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Graduate Junction is an online community connecting postgraduates who have similar academic interests. Graduate Junction aims to break down the interdisciplinary and institutional barriers that exist in academia and connect people based only on the work that they do and the interests that they have. Graduate Junction was founded in 2008 by two postgraduates at Durham University working alongside their own degree projects because they felt isolated in their own fields. When the first version of the Graduate Junction platform was launched it received support from postgraduates and academics alike. It has continued to grow with the community now containing almost 16,000 members. The community has continued to evolve over time with new functions and features added based upon suggestions from the community itself. All functionality added to the site since its launch has been requested by postgraduates. Despite having no external funding or support these changes have been made possible thanks to the time input of postgraduate volunteers, making Graduate Junction an entirely postgraduate-led initiative.

Science-focussed community with features like forums, Q&A, groups, etc. Includes a PhD students' forum. Community, collaboration, exploration/search.

Feedback collection platform. Can be used to gather community input to innovation.

Free professional network for scientists. Has useful tools to help - Connect and Communicate: Interact with fellow researchers and build your scientific network. Share and Collaborate: Post updates, discuss methods and co-edit with colleagues. Discover: Download full-text papers, find conferences and scientific jobs.

ScienceStage is a global, science-oriented multimedia portal that specializes in online video streaming, which is used to support communication between scientists, scholars, researchers in industry, and professionals. It is also used by academics and students as a virtual educational tool. Video content ranges from conference recordings, to interviews, documentaries, webinars, and tutorials. ScienceStage, as its slogan suggests, also functions as a 'hub' by creating a meta-layer that enables the networking of both users (individuals and groups) and content (video, audio, and documents), which forms an integrated multimedia and social networking platform for scientists.

ResearcherID is a global, multi-disciplinary scholarly research community. With a unique identifier assigned to each author in ResearcherID, you can eliminate author misidentification and view an author's citation metrics instantly. Search the registry to find collaborators, review publication lists and explore how research is used around the world.

Collaboration platform designed specifically for researchers in the science, technical and medical communities providing online bookmarking & reference management, groups, networking.

Quora's service allows users to ask questions and give answers. Additionally, users can comment on the questions and answers and "upvote" or "downvote" the answers. An "Answer Summary" can be created to reflect the consensus of the community. This summary is a wiki that can be edited by any registered user.

Nice essay by Brungs & Mcnamara about the importance of research being accessible to the general public and its potential as a catalyst for public debate.

A research tool for those interested in social media.

The Australian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres (ACHRC) is a network for groups engaged in Humanities-based research. Our aim is to connect Humanities researchers and centres, both within the Australasian region and internationally, and to promote relationships with cultural institutions and sector representative bodies in the wider community. We provide a virtual and physical hub for information about research opportunities and events, and seek to strengthen the public profile of research in the Humanities.

An old presentation that has been much-viewed about the benefits of social media use for researchers.

Free service for managing and discovering scholarly references.

Book about designing and implementing social research studies, especially for those in community organisations.

This pulls in feeds from others who blog about peer-reviewed research. Makes it easy for your readers - and others from around the world - to find your serious posts about academic research.

Offers both private and public social networks focussed on medical research scientists.

Some keen researchers could try this at UTS. We'd even be happy to help with a venue in the UTS Library.