Michael

Thank you for your very interesting and charming letter below. You sound like an extremely accomplished person and an enterprising, promising young scientist. I have read your review on GoPubMed and concur in your enthusiasm about it. It has been blogged about by medical librarians, but it does need to need to be better known in that profession. And I agree with you that the members of the brilliant team behind it, such as Dr. Michael Alvers, are generous with their time and very open to input from users of their remarkable tool.

Here is a new site my editor has told me about. I hope to review it. But as you are such a delightful person, you get an advanced peek:

http://www.sciencestage.com/

Keep up the excellent work you are doing in your very important field. Italy and Turkey must be fascinating places to work in. Italy seems to produce scientists who excel at work on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and I know that when I am looking for articles on pediatric matters, some of the best work seems to come out of Turkey.

Hope

Honestly I do not have any idea about the patents.com, however during my PhD I worked with GoPubMed. One of the scientists,my closed friend, working on development of this search engine as a predoctoral researcher in Germany introduced me.I would say that this search engine from the typing the correct key word to the searching real expert in your area is screaming be expert,be expert,know what you are searching! When my friend,Dimitra Alexapoulou, set up first test with this search machine, one of the tester failed. He wanted to search neural differentiation from embryonic stem cells, and just one surface key word which is not reflecting the major topic, complex structures can come and you can lose the hot-spots. As for scientific and social networking system, I prefer also integrated solutions in one platform. One shot is to catch the topic and find the experts,another shot to be online with them, at least with their group members. Considering some critical emails are being send to them as spam, at the serious scientific platforms many communications can be possible. I am the editor of European Embryonic Stem Cell Organization as well as Postdoctoral Researcher in Italy and newly In vitro Fertilization researcher in Turkey. Every six months, in ESTools magazine we are writing important developments in research to inform the scientific and public society. In the second issue I wrote a letter about GoPubMed reflecting its work mechanism and aims in Biomedical Research.I am attaching here. http://www.estools.org/estools/news/latest/newsletter-issue-2
Best Regards,
Senem Simsek,PhD