New SciDev.Net Website

A new version of the SciDev.Net website has been launched, with a fresh appearance and improved navigation.

The new website also offers some exciting new features to you as a registered user. In particular, these include:

Email updates for specific topics or regions, in Chinese, English, French or Spanish, with summary or full-text options. New commenting facility for expressing your opinion on individual articles.
To make use of these facilities, please visit the website as soon as you can, update your details, and select the new services you would like to use.

New editorial features include:

Topic gateways
The website now has six topic gateways, and over 80 sub-topics, making it easier to find information relating to your interests.

Topic gateways are as follows:

**AGRICULTURE & ENVIRONMENT http://www.scidev.net/agri-env
**CLIMATE CHANGE & ENERGY http://www.scidev.net/climate-energy
**HEALTH http://www.scidev.net/health
**NEW TECHNOLOGIES http://www.scidev.net/newtech
**SCIENCE COMMUNICATION http://www.scidev.net/scicomm
**SCIENCE INNOVATION & POLICY http://www.scidev.net/scipolicy

New language portals
We have introduced comprehensive language portals containing the headlines and brief summaries of all articles posted on the website in Chinese, French and Spanish, as well as English. And we've established a coding system to make it clearer what languages our articles are available in. We are now working towards introducing more Chinese, French and Spanish content.

Commenting on articles & contacting the network
Our new comment facility means you can now express your views on individual articles and respond to (and get in touch with) other users who have commented too.

Searching the website
An improved search function allows you to search by keyword, author, organisation, region, topic and sub-topic.

Sharing articles
You can now quickly and easily share articles with friends and colleagues using not only our existing forwarding service, but also using social bookmarking options such as Del.icio.us, Digg, and Facebook.

Web feeds
Individual RSS feeds are now available to feed selected region or topic related content direct to your website or desktop.