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ReadWriteWeb
By: Jolie O'Dell
- September 20, 2009
- With hundreds of thousands of users and over a million pageviews since its launch early this year, Scitable is a science learning network that's teaching us at ReadWriteWeb more about getting traffic than about genetics. For entrepreneurs appealing to niche verticals - i.e., anyone not attempting to be the next Facebook - these lessons are no less valuable than those learned in our previous interview on Spymaster's virality.
ZDNet
By: Christopher Dawson
- September 13, 2009
- This last May, I wrote a post about Scitable, a new web-based product from the Nature Publishing Group. Since then, Scitable has become a real go-to site for in-depth information about genetics with a variety of content appropriate for upper level secondary and post-secondary classrooms.
CNN.com
By: Lara Farrar
- September 09, 2009
- As millions of students across the world go back to school this month, 178 students from 49 countries will turn on their computers and step onto the virtual campus of the world's first global, tuition-free online university.
Ignite Social Media
By: Jim Tobin
- August 25, 2009
- While most social networks are built around relationships, semantic social networks are built around a particular topic. One good example of this is a new network, from the publisher of Nature, called Scitable.
E-Learning Queen
By: Susan Smith Nash
- August 18, 2009
- Welcome to an interview with Vikram Savkar, Nature Education, who has dedicated energy and time to promoting science education that is truly collaborative, and which leverages new technologies and social networking to engage students and to make them comfortable with discovery science. He has led the development and launch of a new product, Scitable.com, which offers online learning, a social network, and a resource base of science.
About.com - Biotech/Biomedical
By: Theresa Phillips
- August 12, 2009
- The countdown to "back to school" has begun - in fact a colleague of mine was lamenting as much as two weeks ago that she had to start her back to school shopping. Teachers across the country will soon be gearing up for new programs in the fall and with kids being so much more techno-savvy, it makes sense to use online teaching tools as much as conventional approaches. The Scitable website by Nature Education is one such tool, providing a host of free online resources including an online classroom that can be set up in minutes.
Forbes
By: Taylor Buley
- August 07, 2009
- Nature's Scitable social network hopes to get students excited about science. There are few better examples than Wikipedia to demonstrate the divide between old media and new. Offline encyclopedias are static, isolated and expensive; the online version is dynamic, social and free.
The Los Angeles Times
By: David Sarno
- August 05, 2009
- Who said social networks were only good for socializing? Scitable.com is giving the often nebulous concept of social media a purpose by building an online community around scientific learning and knowledge exchange.
Agence France Presse
By: Chris Lefkow
- July 31, 2009
- They don't offer degrees but then they don't charge tuition either. Colleges and universities across the United States are offering free courses online on virtually every subject imaginable, including videotaped lectures by some of their most distinguished professors.
Ad Age
By: Chris Abraham
- July 14, 2009
- A couple of months ago I attended a discussion at the National Press Club titled "What Will We Tell Peoria?" during which a panel of journalists complained that people have become too stupid to realize how essential traditional methods of reporting are and how we'll all be sorry when rigorous newsrooms close and papers die and only TMZ is left standing.
eWeek
By: Nicholas Kolakowski
- April 14, 2009
- Scientific-journal group Nature, long a staple of academia, moves into the cloud with an online database research site called Scitable. Designed to be used by both students and educators, the collaborative-based site will face competition from Google's Knol and Wikipedia in the online-research category.
Converge
By: Tanya Roscorla
- July 24, 2009
- Teachers spend a lot of time giving students information, but they don't always show them how to gather or apply it. And that's one of the reasons many people in the general population don't know a lot about science.
Chris Brogan
By: Chris Brogan
- July 23, 2009
- I just checked out Scitable and think it's yet another cool velvet rope social network just like yesterday's Black Box Republic post, only where Sam Lawrence and team want to make the sex-positive world feel safe, Vikram Savkar, Nature Education's publishing director, wants the folks doing big work in genetics to feel comfortable.
ReadWriteWeb
By: Dana Oshiro
- July 21, 2009
- Scitable: Geared towards advanced high school and college science students, Nature Education launched Scitable to provide free online access to more than 180 overviews of key scientific and genetics concepts. The tool consists of a 220-article content library (often cited from members of the Nature Publishing group, more than 200 virtual classrooms set up by teachers across the globe, and a mentor network of experts poised to answer student questions. Educators and students can upload their own content for exploration and discussion, while the content library provides a number of articles accepted as valid sources at the university level.
The Boston Globe
By: Christopher Shea
- July 21, 2009
- Look who's jumping on the social-networking bandwagon: none other than the Nature Publishing Group, the 140-year-old British company best-known for its flagship science journal, Nature. The online venture is called Scitable, and it's being run by a Cambridge-based team, Nature Education. (Near Kendall Square, not Cambridge U.)
USA Today
By: Dan Vergano
- July 20, 2009
- Is our children learning? Bad grammar, but still a good question.
Telegraph.co.uk
By: Basheera Khan
- July 08, 2009
- In January, one of the most respected publishers in the world launched a website that's captured the momentum of our rapidly changing media and education sectors so brilliantly that it makes my head swim just to think about it.
Businessweek.com
By: Damian Joseph
- July 01, 2009
- I spoke with Vikram Savkar, senior vp and publishing director of Nature Eduction. He's also the head at Scitable.com, a Web site that mixes elements of crowdsourcing, social media, and peer-reviewed science for educational purposes. Though it's free, it's not non-profit. The site is part of a plan by Nature Publishing Group, which has been publishing scientific journals for 140 years, to extend its reach to the college-aged crowd.
About.com
By: Regina Bailey
- June 19, 2009
- For those who love the science journal Nature for its ability to make important research information and scientific advances understandable to the general public, I have some good news. The science publisher, Nature Publishing Group, has created an online science library known as Scitable. The information you will find there mostly focuses on genetics and is intended for students, teachers, professionals and those interested in scientific developments.
Examiner.com
By: Trina Hoaks
- June 06, 2009
- It has been a concern for some time... the US isn't producing enough science college graduates. But a new Web site, Scitable, which is "a collaborative learning space for science," has been designed to change that by addressing some of the factors that lead to this problem.
MSN
By: Christine Couch
- May 28, 2009
- As cash-strapped college students struggle to finance their tuition, many are wondering if they might find a better alternative in Ivy League courses that have recently become available online, anytime, and completely free.
Scienceblogs.com
By: Razib
- May 28, 2009
- Scitable currently concentrates on genetics, the study of evolution, variation, and the rich complexity of living organisms. As you cultivate your understanding of modern genetics on Scitable, you will explore not only what we know about genetics and the ways it impacts our society, but also the data and evidence that supports our knowledge.
Wired
By: Matt Blum
- May 27, 2009
- There are lots of places to find information online, the problem is how to gauge the reliability of the information you find. I like Wikipedia as much as anyone, but the grain of salt its openness requires can lend the information a bad taste. Now, at least when it comes to the life sciences, there's a new, free resource that's about as reliable as you could want. Nature Publishing Group, which publishes the highly-regarded international scientific journal Nature, is branching out into education with a website called Scitable
ZDNet
By: Christopher Dawson
- May 03, 2009
- Regular readers will know that I'm actually a pretty big fan of Wikipedia. I think it has as much, if not more of a place in student research than actual encyclopedias did for us Gen-Xers when we were younger: it's a starting point and a great source of background information. It's a nice source for quick answers, too, many of which, despite being crowd-sourced, are reliable, well-cited, and accurate.
Ars Technica
By: John Timmer
- April 22, 2009
- When college students are stumped on their classwork, where do they turn? Most of the time, not to their textbooks, according to a survey performed at the behest of Nature Publishing Group. According to Vikram Savkar, who heads the group's Nature Education effort, 80 percent of the time, the students do what the rest of us do: look to Google, and often on from there to Wikipedia. Nature Education is an effort to change that and, in the process, provide a better science education experience.
FastCompany.com
By: Lena L. West
- April 15, 2009
- I'm always interested in how companies that don't have an obvious connection with social media are using these tools to create online destinations that work for them and work for their market.
eCampus News
By: Dennis Carter
- April 10, 2009
- Free scholarly material is becoming more available on the internet, and a new web site offers hundreds of free, peer-reviewed articles to college students, including those with non-scientific academic focuses.
Mass High Tech
By: Galen Moore
- April 03, 2009
- The publishers of the science journal Nature have established a Cambridge-based social media division, publishing a website for students, professors, researchers and writers, focused around original science education content and selected articles from the prestigious London-based journal.
- March 17, 2009
- If you have an interest in science, or specifically in genetics, you can always turn to scientific journals and publications for information. But if you're looking for reference material or an opportunity to connect with researchers and scientists in the field, Scitable can help.
BoingBoing
By: Cory Doctorow
- January 15, 2009
- David Weinberger sez, "Nature Magazine, which should be the stodgiest of the stodgiest, continues to show an admirable willingness to experiment (stopping short of doing the full open access Monty). It's now created Scitable, 'a collaborative learning space for science undergraduates.' It's got articles, online class tools, teacher collaborative tools, student collaborative tools, discussion areas... This initial implementation focuses on genetics, although Nature is planning on expanding the topics. On top of all that, it's great to contemplate how blasé we've become about the primordial value of collaborative tools. Collaboration is the new greed."
- January 08, 2009
- Nature Education has launched Scitable, a free, online educational resource for undergraduate biology students and educators. Currently focused on genetics, Scitable combines authoritative scientific information with social media functionality. Scitable is the first product launch from Nature Education, a division of Nature Publishing Group formed in January 2007 to develop innovative education resources and tools for college science students and educators. Nature Education plans to expand the service to other subject areas in the future.
Business World
By: P. Hari
- October 24, 2008
- The process of formal higher education has changed little over the past century. Students sign up for a course and attend lectures in a classroom. They read textbooks and do assignments, and then finally write an examination. This process has worked well for a long time, but is now falling behind as new knowledge is being created rapidly. Textbooks, the primary learning tool for students, are updated only once in a few years and are not keeping up with the pace of research.
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