The company was headquartered in Redwood City, California[10] (formerly Toronto, Ontario, Canada[5]) and operated Meta Science, a literature discovery platform.[6][7][3]
On October 28, 2021, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative announced the sunset of Meta, with a proposed shutdown date of March 31, 2022.[1]
Features and specifications
Meta includes coverage of the biomedical sciences with real-time updates from PubMed and other sources.[17] The website provides access to over 22 million papers with publication dates as early as the 1800s.[8][9] By sifting through papers and learning from user behavior, the service pinpoints key pieces of research and provides relevant search results.[6] Meta also provides visualizations about a field of research by organizing papers by their date of publication and citation count and then presenting the information in a way that allows users to quickly identify key historical papers.[3]
The Meta Science research platform uses algorithms that allow users to sort new publications according to subject matter.[5] Users can subscribe to feeds for areas of research including biology, genes, diseases, genetic disorders, drugs, people, labs & institutes, and journals.[5][4][18]
References
^ abChan Zuckerberg Science Initiative, Meta Transition, retrieved October 28, 2021