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Giant search engine for just about everything from the NLA. Links to and searches most Australian cultural institutions and their online resources.

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

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.

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

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

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.

cademia.edu is a free social networking website and collaboration tool aimed at academics and researchers from all disciplines. Like Facebook or LinkedIn for academics, but not as annoying or distracting. Very focussed on academia. Launched in September 2008, it became one of the largest social networking sites/portals for academics in 2010.

Nice essay by Brungs & Mcnamara about the importance of research being accessible to the general public and its potential as a catalyst for public debate.

A useful and enlightening blog post re iPads and how to use them best to make the most of their potential.

Presentation about the costs of higher education (albeit US costs) and some alternative ways we can assist including more open access, social media and social networks.

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

a journal management and publishing system that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its federally funded efforts to expand and improve access to research.

Interesting blog post re the preservation of linked data: "Open data licenses do not merely permit and encourage re-use of data, they permit and encourage its preservation."

Analysis, debate and news about academic journals and publishing from The Conversation.

This is a pdf summary of the book also bookmarked in this group. The text says: Researchers who know and make use of these seven secrets get through their doctorate more quickly, and just as importantly are happier, according to the Staff Development and Training Unit, Flinders University, Australia. What do you think?

Dropbox provides a single folder that allows you to both backup and share files, particularly large files that are a pain to email. It can be used on any computer or smart phone.

Another useful blog post about what is and what is not Open Access publication. There are some shifty people out there so beware.

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

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.