Sigma Xi, an international society of science and engineering, has partnered with the online resource ResearchGATE (researchGATE.net) to provide new networking opportunity for its membership of 50,000 scientists and engineers.
ResearchGATE is a professional scientific network for scientists and researchers. It connects researchers and information, and offers tools tailored to researchers' need and helps them keep in touch with scientists all over the world. Users can search abstracts and find experts or colleagues from all over the world. They can query powerful search engines to discover articles related to their research focus in indexes containing millions of publications from different sources. The site also has an international job board with a listing of more than 950 career opportunities.
ResearchGate has built a network of more than 400,000 researchers from 200 countries. More than 1,000 subgroups have been created for specific disciplines, and more than 60,000 research documents have been uploaded for sharing with others on the site.
Sigma Xi has its own sub-community on ResearchGATE, which can relate to other subcommunities and groups based on various affinities: universities, private and governmental research institutions, disciplinary pursuits like chemistry, physics, biology, economics, and civil and electrical engineering, interdisciplinary pursuits like biochemistry, quantum computing and so on. The Society has already established affiliations with four British university groups: East Anglia, Cambridge, University of London and Imperial College–London.
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