor 5,718 journals and alert visitors in real-time through topic-specific site content and RSS feeds. Till now, 23,321 members have signed up and have actively contributed 1,064,854 posts to the site. The latest additions to the site are aggregated on the frontpage as well as in a Sciences RSS Feed. The new Agricultural Sciences category currently features 72,018 posts exclusively selected from 357 scientific health publishing sources.
The ScienceAlerts.com Agriculture Category covers the effects of disease and medical treatment on the overall condition of organisms. It also provides an Agriculture RSS feed which is stated to be one of the best and most popular ways of staying up to date with the latest news in this science discipline. One of the latest articles features reintroduction of grazing management after deforestation of formerly abandoned grassland and its effect on early vegetation changes in the Western Carpathians (Slovakia).
ScienceAlerts.com's rigorous review process is said to ensure that only relevant content is featured on the site. Since new science content is discovered in real-time, the delay between original publication and appearance at ScienceAlerts.com is usually only minutes. The website includes a search feature to retrieve specific titles or keywords from its database. In addition, it suggests up to 10 related articles for each article selected.