"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)
"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."
Papers revolutionizes the way you deal with your research documents. It allows you to search for them, download and organize them together with supplementary material, allows you to read them full screen, highlight and keep notes, sync them to your iPad or iPhone, cite them in your favorite word processor, share them with your colleagues, and much much more.
Interesting blog post re a growing and disturbing trend - academic spamming in the name of "open access publication". Read before you agree to any approach from InTech
Article in The Australian during Research Week at KC (July 2011) about a USydney Professor who has started using Twitter to let people know about his research.