Scientific Fora

There are many excellent fora, websites and institutions for debating the findings and significance of recent scientific discovery and some are listed here.

Bielefeld Academic Search Engine

BASE is one of the world’s most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 240 million documents from more than 8,000 content providers.

Biophysical Journal

Biophysical Journal brings research to the biophysics community while promising scientific excellence, integrity, and transparency. It spans a wide range of subjects and disciplines that provide quantitative insight into fundamental problems at the molecular, cellular, systems, and whole-organism levels.

Galileo Commission

The Galileo Commission is to find ways to expand science so that it can accommodate and explore important human experiences and questions that science, in its present form, is unable to integrate.

Journal of Consciousness, The

The Journal of Consciousness publishes research papers and articles related to the study of the consciousness. Its aim is to provide a forum for the unbiased publication of investigation and exchange of ideas associated with the analysis of the physical and non-physical attributes and abilities of the consciousness, and to deepen our understanding of its multidimensional nature.

JSTOR

JSTOR contains digitized back issues of academic journals books and other primary sources as well as current issues of journals in the humanities and social sciences. It provides full-text searches of almost 2,000 journals.

Knowledge Media Institute

The Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) is an innovation lab at The Open University who are helping to create new technologies, programmes and services that impact our world. KMi’s leading academics and researchers are knowledge engineers and data architects who collaborate with partners across higher education, local government, business and industry. 

OpenAlex: The open catalog to the global research system

Inspired by the ancient Library of Alexandria, OpenAlex is an index of hundreds of millions of interconnected entities across the global research system.

Phenoscience Laboratories

Phenoscience Laboratories: The Emerging Field of Research on the Scientific Process served as a formative meeting for metascience as a discipline.

Researchgate

Researchgate is for those who have detailed questions that cover a range of different specialisms. With 135+ million publication pages, 20+ million researchers and 1+ million questions, everyone ‘can access science’ on this website/

Scientific and Medical Network, The

The Scientific and Medical Network is a forum for transformative learning and change and part of a worldwide contemporary movement for spiritual emergence, bringing together scientists, doctors, psychologists, engineers, philosophers, complementary practitioners and other professionals in a spirit of open and critical enquiry to explore frontier issues at the interfaces between science, consciousness, wellbeing and spirituality.

Semantic Scholar

A research tool for scientific literature publishing abstracts on cutting edge scientific developments