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A post about how Twitter differs from Facebook re networking. This post is from an entrepreneur's perspective, but there are parallels here for researchers and the most agile and adept researchers also use Twitter in much the same way. 

Free professional network for scientists. Has useful tools to help - Connect and Communicate: Interact with fellow researchers and build your scientific network. Share and Collaborate: Post updates, discuss methods and co-edit with colleagues. Discover: Download full-text papers, find conferences and scientific jobs.

A taxonomy for social network sites.

ScienceStage is a global, science-oriented multimedia portal that specializes in online video streaming, which is used to support communication between scientists, scholars, researchers in industry, and professionals. It is also used by academics and students as a virtual educational tool. Video content ranges from conference recordings, to interviews, documentaries, webinars, and tutorials. ScienceStage, as its slogan suggests, also functions as a 'hub' by creating a meta-layer that enables the networking of both users (individuals and groups) and content (video, audio, and documents), which forms an integrated multimedia and social networking platform for scientists.

cademia.edu is a free social networking website and collaboration tool aimed at academics and researchers from all disciplines. Like Facebook or LinkedIn for academics, but not as annoying or distracting. Very focussed on academia. Launched in September 2008, it became one of the largest social networking sites/portals for academics in 2010.

"Early career researchers making their own luck - with help from the internet"

Stay up to date with the lates higher education news (from the UK).

Offers both private and public social networks focussed on medical research scientists.

Science-focussed community with features like forums, Q&A, groups, etc. Includes a PhD students' forum. Community, collaboration, exploration/search.

Collaboration platform designed specifically for researchers in the science, technical and medical communities providing online bookmarking & reference management, groups, networking.

Presentation about the costs of higher education (albeit US costs) and some alternative ways we can assist including more open access, social media and social networks.

The Australian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres (ACHRC) is a network for groups engaged in Humanities-based research. Our aim is to connect Humanities researchers and centres, both within the Australasian region and internationally, and to promote relationships with cultural institutions and sector representative bodies in the wider community. We provide a virtual and physical hub for information about research opportunities and events, and seek to strengthen the public profile of research in the Humanities.

An old presentation that has been much-viewed about the benefits of social media use for researchers.

a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research. Automatically generate bibliographies Collaborate easily with other researchers online Easily import papers from other research software Find relevant papers based on what you're reading Access your papers from anywhere online Read papers on the go, with our new iPhone app

Hi Sophie, I currently use Endnote but am thinking about switching to Mendeley. I've read that Mendeley doesn't interact as easily (i.e import references) with Library Online Catalogues /databases- have you tried it? Also, are there any copyright issues with Mendeley if I want to keep pdf's attached to all my references and share my library with users? Does it have the functionality to share just citations but not the fulltext pdf's?

Hi Sarina 1. I haven't seen any options to export references to mendeley in catalogues or databases. However they get around this by using a web bookmarking tool to bookmark and then import citation information from databases. I haven't tested this function so you may want to try it out with the databases you like to use before you give up Endnote. Here's the link to learn more: http://www.mendeley.com/import/ 2. This is a bit of a copyright minefield. You could only share someone else's copyrighted work if you have written permission from the author, or they use something like a creative commons license which allows sharing. Educational purposes only encompasses sharing a work to UTS students or staff and this sharing must occur through our DRR (http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/staff/learning-and-teaching/digital-resources-register). You can share your own materials as long as you still hold the copyright of your work and haven't signed it over to your publisher. *phew* This is why we love open access at UTS :D We have heaps of info about copyright here: http://www.lib.uts.edu.au/students/finding-information/copyright 3.You can add citations without adding a pdf. I hope that helps :D

A recently seen guide to social media resources from the UK. Dated only 7 Feb 2011!