Research @ UTS:Library

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?

This book was highly recommended by several of our panel members during Research Week.

This book is really really helpful in trying to manage your research (not just for those doing a PhD) in a way that you can find your stuff after collecting lots and lots of information over the years.

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

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.

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.

A really useful report on how researchers are using social media and what their attitudes are to it.

Not all of those mentioned on this list are that "new". Those I think that would be most useful to researchers: For metrics/statistics - Argyle, TwentyFeet.com & PostRank For content management - Trunk.ly & Storify & for Twitter hashtag tracking - HashTracking

Short interesting article that urges authors of research papers to take them to the next level and treat them as Open Source software.

Feedback collection platform. Can be used to gather community input to innovation.

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