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How to use the Web to find content for your talks, record them, share them with others and save them for future audiences. Also explains how to share it all for free and how to convert closed formats into open ones by using the Web. A really useful review of mostly free software.

Useful tips on how to prevent Google from tracking your browsing history on the web.

Monitor the Web for interesting new content

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

Web-based data visualization tool. Has demos and sample applications and a tutorial. It is open source software developed at UC Berkeley.

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.

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.

Ohhhh - exciting new feature from Slideshare. Browser based conferencing system for online meetings. Still in Beta and if you want something to remain private you will have to have a pro account.

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

Useful wiki about e-learning tools and instructional technologies: mostly free, cross-platform and web-based.

Free, browser-based easy-to-use tool to help collect, organize/sort, search, cite, and share research sources.

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

Mind-mapping tool. Can be used for brainstorming

Scientific research tool. 410 million+ items indexed. Searches journal content, homepages, pre-print, patents & institutional repository/web info.

A tool for working with messy data, cleaning it up, transforming into different formats, extending it with web services and linking to databases.

Write or Die is a web application that encourages writing by punishing the tendency to avoid writing. Start typing in the box. As long as you keep typing, you're fine, but once you stop typing, you have a grace period of a certain number of seconds and then there are consequences.

"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."