Research Essentials

A few months back, I spent some time at http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk/rssjnllist.html setting up RSS feeds for all the journals I receive Zetoc alerts for. A good feed contains a list of all the articles in the current issue . You can click to get authors, and then drill down to more information. Looking at my Netvibes page where [...]

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Link to our blogging paper http://kn.open.ac.uk/document.cfm?docid=9992

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Just started using social bookmarking del.icio.us in order to store all my geocaching bookmarks. They’ve been starting to clog up my google bookmarks (accessible no matter what computer I’m on – yippee) so I needed a way of collating them such that I could access them on any computer. Using tags, I started putting them [...]

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I’ve always been a bit dubious about Google Scholar – it seems to have so many links that take you nowhere without a lot of work.Now I’ve found that you can change your preferences to give it a ‘Save to Endnote link’. So, for example, I just searched for Rupert Wegerif’s 1998 article, ‘The social [...]

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