hit it!

What is hit it?

You are a research scholar or a project trainee working at a prestigious research institute, and one day you discover a wonderful research article on the internet relating to your research. You save the webpage on your home computer. Or may be you bookmark (or add to favorites) the article on your web browser on your system. You find more articles/news/protocols, etc, all of great interest and importance to you and your current area of research. You go on saving or bookmarking them as you find them day after day. Fine! No problems!

Some days later. You are in your lab making preparations for an important experiment. Suddenly your guide asks for that wonderful research article you had found some days back! The article is stored on your home computer. You start to look for that on the internet on your lab computer. You search. But could not find that. You search and search more, but unfortunately could not find that. Finally, after several desperate attempts, you give up and tell your guide that you will bring the article the next day. An embarassing situation, perhaps. This might have happened with many of you at some point of time, or might happen in the future.

You feel that all your research articles/protocols/news/references, etc, that you have collected from the internet should be stored in such a way (besides a pen drive or CD) that you could easily access them from any computer with an internet connection.

Now, drawing inspiration from Digg and other social bookmarking services like del.icio.us, reddit, ma.gnolia, furl, etc we are also planning to launch a service exclusively aimed towards molecular biology and biotechnology scholars/professionals. With this service you could save all your important research articles/references/news/protocols, etc at one place. To use this service you will need to register yourself, which will take only 5 mins, and create a user acoount for yourself. With this user account you could log in to hit it and start submitting the content you liked on the internet. The links you submit will be safely stored and could be accessed by you when you login to hit it.

The service will be made available very soon!