Recently posted on Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog by Andrea L. Foster

BiomedExperts.com, a social-networking Web site for health-care and life-science experts, was unveiled today at the American Library Association’s midwinter meeting, in Philadelphia. The site includes profiles of more than 1.4 million biomedical experts in 120 countries. Researchers can gain access to the site for free and search for colleagues based on their areas of expertise, where they live, or other variables. The site also allows scientists to share data and analyses, and view summaries of their colleagues’ research papers.

The site is a collaboration between Collexis Holdings Inc., a Dutch software company, and Dell, a computer manufacturer.