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EndNote Help – Importing References
Now that we have set up all our alerts, it’s time to import the references into EndNote. Task 4 Importing References I. From the Journal or Publisher’s website References can be downloaded from online...
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PowerPoint Help – Video Guides
Most of us use PowerPoint at some point in our academic (and not so academic) career. I came across a couple of YouTube videos which I found useful and thought I might share them here. I’m going to...
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To Tumblr or not to Tumblr?
For those who came to the Web2.0 Google Me workshop, I mentioned that if you choose to set up a website of your own, using a blog site might not be a bad idea. It saves you starting from scratch,...
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10 points to remember when designing your Poster
The last Poster Presentation Workshop was at the beginning of March. If you missed that and cannot wait for the next one, as you have a poster presentation looming perhaps, here are 10 points to help...
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Keeping up to date with information, RSS feeds
With the arrival of Web2.0 platforms, there is now a deluge of information available to us, and I am not just talking about journals, papers and peer-reviewed articles. These are, of course, the bread...
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Opening access to your research
What all researchers want is their work to be widely known. The reasons for this are obvious: we publish to share our ideas and findings, and to allow others to build upon our own work. On a more...
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Third party copyright material in your thesis
We have had a few articles written on the subject of open access on this site in the last few months: Opening access to your research introduced us to the idea of increasing the readership of our...
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Author Rights
In one of our previous posts, Third party copyright material in your thesis, we talked about how to handle copyright issues within your thesis. This post extends the discussion to include your rights...
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Optimize your publishing, maximize your impact
As researchers it is important that we not only publish our papers in the right journals, but we must also ensure that we reach as wide an audience as possible to maximise the impact of our...
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How people look at your online social profiles
During our Google Me workshop last week, we discussed online profiles and footprints, and social networking. I came across this article on Mashable, Here’s How People Look at Your Facebook Profile –...
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