“ScienceAlerts.com, a Web 2.0 social net­work to dis­cover and share schol­arly con­tent, has announced that the lat­est addi­tion to this nat­ural sci­ences web­site is the Bio­log­i­cal Sci­ences Cat­e­gory. The new Bio­log­i­cal Sci­ences cat­e­gory cur­rently fea­tures 520,658 sto­ries largely derived from 984 sci­en­tific biol­ogy pub­lish­ing sources.

ScienceAlerts.com’s Bio­log­i­cal Sci­ences Cat­e­gory cov­ers life and liv­ing organ­isms, includ­ing their struc­ture, func­tion, growth, ori­gin, genet­ics, and dis­tri­b­u­tion. This cat­e­gory also pro­vides a Bio­log­i­cal Sci­ences RSS feed to stay up to date with the lat­est research in this sci­ence dis­ci­pline. One of the lat­est arti­cles presents the inter­re­la­tion­ship of mycophagous small mam­mals and ecto­my­c­or­rhizal fungi in primeval, dis­turbed and man­aged Cen­tral Euro­pean moun­tain­ous forests.

Besides the Bio­log­i­cal Sci­ences cat­e­gory, ScienceAlerts.com con­tains an Agri­cul­tural Sci­ences Cat­e­gory which the cul­ti­va­tion and pro­duc­tion of crops, rais­ing of live­stock, and post-harvest pro­cess­ing of nat­ural prod­ucts. ScienceAlerts.com’s Envi­ron­men­tal Sci­ences Cat­e­gory cov­ers the exter­nal phys­i­cal con­di­tions affect­ing growth, devel­op­ment, and sur­vival of organ­isms, and their man­age­ment while it’s Forestry Sci­ences Cat­e­gory presents the cul­ti­va­tion, main­te­nance, and devel­op­ment of forests. ScienceAlerts.com’s Geo­graph­i­cal Sci­ences Cat­e­gory cov­ers the phys­i­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics of the earth includ­ing its sur­face fea­tures, and the dis­tri­b­u­tion of life on earth, and that of the Health Sci­ences aggre­gates the effects of dis­ease and med­ical treat­ment on the over­all con­di­tion of organisms.

ScienceAlerts.com’s review process is partly auto­mated and partly man­ual to rig­or­ously ensure that only rel­e­vant con­tent is fea­tured on the site. Since new sci­ence con­tent is dis­cov­ered in real-time, the delay between orig­i­nal pub­li­ca­tion and appear­ance at ScienceAlerts.com is usu­ally only min­utes. ScienceAlerts.com includes a search fea­ture to retrieve spe­cific titles or key­words from its’ large data­base. In addi­tion, it sug­gests up to ten related arti­cles for each arti­cle selected.”

Source:  Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, April 6, 2012