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Excellent guide to research

Interactive How to Do Research

Social research? An escalation in the citationwars.

Digital Pencil research steps

Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network that can help you organize your research, collaborate with others online, and discover the latest research.

"What lifelong learning needs do recent graduates have once they finish college? What information sources and systems do they use for continued learning? During fall 2014, the PIL research team surveyed 1,651 recent graduates from 10 US colleges and universities. Read the survey trends report with preliminary findings from our study (10 pages, PDF, 229KB). "Preliminary Trends about Recent Graduates' Lifelong Learning Needs and Practices," Alison J. Head, Project Information Literacy Research Summary, February 17, 2015."

Presentation slides for Zaid Alsagoff's webinar on the 11 May (2013) to students from an Online Course in Research methodology for PhD scholars at the Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women's University (SNDTWU). Contains some excellent info and advice on spreading of ideas and influence applicable for any collaboration.

This article includes link to original PEW report.

Fantastic video tutorial on research skills

According to this survey of teachers, conducted by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project in collaboration with the College Board and the National Writing Project, the internet has opened up a vast world of information for today's students, yet students' digital literacy skills have yet to catch up....Given these concerns, it is not surprising that 47% of these teachers strongly agree and another 44% somewhat believe that courses and content focusing on digital literacy should be incorporated into every school's curriculum.

Could be adapted for use during "explore" stage of research process, background research, topic refinement

Google Docs has add a research tool to facilitate web searches. Filters for images, quotes, license, etc. help limit the search.

Database of policy research papers

youtube presentation on google books for research. You can't get to the gear drop down for changing the pdf to text unless it is a copyright free book.

Youtube presentation on google books for research. You can't get to the gear drop down for changing the pdf to text unless it is a copyright free book.

the focus of this guide is on college libraries as an academic support service, college level research expectations, and the research process. 

"tools to help to help organize themselves as they do their research. It seemed like a good time to do a re-cap (or a gathering!) of the different online note-taking/bookmarking tools I've mentioned before, and to look for any new ones. All of these apps work via browser add-ons, and all allow sharing."

Weblogs are increasingly being used in education by researchers, teachers, and students. Professors are keeping research blogs, requiring students to blog, or creating course weblogs. Students are keeping course blogs or personal blogs. Scholars are studying and writing about the weblog phenomenon while keeping weblogs about weblogs. The list is growing quickly. Here is a smattering of what is going on in and around Academia.

"...how can such a brief medium have any relevance to universities and academia, where journal articles are 3,000 to 8,000 words long, and where books contain 80,000 words? Can anything of academic value ever be said in just 140 characters?" "This guide answers these questions, showing you how to get started on Twitter and showing you how Twitter can be used as a resource for research, teaching and impact activities."