SciLink Blog

We’re down for maintenance this weekend from 4am Sat - 7am Mon. See you next week! 

Our website was updated last night with some exciting new features, changes to the dashboard and general performance enhancements. We’ve also fixed a whole lot of bugs and improved the registration workflow per your feedback.

Improvements:

Profile:

To start, we have completely revamped the profile page, chunking it into small bite sized sections in order to streamline the profile management process. We used over 300 pieces of feedback on that section to inform us of your needs and believe we have delivered a tool that will make filling in your profile faster and easier than ever. Here’s a look at the new profile page.

Claiming your articles has never been easier either. We completely reworked this section of the website and have increased the frequency at which we update our publication databases. Expect to see more exciting improvements and connections to the literature in upcoming releases.

Dashboard:

We have updated the dashboard with a new “news from around the web section” to give you a one stop shop for all your scientific, technical and medical news. We’ll be bringing you news and information from partner sites who will provide exclusive access to invaluable and timely content. We also updated the dashboard with a new 3 column layout which organizes things in a much more intuitive way.

New Features!

Citation Manager:

The SciLink team has been working on a citation manager in stealth mode and are finally ready to release it to you. We are extremely proud to provide you a delicious style citation manager specifically made for scientific citation management. This tool is experimental but in a very usable state. Like delicious, citeulike, connotea and others, SciLink’s citation manager allows you to install a small bit of javascript to post interesting links to your account. What’s even better, is that our manager can recognize whether a you have posted an article and will find and retrieve that article from the web! Finally, you can tag, take notes and share your bookmarks with colleagues. Expect to see even more interesting uses of this tool and small tutorials from us soon.

Profile Widgets and Tree Of Science in syndication:

We have actually allowed users to syndicate their profile since day 1 but did not make this functionality public until today. Take a look at the right side of this blog and you will see a blue box with a brief sketch about me in it. This is the new SciLink profile widget and the admission that SciLink is a full blown development platform! What does this mean to you? If you have a blog, website, wiki etc. that you would like to include your SciLink information all you’ll need to do is drop a small bit of javascript into your page and SciLink will render that information for you. If you are a developer, you can call a SciLink URL and get the information as a JSON object. Look for SciLink widget code that you can place on your own website on the profile section of SciLink in about 1 week.

Tree Of Science:

Want to put the TOS on your own website? Now you can! Again, we’ll be posting details on the SciLink profile page in another week.

Developers: As I wrote before, SciLink is not just a cool website to represent yourself as a scientific professional it’s also a full blown development environment. We will be launching a developers section of the site in 2 weeks with developer documentation, code examples and short demoes of what SciLink can do today. We’re really excited about the possibilities here and can’t wait to engage with you and see what people will do with SciLink information!

Thank You!

I can’t thank you enough for taking part in the SciLink experience. More announcements are on their way. Stay Tuned!

Brian Gilman

Founder

SciLink Inc.