microBEnet: Lessons Learned from Building an Interdisciplinary Scientific Community in the Online Sphere

Holly M Bik, David A Coil and Jonathan A Eisen

PLOS Biology, 2014, vol. 12, issue 6, 1-4

Abstract: The Microbiology of the Built Environment Network (microBEnet) has served as an experiment in online community building. Here we discuss strategies used to launch a new, interdisciplinary scientific field, and their implications.

Date: 2014
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