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The Financial Times
By: David Gelles
- May 23, 2011
- Thick university textbooks can cost hundreds of dollars each, burdening students with expensive tomes rendered virtually worthless after just one semester. But on Tuesday, Nature Publishing, a prominent science publisher, will unveil a digital textbook with a new pricing model that could upend the multibillion-dollar educational publishing market.
The Scientist
By: Richard P. Grant
- April 13, 2011
- What if somebody took primary research papers, and used the experiments described in them to create teaching materials suitable for high school or college students? That's what Vikram Savkar, at Nature Education in Cambridge, Mass., has done with Scitable. Scitable is designed to be a set of materials and tools for teaching, currently concentrating on genetics and cell biology, but with plans to expand into other areas of life science.
Education Week
By: Michelle R. Davis
- March 16, 2011
- "The kind of personalization that is valuable in education is not complete and total personalization, which would be pandering," says Vikram Savkar, a senior vice president and publishing director at the New York City-based Nature Publishing Group, which has created an online science-based social-networking site called Scitable. The site allows students to discuss scientific topics and connect with researchers.
Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News
By: Mary Ann Liebert
- March 1, 2011
- The people at Nature Publishing Group are very clever. What better way to attract literature-obsessed scientists to your website than to call the site "citable"?
HuffPost
By: Audrey Watters
- February 17, 2011
- The direction taken by the science education site Scitable, for example, an online learning space that's part of the educational wing of the global science publisher of Nature. Scitable offers a library of science education resources -- all free, peer-reviewed, and updated every other month or so -- as well as a community of students, educators, and scientists.
Twit.TV
By: Kristin Sanford
- February 10, 2011
- A look at Scitable, a collaborative learning space for students of science, and more. Guests: Vikram Savkar, Vice President and Publishing Director of Scitable
KQED - MindShift
By: Tina Barseghian
- February 4, 2011
- Following in the steps of Wikipedia -- and the collaborative world of Web 2.0 -- a growing proliferation of open-source sites aimed at education have sprouted up over the past few years. For both K-12 schools and higher education, sites like MIT Open SourceWare that publishes almost all the university's content for students, Open Educational Resources, Curriki, Merlot, Connexions, CK12, Scitable, and Hippocampus offer their own expert-written, vetted content. But more importantly, they allow educators and students to add, edit, and change the order of all the information on those sites according to their own needs.
Columbia Journalism Review
By: Christine Russell
- February 3, 2011
- If you're worried about the future of science journalism, take solace in two fourteen-year-old students named Sam and Naseem who are passionate about science and writing, and hope to combine the two. They are the first high-school bloggers to join Scitable, a teaching and learning website from the Nature Publishing Group.
Staten Island Live
By: Diane Lore
- February 3, 2011
- Four freshmen at Staten Island Academy have been selected to write blogs for Nature Education, the educational arm of Nature Publishing Group, with its online educational resource, "Scitable." They are the first high school students selected to blog for the widely-respected Web source on nature and science.
KQED - QUEST
By: Dr. Barry Starr
- February 3, 2011
- A really interesting project called Scitable recently came to my attention. This site is sponsored by the same folks who publish Scientific American, Nature, and many other scientific journals and magazines. It is intended to provide students, teachers, professors and the public with easy to read, understandable materials about science.
TechCrunch
By: Scott Merrill
- January 26, 2011
- Scitable, Nature Publishing Group's free online science library. Although limited in scope to genetics, cell biology and ecology, they've been growing since last we covered them, with many new articles as well as a new guide to life science careers and English Communication for Scientists. The latter, alone, should be worth your time today.
BetaNews
By: Tim Conneally
- January 26, 2011
- Nature Education has been encouraging the extracurricular study of science with its free service Scitable since early 2009. The service is an online science education community strengthened by free scientific journal articles from the Nature Publishing Group.
GM Education
By: Molly Keene
- January 21, 2011
- Scitable is about one thing - science. Specifically, it focuses on cell biology and genetics, though it has sections devoted to scientific communication and career planning (with regard to the sciences). Scitable is an offshoot of Nature Education (which is a division of Nature Publishing Group), and it is specifically a place to collaborate and share science-related information.
Mashable
By: Sarah Kessler
- December 16, 2010
- Scitable is both the Nature Publishing Group's free science library and a social network. Teachers can create a "classroom" with a customized reading list, threaded discussions, news feeds and research tools. There's also an option to use the material on the site to create a customized e-book for free that can include any of the more than 500 videos, podcasts or articles on the site. Topic rooms combine articles, discussions and groups related to one key concept in science and make it easy to find material that is relevant to your class and connect with people who are also passionate about the subject.
Ars Technica
By: John Timmer
- December 12, 2010
- About a year and a half ago, we reported on a Nature venture that was a bit far afield from its general focus on scientific publishing. Scitable aims to provide online, open access educational materials in the sciences. Anyone can browse the content or follow predefined courses, currently limited to the life sciences. But one thing that you won't generally spot is ads. Can a resource like this stay free indefinitely? It seems like a lot of scientific publishers are betting that it can, since a number of other free services have launched in the intervening time.
Chronicle of Higher Education
By: Kevin Carey
- December 10, 2010
- A couple of weeks ago I noted that the number of college students taking online courses is on one of those steadily rising trajectories that are invariably under-remarked-upon even as they fundamentally change the world in which we live. It's also worth noting that formal online coursetaking doesn't represent the full extent of how information technology is changing higher education. Take, for example, Scitable.
Business Insider
By: Evan Britton
- November 24, 2010
- The most comprehensive resource on the Web for genetics and evolution. Scitable is a free online library which is edited by a wide variety of specialists for the respective topics.
New York Times - The Learning Network
By: Jennifer Cutraro and Holly Epstein Ojalvo
- November 18, 2010
- The New York Times included Scitable as part of a learning roundup on how to study cell structures.
WCBS Radio
By: Paul Murnane
- October 27, 2010
- Paul Murnane of WCBS Radio's Dishin' Digital discusses how the Commander-in-Chief is also the Cheerleader-in-Chief for young scientists, and about how Nature Education is supporting the cause.
BizBox by Slate
By: Steve Viuker
- October 20, 2010
- Scitable, a foray by the Nature Publishing Group into online science education, is a collaborative online learning space.
BBC News
By: Maggie Shiels
- October 13, 2010
- One of many groups also trying to elevate science is Nature Publishing Group, the publisher behind Scientific American and Nature magazines. It has launched Scitable, a social network for science research and education.
Detroit News
By: Tim Devaney
- October 9, 2010
- "In the future, we're going to see a lot of learning shifting to phones," said Vikram Savkar, senior vice president for Scitable, part of London-based Nature Publishing Group that operates a free mobile science library. "As we know, students are online. That movement can't be stopped."
Washington Post
By: Joel Achenblog
- September 29, 2010
- Scitable is aimed primarily at college and high school classrooms, but it's also widely used by parents of younger students and other people from all walks of life who want to develop a substantive understanding of science.... People can go as deep as their level of learning and curiosity takes them.
ReadWriteWeb
By: Audrey Watters
- September 11, 2010
- Over 40% of undergraduates who start their college careers as prospective science majors have changed their minds by the time they graduate, switching their majors to a non-science degree. According to Vikram Savkar, the Senior Vice President of the science education site Scitable, it's imperative we address that high attrition rate as there is a global shortage of scientists, a serious problem considering many of the challenges we face now and in coming years that require scientific research and discovery.
Boston Globe
By: Christopher Shea
- September 10, 2010
- Scitable, a foray by the Nature Publishing Group into online science education, recently got some new local backers. Cambridge-based Alnylam Pharmaceuticals and New England Biolabs, of Ipswich, are among the companies that have agreed to help sponsor the site, which Nature Education describes as a "collaborative online learning space."
Forbes
By: Oliver Chiang
- September 2, 2010
- It's no secret that these days, science just isn't as popular a career track as in the past. The decline of U.S. STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) research and education is even one of the issues the Obama administration has vowed to tackle. Among attempts from the private sector to tackle science's future brain drain -- as students flock to other majors and careers -- a social science network called Scitable looks like it holds promise.
BetaNews
By: Tim Conneally
- August 28, 2010
- As school districts across the country open their doors for the 2010-2011 school year, a remarkable shift in thought is taking place: cell phones, once regarded as distractions or liabilities are coming to be viewed as viable learning tools.
ZDNet
By: Christopher Dawson
- August 26, 2010
- Shmoop, an extensive collection of online materials that aims to draw modern, relevant connections to challenging academic content, and Scitable, the open-access science library from the Nature Publishing Group, both announced mobile content this week to easily reach a broader cross-section of students.
The Loop
By: Jim Dalrymple
- August 27, 2010
- Nature Publishing this week took a huge step forward, making its collaborative learning website, Scitable, mobile friendly.
The Next Web
By: Brad McCarty
- August 27, 2010
- At the beginning of August, we went out on a limb and told you about a social network named Scitable. The going on a limb part was because it's a very niche site that caters primarily to those interested in science. Little did we know how well it would be received.
TMCNet
By: Deepika Mala
- August 26, 2010
- The mobile version of the open-access science library Scitable has been launched by Nature Education, the educational wing of global science publisher Nature Publishing Group.
Mobile Content Today
By: Frank McPherson
- August 25, 2010
- One of the things I like to do with my mobile phones is read when I have a few moments. I may check up on my friends in Facebook, see what is happening on Twitter, or check a few web sites to get the latest news. Thanks to Nature Education, I can grow my science knowledge by browsing the Scitable mobile site at www.nature.com/scitable.
The Scientist
- August 25, 2010
- Scitable is an initiative from Nature Publishing Group, providing teaching materials written by scientists and collaborative tools to students all over the world�??an open access science library, if you like. Today, Nature Education announced a mobile version of Scitable, making the site accessible to a broad range of mobile devices, including the iPad, Android, Blackberry, and basic feature phones.
- August 24, 2010
- Nature Education -- the educational arm of Nature Publishing Group -- launched a mobile version of its open-access science library Scitable today -- bringing its extensive library of science articles and social networking features to any student, teacher, or researcher with a mobile device.
MobileWhack
By: Mark Rollins
- August 24, 2010
- I don't know if you are familiar with Scitable.com, but it is essentially a social network for science education from the Nature Publishing Group.
T.H.E. Journal
By: David Nagel
- August 24, 2010
- Nature Education--a unit of Nature Publishing Group, which puts out Scientific American and the journal Nature--has released a new mobile version of Scitable, a free learning tool for high school and post-secondary science.
TechCrunch
By: Scott Merrill
- August 24, 2010
- We covered Scitable.com, the social network for science education from Nature Publishing Group, back in May. At that time, I was told that a mobile-friendly version of the site was in the works. Today that mobile site is ready, as seen in the screenshot above.
- August 24, 2010
- Nature Education -- the educational arm of Nature Publishing Group -- launched a mobile version of its open-access science library Scitable today --bringing its extensive library of science articles and social networking features to any student, teacher, or researcher with a mobile device.
VentureBeat
By: | Devindra Hardawar
- August 24, 2010
- Nature Education, the educational arm of Nature Publishing Group, launched a mobile version of its open-access science library Scitable today, bringing its extensive library of science articles and social networking features to any student, teacher, or researcher with a mobile device.
Social Times
By: Lauren Dugan
- August 20, 2010
- Education is increasingly becoming digital, using social networks, videos and collaborative online tools to enhance the learning experience. One of the largest online social education communities is Scitable. A hybrid between a virtual classroom, a social network and a scientific journal repository, Scitable boasts several hundreds of thousand users around the world. We recently got to speak with Vikram Savkar, SVP and Publishing Director at Nature Publishing, about what Scitable is, what it offers to students, and the future of social education
BetaNews
By: Tim Conneally
- August 20, 2010
- I experienced quite a personal shock when I aged out of having access to my university's research portal. The vast catalog of peer-reviewed journals, empirical studies, and thorough analytical research I had at my disposal as a student was boarded up behind a distinct paywall not long after I finished school.
News10.net
By: Barry White
- August 19, 2010
- There's a new educational resource on the Internet these days. It's called Scitable and it's a journal-quality science library that, similar to Wikipedia, is peer-reviewed and free to use.
TMCNet
By: Tom Keating
- August 19, 2010
- Scitable is an offshoot of Nature Publishing Group, which is the publisher of Nature, Scientific American and about 70 other magazines. I interviewed Vikram Savkar, Scitable's SVP of publishing to learn more about Scitable and how this online social network is changing the face of learning in the scientific community.
CNET
By: Caroline McCarthy
- August 16, 2010
- Not too long ago, the golden rules for high school and college students turning to the Web as a research tool were simple: treat digital content that's never been in print with suspicion. Be careful what you Google. And thou shalt not touch Wikipedia.
Fast Company
By: Addy Dugdale
- August 10, 2010
- Technology brings us all kinds of advances in the world of education: as well as the basic software stuff, such as B&N's NookStudy, there's Nature Publishing's social media-savvy Scitable. And then you move along to how stuff such as the iPad and iPhone is helping the newest generations, while the Internet is improving the undergraduate experience (just ask Mark Zuckerberg). And then you come to Ultrinsic, and you think, college kids and gambling, now why didn't anyone else think of that?
- August 9, 2010
- We recently learned of Scitable, a collaborative learning space for the scientific community. Scitable is essentially a free science library and personal learning tool developed by Nature Publishing Group, a leading science publisher. Scitable's peer-reviewed content library and ongoing dialogue are fueled by thousands of users in the scientific community, including researchers, educators, students and of course, scientists. Scitable currently concentrates on genetics, the study of evolution, variation and biology (the complexity of living organisms).
TheNextWeb
By: Brad McCarty
- August 2, 2010
- Nucleic Acid Structure and Function, Population and Quantitative Genetics, Chromosomes and Cytogenetics. If these tickle your fancy, then Scitable is where you need to be
Inside Higher Ed
By: Joshua Kim
- August 1, 2010
- Have you checked out Scitable, a free online teaching/learning portal combining peer reviewed articles and teaching materials with social networking features? Scitable has an interesting funding model, relying on an NPR approach of underwriting as opposed to advertising or subscriptions to pay for the service. Scitable's mission is to spread science literacy, and increase the number of people who choose science as a career, by making high quality science learning resources available online through a robust and flexible platform. High quality science content (including articles, illustrations, and videos) that can be easily integrated into a learning management system (LMS), or utilized as a standalone website.
New York Post
By: William Vitka
- July 13, 2010
- Intel, a household name when it comes to computer technology, has joined Nature Publishing Group in the fight to educate people about science. Specifically, they're working to tackle the seeming indifference of the science community toward education by sponsoring NPG's 'Time To Decide' position paper.
NPR
By: Ursula Goodenough
- June 17, 2010
- I'm personally more drawn to Scitable, both because it's visually pleasing and because it has a search function so I can look up something of particular interest without having to scan through a list. I like that doing a search pulls up articles, images, people who are involved, etc.
LeMonde
By: D'Antoine Blin & Mathilde Serrel
- June 14, 2010
- "Nature" is a venerable institution, dating back 140 years. The authority of the British journal for scientific publications is well established. And yet, she decided to embark on the internet and put in orbit its own social network "Scitable" .
SmartPlanet
By: Dan Nosowitz
- June 7, 2010
- 30% of science students drop out of their science program after their first year in college. It's the worst possible time to have a dearth of scientists' and Scitable is one solution.
Wired
By: Eliot Van Buskirk
- June 6, 2010
- Nature Publishing Group has disseminated information between scientists for over 140 years, starting with the prestigious Nature journal. Now, it hopes to reach out to college and high school students, in part because so many of them lose interest in hard science around that time.
USA Today
By: Dan Vergano
- May 17, 2010
- In a recent Nature Education survey report, "Time to Decide: The Ambivalence of the World of Science Toward Education", 85% of them judged themselves as above average teachers of the 52% of students (more than half) they saw as poorly taught by other instructors.
Mashable
By: Jolie O'Dell
- May 11, 2010
- Rather than resorting to yet another 600-page textbook, next time you're hard up for understanding or inspiration, check out one of these six websites that offer information on the sciences. Scitable is number one.
New York Post
By: William Vitka
- May 7, 2010
- Science -- and America's place in the scientific community -- is critical to our future. Sadly, scientific literacy among Americans is severely lacking. People simply don't know as much as they need to for our country to stay competitive. And we're putting ourselves in a terrible position by allowing (sometimes even encouraging) ignorance. Enter Scitable: a social network whose primary goal is to put all the knowledge of the scientific community in your hands.
TechCrunch
By: Scott Merrill
- May 6, 2010
- Social networks are a dime a dozen. Many of them focus on the social, or the networking, independent of other aspects that might bring people together. It�s no big surprise that many of these social networks fail, or only reach specific niche audiences. As such, it was with a bit of skepticism that I approached Scitable, a social network for science research and education from the folks at Nature Publishing Group. A quick examination of the site reveals a vibrant community of educators and learners. I had the opportunity to speak with Vikram Savkar, SVP & Publishing Director at Nature Publishing Group, who is currently spearheading the Scitable initiative, to learn more about it.
ZDNet
By: Christopher Dawson
- May 6, 2010
- Nature Education (the folks who brought you Scitable) recently released a position paper on science and education and drew some powerful conclusions. EntitledTime to Decide: The Ambivalence of the World of Science Toward Education, the position paper lays out why science education is so fundamentally important to continued development and technological progress and makes it clear that even students with a focus on the liberal arts must have an appropriate depth of understanding in scientific fields
University World News
By: Leah Germain
- May 2, 2010
- Nature Education, an educational division of the London-based Nature Publishing Group, has recently received funding from global partners to develop its free online science library, Scitable.
Ars Technica
By: Kate Shaw
- April 29, 2010
- Recent studies have shown that American students greatly underperform many of their global peers in the science sections of standardized tests. The US has the largest economy in the world and spends a disproportionately large percent of its GDP on scientific research, so why aren't our students excelling in science? The problem may not be purely financial: science programs in both rich and poor nations are not educating students as effectively as they should. A new study from Nature Publishing Group (NPG) suggests that emphasis on research at the expense of teaching at the university level may be partially responsible for the scientific underperformance of advanced students worldwide.
CMS Wire
By: Marisa Peacock
- April 27, 2010
- Scitable is an open online teaching/learning portal, which combines educational articles authored by editors at Nature Publishing Group with technology-based community features, all aimed at helping teachers, librarians and students.
ZDNet
By: Christopher Dawson
- March 30, 2010
- I had a chance to catch up today with Vikram Savkar, Senior Vice President and Publishing Director with the Nature Publishing Group (NPG). We've spoken before about Scitable, their online effort to bring high-quality scientific content to educators and students via the social web. Now that the site is well-established and beginning to expand beyond its initial offerings in genetics, NPG is looking to put the rich resources contained in Scitable into the hands of young people in developing countries, where cell phones have far greater penetration than computer-based Internet access.
Investor's Business Daily
By: Sonja Carberry
- March 12, 2010
- What to do when a new player changes the game? Digital technology forces firms to analyze their playbooks. Their new drills: Add new recruits. With emerging Internet resources elbowing their way into the education field, 140-year-old Nature Publishing Group - a textbook and journal publisher - looked for an assist from subsidiary Nature Education.
SmartPlant.com
By: Christina Hernandez
- March 12, 2010
- Part science library and part social networking site, Scitable is a growing educational website created by the Nature Publishing Group. The current focus of Scitable, which launched in January 2009, is genetics. But it's set to expand in the next few years. In the meantime, thousands of users are logging on to expand their scientific knowledge and make "friends" with some smart people.
AOL: WalletPop
By: Josh Smith
- February 4, 2010
- In a word -- Yes. Thanks to a combination of factors, Scitable, both the science website and the platform itself, has the potential to change the way students learn and, more importantly to students; how much they have to pay for access to up-to-date, credible, high-quality information
Voice of America News
By: Art Chimes
- January 22, 2010
- Time again for our Website of the Week, when we showcase interesting and innovative online destinations. Our web guide is VOA's Art Chimes. This time it's an educational site where you can learn about one of the most fascinating areas of science today � genetics. It's designed for students and for people learning on their own, and it's got tools for making education a collaborative experience.
India Tribune
- December 21, 2009
- Nature Education has launched www.nature.com/scitable, a Web site it describes as a collaborative online learning space for science. What we wanted to do with Scitable is to bring education roundly into the 21st century, to take advantage of all of the tools and technology available today, said Vikram Savkar, publishing director of Nature Education, a division of Britain's Nature Publishing Group. One of our goals is to level the playing field when it comes to science, he said. Most countries in the world see developing a trained workforce and research cadre in science as key to their national development.
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 9, 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 7, 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 5, 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 8, 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 1, 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 6, 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 3, 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 3, 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 8, 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.
