The latest new website in a week of new launches hectic even by the standards of Nature Publishing Group is a social site called Scintilla. Alf Eaton, who with Euan Adie in NPG’s web publishing division created the site, explains all at the above-linked post at Nascent. Briefly, Scintilla is an aggregator of publication databases, news stories and blogs about science which users can read, rate and recommend to each other. It has its own discussion group here, for people to provide comments and feedback.
Scintilla has been welcomed by several scientist bloggers, including Neil Saunders. Attilla Csordas, who blogs at Partial Immortalization and at The Niche (the Nature Reports Stem Cells blog), having earlier in the week called Nature Publishing Group the Google of science publishing, is now moved to refer to us as “Natureplex”. (Read his initial reactions to Scintilla here.) What next?