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# Communities

Attest  •  Verify  •  Badge

Communities can set up their own environments that support and highlight different aspects of research, according to their own interests. You can become part of a community, or submit your work to them to get it verified according to their choice of attestations. 

You will be able to check out and subscribe to certain Nodes curation communities, that will present a selection of their favourite nodes, curated according to their own principles. 

For example: Nodes that use particularly FAIR data, high quality Node publications in a particular field, or Node publications that have particularly interesting new ideas that challenge the status-quo, or a combination of these. 

These will be shown on the Explore page - giving you the option to browse Explore according to your interests.<br>

More on this is found in the [Validate and Curate](/community/community-curation.md) section of the guidebook.

<figure><img src="https://3561840309-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FMYxRLCpbB6u9NiTwuU16%2Fuploads%2F2poOZb8IdXg15fLKXfIA%2FExplore_CommunitiesPage_Marked.jpeg?alt=media&amp;token=0900890e-6afa-470d-badb-267233a62141" alt=""><figcaption><p>Find the Browse by Community tab in the Explore page.</p></figcaption></figure>

Nodes together with communities will develop the opportunity for communities, businesses and individuals to set up their own curated collections of Node publications - similar to a journal or other format.&#x20;

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Communities and community attestations
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<figure><img src="https://3561840309-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FMYxRLCpbB6u9NiTwuU16%2Fuploads%2FkcXSibv6CaXGjSYKAp6c%2FScreenshot%202024-01-17%20at%2017.09.10.jpg?alt=media&amp;token=7ed9d768-a4fc-42f3-a881-d19dc940f644" alt=""><figcaption><p>Example of a community page</p></figcaption></figure>

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NB: This part of our remit is under development. Please get in touch with us at <help@desci.com> if you want to know more.
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