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The School of Mathematical Sciences operates the Mathematics Study Centre. The Centre provides support to all UTS undergraduate and postgraduate students studying in various introductory mathematical and quantitative areas including statistics

"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"

"Using Twitter for Curated Academic Content" (Yes, you could do this or you could just use Zite or even Flipboard - apps freely available via iTunes. Mal Booth)

By using the social web to convey both scholarly and public attention of research outputs, altmetrics offer a much richer picture than traditional metrics based on exclusive citation database information.

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.

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

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

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

Open access to 690,569 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.

Some researchers may find some of this useful.

Kaggle is a web app for outsourcing statistical and analytics to data scientists who compete to produce solutions to the problems presented by users with their data. It's crowdsourcing for data analysis from computer science to economics to physics. Even NASA is using Kaggle.

The Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR) manages seven schemes to support research and research training. * Australian Postgraduate Awards (APA) * International Postgraduate Research Scholarships (IPRS) * Research Training Scheme (RTS) * Commercialisation Training Scheme (CTS) * Joint Research Engagement (JRE) * Sustainable Research Excellence (SRE) * Research Infrastructure Block Grants (RIBG)

Some advice re academic writing for researchers.