Comments on Science is a free and public user-generated database of scientific comments. Commenting on papers in academic journals is a complicated process, with many steps between an idea for a comment and the appearance of that comment in a (mostly closed-access) publication.
The goal of Comments on Science is to reduce this friction and enable accessible and free scientific communication.<p>About the site:
I decided to build something useful in the month of May and this is what I made. It has a few features like following (users, papers, or comments), tagging, voting, etc. It was a nice exercise in everything from idea generation to deploying on a web server.<p>So, what do you think? Do you have any suggestions on what to improve or which features to add or maybe even remove? I welcome all ideas and please don't be hesitant to criticize, input is input is input.<p>The site is accessible at: http://cos.juretriglav.si
I guess this is it as far as HN is concerned. Not bad for a first run! Thank you revorad and knowledgesale for your suggestions! As a result of your advice I'll implement a follow functionality for tags and see what I can do about integrating the Mendeley API in some way.<p>Even though Comments on Science didn't make it to the front page it was still a very exciting time for me. Today gave me a bit of a boost for future development.<p>I'll be back, ready for prime time.
Hey I am a grad student in theoretical physics and love both your concept and realization. I would love a little bit more elaborated tag system. Please go on!