2collab was a scientific social network launched by

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in November 2007 and discontinued on 15 April 2011. 2collab was an online collaborative research tool that enabled researchers to share bookmarks,

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or any linked materials with their peers and colleagues. Users could share,

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and discuss resources either in private groups or openly with the wider

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. Through the integration of 2collab into other scientific platforms such as

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and

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researchers were enabled to transport not only the bookmark but also the

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data of research papers into their accounts. Especially when they were the author of these bookmarked documents they could create an easy-to-use list and share it with others in their field of expertise and start a conversation. Users could organize the wide breadth of information online by choosing tags that turn the vast amount of information into navigational structure that is called a

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also known as user generated content. 2collab shut down its service on April 15, 2011.

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* {{official website, http://www.2collab.com/
Inside Scientific Computing World "Elsevier 2collab"Information Age "Web 2.0 in Business"
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