ResearchGate

“Even Napoleon had his Watergate.” -- Yogi Berra quotes (American professional Baseball Player and Manager. b.1925)

As a college student during the notorious Watergate scandal, I was outraged by the arrogance of power displayed by certain men at the top of the political pyramid. At the same time, I was encouraged to see that men and women of principle still existed. Likewise, I am encouraged by a site like ResearchGate (www.researchgate.net). It makes me think the Internet still has more to offer than entertainment and infomercials.

Part social network, part search engine, the ResearchGate Web describes itself as follows …

“The vision of Science 2.0 is promising: Communication between scientists will accelerate the distribution of new knowledge. Without anonymous review processes, the concept of open-access journals will assure research quality. Science is collaboration, so scientific social networks will facilitate and improve the way scientists collaborate. Cooperation on scientific publications can be facilitated through Wiki-like concepts.

“Science 2.0's concepts will have to be developed with the science community. Change will happen. The question is just when and how.

“ResearchGATE is an essential part of the Science 2.0 community and will evolve with it.”

Even if you are skeptical of joining another social network, you should bookmark this site. It offers another way to search across a number of databases for journal articles pertaining to your topic.

For example, here are few of the results from a search on "dibenzothiophene"

Desulfurization of Dibenzothiophene and Oxidized Dibenzothiophene Ring Systems
Authors: Diego P. Morales, Alexander S. Taylor, Steven C. Farmer
Molecules. 01/2010;
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...RIPI-S81 is a new dibenzothiophene (DBT)-desulfurizing bacterium, which was isolated by Research Institute of Petroleum Industry in Iran. Resting cells and growing cells of RIPI-S81 was able to convert alkylated dibenzothiophenes (Cx-DBTs) to hydroxybiphenyls such that they were almost...
Desulfurization of dibenzothiophene and oxidized dibenzothiophene ring systems
Authors: Diego P Morales, Alexander S Taylor, Steven C Farmer
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland). 01/2010; 15(3):1265-9.
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Analysis of the dibenzothiophene metabolic pathway in a newly isolated Rhodococcus spp
Authors: Nasrin Akhtar, Muhammad A Ghauri, Munir A Anwar, Kalsoom Akhtar
FEMS microbiology letters. 09/2009;
...characteristics were screened for their dibenzothiophene-desulphurizing activity. A single isolate... dibenzothiophene-desulphurizing activity. This isolate metabolized dibenzothiophene to 2-hydroxybiphenyl (2-HBP... for the partial sequence of the 16S rRNA gene. Isolate Eu-32 could desulphurize 0.2 mM dibenzothiophene to 2-HBP...
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Co(Ni)/MoS2 nanostructured catalysts for the hydrodesulphurization of dibenzothiophene
Authors: M A Albiter, R Huirache-Acuña, F Paraguay-Delgado, F Zaera, G Alonso-Núñez
Journal of nanoscience and nanotech.... 01/2009; 8(12):6437-44.
...) of dibenzothiophene (DBT). It was found that these materials presented specific surface areas below 25...
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