Research @ UTS:Library

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.

10 helpful tips for using Quora.

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

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.

Article in NatureNews about the influence of Twitter on peer review and poor quality research papers.

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.

Allows for creation, collaboration and sharing of documents combining the powers of Google Apps with Microsoft Office.

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Simple to use open source software that assists collaboration in workgroups. It isn't project management software, but certainly would help setting up responsibilities and storing/tracking contributions made by groups of researchers working together.

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.

Graphic representing differences & similarities between Facebook & Twitter.

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

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

The Australian Research Council funds research and researchers under the National Competitive Grants Program (NCGP).

Free back up service for all or most of your cloud-based data. Works with Gmail, Google Docs & Calendar, Picassa, Twitter, Flickr, Blogger & Zoho. I use it.

"Faculty of 1000 (F1000) identifies and evaluates the most important articles in biology and medical research publications. The selection process comprises a peer-nominated global 'Faculty' of the world's leading scientists and clinicians who rate the best of the articles they read and explain their importance".

Future of higher education, research & scholarly publishing using scenarios.

Collaborative real time editing with multiple users

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

Blog post about the use of #phdchat for post-grad researchers. Many links to other useful introductory posts.