KLEENK - Spread your research results: One year of Kleenk and a new way of spreading your research results

“It's been exactly one year since our first launch, on 31st May 2011. Back then we had a different name ‘KontentLinks’ and we were just at the beginning of an exciting journey. One year later, we're relaunching again, with a new mission, more focused on what we think is the biggest problem in the research community: spreading our research results.  Although nowadays there are a lot of platforms that allow people to share content, the research community has been very slow adopting Web 2.0 tools. Mendeley, Academia.edu and ResearchGate are the leading platforms in the field and they're doing a very good job. However, we think there's one thing that's constantly missing: the focus on the connections between the research works. Citations are the base for evaluating research results and although this is starting to change (i.e. altmetrics) there's no equivalent in the online space. We believe that researchers should be able to easily connect two pieces of research, creating a web of interconnected research results that can be explored by everybody, and ultimately be used for spreading new research results. And that's how Kleenk was born, a kleenk being simply a semantic connection between two scientific works which can be enriched with more details and evaluated and commented by the community...”