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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. 

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

Released in February 2011, this guide for researchers introduces some basics about how social media may be of use and highlights some basic social media tools.

A really useful report on how researchers are using social media and what their attitudes are to it.

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

Labmeeting's mission is to help researchers work more efficiently. It offers researchers a web service to organize, collect, and share scientific papers.

ResearcherID is a global, multi-disciplinary scholarly research community. With a unique identifier assigned to each author in ResearcherID, you can eliminate author misidentification and view an author's citation metrics instantly. Search the registry to find collaborators, review publication lists and explore how research is used around the world.

A great relatively new resource for academic researchers at UTS and beyond.

Blog post from Mendeley about their progress to use tags to group related documents & a wiki to describe the tags & to link related concepts.

Workshops run by UTS HRU in support of researcher capability development.

UTS Health & Safety support resources in support of researchers

A research tool for those interested in social media.

New uni-based site that bridges the academic/journalist divide. A site to watch for interested researchers.

Citation analysis tool for researchers to prove the impact of their research. Particularly good for people in the arts, humanities, engineering and mathmatics.

Some keen researchers could try this at UTS. We'd even be happy to help with a venue in the UTS Library.

Quick guide to academic research in slideshare

"Store, organize, and share your education and research for free." I've not used this, so not sure what it is like, but it looks pretty useful for some.

"Why openness benefits research Posted on 17/01/2013 The following text is jointly authored by David Shotton (david.shotton@zoo.ox.ac.uk) and Heinrich Hartmann (hartmann@uni-koblenz.de). Cf.  OpenCitations.net - blog."

"Hiding your research behind a paywall is immoral As a scientist your job is to bring new knowledge into the world. Hiding it behind a journal's paywall is unacceptable"