I’ve written many posts about community sites created for scientists and medical professionals, but I do not really prefer any of them as they are quite similarly constructed. Labmeeting will be the first service I plan to use actively. Why?

Upload research articles

• Automatically match them to bibliographic records for reference management
• Search the full text of all your PDFs
• Mark them for fast retrieval and viewing
• Recommend them to your colleagues

Browse different streams of new papers

• Stay up to date on what’s in the top journals
• Get notified about papers relevant to your research
• Collect the articles that interest you

Manage a lab webspace

• Post articles for journal club
• Share protocols and data in a group notebook
• Ask questions, give answers, and schedule events