Comments on: Tools for online academic collaboration?

By: Kelly

Kelly — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:19:01 +0000

Hi Shane,

I vote for grouptable.com. Have not used it lately, but it works very well. In my opinion.

By: Ana

Ana — Fri, 20 May 2011 15:02:41 +0000

There is a new product – projektino.com, created for small companies as well as for teachers and students to run their projects efficiently. You can share and store documents, set due dates, sending messages, collaborate online and many more…If you are interested-there is a basic plan free of charge http://www.projektino.com

By: Kate Nader

Kate Nader — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 11:42:31 +0000

HyperOffice is another tool i would recommend.

By: Pankaj

Pankaj — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 11:18:29 +0000

HyperOffice is another cool tool. It combines multiple features – email, team collaboration, project management – in a single suite.

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:15:56 +0000

BioKM (www.biodata.com) is a laboratory management tool that allows you to track research progress, lab supplies, specimen collection & experimental results which helps simplify collaboration efforts. Additionally, BioKM provides for an easy way to manage all papers and references.

By: Sarah Bodnar-Brim

Sarah Bodnar-Brim — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:57:40 +0000

http://www.grouptable.com
is wonderful online group collaboration tool and it’s free.

By: Host BD

Host BD — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 07:24:54 +0000

Shirley Wu is right. i say the same…

For online paper management and group file sharing – http://www.labmeeting.com

For online collaboration management – http://www.laboratree.org

By: Rob Oakes

Rob Oakes — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:54:31 +0000

My Research Group has had tremendously good luck with both Subversion (which is a version control system) and Office Live (a free online service from Microsoft). Subversion works great for specific projects, we create a series of stock folders: references, notes, discussions. References include PDF documents, notes include observations on those references (saved as individual text files which people then add their observations to the top of), and discussions include active questions which the PI or other individuals want to solicit feedback on. The upside is that it is a distributed system with offline files that anyone can get plug into via checking out a copy of the repository. When writing finally does coommence on a paper or proposal, a new folder: drafts is added. Subversion is OpenSource, thus it is rather easy to convert an old computer to a dedicated subversion server. If you are interested, there is overview of Subversion on my website. Office Live Workspace is something that we started using relatively recently. It is very similar to Microsoft's Sharepoint, except accessed via the internet through a Windows Hotmail account. Each account gets 5 GB of online storage plus the ability to create an unlimited of projects (called workspaces). Each workspace can be used to host/share files (any type though it works best with MS Office documents), hold discussions, etc. While it will work with any browser, the software seems to play best with Windows (e.g. you can directly mount the workspace as a local drive). Office 2007 even has a plug-in which allows it to access the files without going through the browser.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:47:31 +0000

….i`ve heard about a new semantic search engine at researchgate – anyone tried it out?

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:07:47 +0000

Well, the link obviously is http://www.researchgate.net … Should have mentioned that!