Crowdsourcing & collaboration

 Find platforms that help researchers and those outside academia to come together to perform research and share ideas.

 

AcademicLabs

AcademicLabs

AcademicLabs is a network of research units sharing expertise, services and technologies to facilitate Open Science and Open Innovation. Enable your team to have an overview and be up-to-date on all labs and their activities in your field. Enable easy and inclusive communication with your partner teams.
DHcommons

DHcommons

DHcommons is an online hub focused on matching digital humanities projects seeking assistance with scholars interested in project collaboration. It allows scholars enter the field by joining an existing project as well as make existing projects more sustainable.
Direct2experts

Direct2experts

Direct2experts is a federated national (United States) network of research networks in biomedicine. The network that enables easy access to expertise and related resources in collaboration with participating institutions to ensure access to approved and verified data.
Innocentive

Innocentive

Innocentive helps researchers, academics and organisations to connect with colleagues with shared interests crowdsource solutions from invited audiences working in related fields or in other areas of the world.
Journal of Brief Ideas

Journal of Brief Ideas

Journal of Brief Ideas is a research journal, composed entirely of 'brief ideas'. The goal here is to provide a place for short ideas to be described - in 200 words or less - for these ideas to be archived (courtesy of Zenodo), searchable and citable.
Kolabtree

Kolabtree

Kolabtree is a platform to hire freelance researchers for short-term projects. It gets projects for you to work on to further your research and industry experience. You just set your own rates, negotiate the terms of the project, and use our secure payment system.
LinkNovate

LinkNovate

Linknovate is a data analytics and Competitive Intelligence platform that helps you identify emerging technologies and connect with the key players behind them. It also helps you to identify emerging technologies and the key-players behind them by providing superior technology scouting.
Scholar Universe

Scholar Universe

Scholar Universe is an essential resource for individuals and any organization that needs external expertise. Helps researchers and academics connect with colleagues with shared interests while expanding their networks to include previously unknown people working in related fields or in other areas of the world.
Syneratio

Syneratio

Syneratio is an online knowledge sharing platform. By connecting researchers, students and companies, it helps you to work, collaborate and innovate on a higher level. You can create projects to find collaborative partners and get access to knowledge within or outside your project group.
Thinklab

Thinklab

Thinklab is a platform that brings the world's best minds together to share and discuss ideas. Open Science platform where researchers and commenters can get paid. Thinklab aims to help science funders create incentives for a more Internet-native model of research.

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