Social Scholarship

"Social collaboration refers to processes that help multiple people or groups interact and share information to achieve common goals. Such processes find their 'natural' environment on the Internet, where collaboration and social dissemination of information are made easier by current innovations and the proliferation of the web.

Sharing concepts on a digital collaboration environment often facilitates a "brainstorming" process, where new ideas may emerge due to the varied contributions of individuals. These individuals may hail from different walks of life, different cultures and different age groups, their diverse thought processes help in adding new dimensions to ideas, dimensions that previously may have been missed. A crucial concept behind social collaboration is that 'ideas are everywhere.' Individuals are able to share their ideas in an unrestricted environment as anyone can get involved and the discussion is not limited to only those who have domain knowledge." (Wikipedia)

Discipline specific scholarship

H-Net. Humanities & Social Sciences Online. An international consortium of scholars and teachers, H-Net creates and coordinates Internet networks with the common objective of advancing teaching and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. 

Loop. The open science research network

Vivo. The network of scientists will facilitate scholarly discovery. Institutions will participate in the network by installing VIVO, or by providing semantic web-compliant data to the network 

Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research. 

Zotero lets you co-write a paper with a colleague, distribute course materials to students, or build a collaborative bibliography. You can share a Zotero library with as many people you like, at no cost. 

Data preparation consumes much of a methodologist’s time (Glaser, 2009). In fact, the activity can sometimes detract from the research itself. The time devoted to work analysis and research testing is encroached on by the act of ensuring the accuracy and accessibility of information. In some cases, data preparation even removes members of the research team from their actual jobs.

While data is indeed one of the most—arguably the most—important parts of the research process, there is absolutely no need to dwell on data consolidation more than necessary. Handling research data is, thus imperative to the continuity and veracity of research work.

To that end, research data management (RDM) is a discipline concerned with making data—generated in the course of research—to be accessed as easily as possible by peers, contributors, and readers. This article plans to outline what it is, what it can do, and how to make an effective RDM plan. (Research.com)

Acadedmia.edu is a platform for academics to share research papers. 

ResearchGate was built for scientists, by scientists,with the idea that science can do more when it's driven by collaboration.

gettheresearch. An academic search engine for people outside academia. 

Omeka provides web publishing platforms for sharing digital collections and creating media-rich online exhibits. 

PressForward is a free plugin that provides an editorial workflow for content aggregation and curation within the WordPress dashboard.