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Unfortunately I'm not able to link you directly to the article - how you can log in via the Library's catalogue using the link above.

Simple to use open source software that assists collaboration in workgroups. It isn't project management software, but certainly would help setting up responsibilities and storing/tracking contributions made by groups of researchers working together.

An open source declarative graphics framework allowing data visualisation and mapping and other graphics editing.

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

Free service for managing and discovering scholarly references.

Graduate Junction is an online community connecting postgraduates who have similar academic interests. Graduate Junction aims to break down the interdisciplinary and institutional barriers that exist in academia and connect people based only on the work that they do and the interests that they have. Graduate Junction was founded in 2008 by two postgraduates at Durham University working alongside their own degree projects because they felt isolated in their own fields. When the first version of the Graduate Junction platform was launched it received support from postgraduates and academics alike. It has continued to grow with the community now containing almost 16,000 members. The community has continued to evolve over time with new functions and features added based upon suggestions from the community itself. All functionality added to the site since its launch has been requested by postgraduates. Despite having no external funding or support these changes have been made possible thanks to the time input of postgraduate volunteers, making Graduate Junction an entirely postgraduate-led initiative.

Social media trends for 2011 from HBR. Worth a look, even if you don't agree with many of them (like me). I do think these trends have a distorted bias towards business and that misses the point really. There is also a growing push-back against Facebook that is ignored by this analysis from the US.

Short article in SA about crowdsourcing (vice web-searching). Growing trend that is of interest to researchers.

This is becoming a useful blog portal for researchers and I think it is one well worth watching if you are even slightly interested in this world. I was put onto it via academia.edu

A British Library exhibition site that is a really eye opening experience for researchers. I saw the exhibition in late 2011 when it was opening and it is pretty stunning.

Research blog post with over 250 comments about a review of a NASA paper making claims about a baterium that substitutes for phosphorus.

Article in NatureNews about the influence of Twitter on peer review and poor quality research papers.

Short blog post about the research quality of some journals and how Twitter and blog posts are attacking them in the interests of higher quality research.

Book about designing and implementing social research studies, especially for those in community organisations.

Good for those using qualitative methods in their research. He is a believer in simple is good when it comes to research design.