A Guide to Scientific Crowdfunding

PLoS Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Vachelard, Julien ^a,b   Gambarra Soares, Thaise ^a,b,c   Augustini, Gabriela ^d   Riul, Pablo ^e   Maracaja Coutinho, Vinicius ^a,b,f,g  

^a Beagle Bioinformatics   (Chile)

^b Dodo Funding   (Chile)

^c PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^d Olabi Makerspace   (Brazil)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARAÍBA   (Brazil)

^f UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR   (Chile)

^g Instituto Vandique   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAREER; FUNDING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; SCIENTIST; STUDENT; CROWDSOURCING; ECONOMICS; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; RESEARCH; SOCIAL MEDIA;

COMMUNICATION; CROWDSOURCING; RESEARCH; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84959543541     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1002373     Document Type: Article

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