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Alternatives to Google Reader
From 1st July 2013, Google Reader will no longer be available. If you have been using Google Reader to save your RSS feeds (to keep current with research), you can export the feeds to other readers. This post suggests a … Continue reading
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Tagged current, digital literacies, digital literacy, Google Reader, research, researcher, RSS, updated
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Demo of Mendeley at the IOE
The following message has been circulated, but in case you’ve missed it, here it is again: John Jardin and Simon Litt from Swets, who represent Mendeley Institutional in the UK, will come and give us a demo of this software … Continue reading
Audiovisual citation – a research project & user survey
A colleague recently remarked that there were around 2,000 citation formats available in EndNote. One major area of weakness in all of the current citation systems has been the citation of audiovisual media, whether in physical, broadcast, or online forms. … Continue reading
Doctoral Students: Open Days at the British Library
The British Library regularly opens its doors to PhD students and we recommend you go to one of the Doctoral Open Days advertised below if you are unfamiliar with the BL’s collections. The Open Days are arranged so that you … Continue reading
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Tagged British Library, collections, Doctoral, open days, PhD, research, researcher
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As data is the lifeblood of research …
Last week, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) for the UK announced that it would invest £17 million over five years in creating a new national digital repository for social and economic data. This UK Data Service will be … Continue reading
Our new neighbour, the Wiener Library
Written by guest blogger Emma Allison Picture shows HRH The Princess Royal in the reading room opening the new home of the Wiener Library on 1st December 2011 (courtesy of the Wiener Library twitter page). Some of my colleagues andI visited the … Continue reading
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Tagged archives, Germany, Holocaust, Holocaust Education, research, researcher, special collections, Weiner Library
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The OTHER great library at our doorstep: Social Science Collections at the British Library
We often forget that we are a stone’s throw away from the other great library – the British Library which is our national library. Last Tuesday, thanks to a timely reminder from an esteemed colleague, I attended a lunch time talk … Continue reading
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Tagged BL, British Library, children, collections, family, research, researcher, social science, social sciences
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A visit opens new avenues for research: the House of Commons Library
Wednesday was a pretty special day for me as I managed to get on the Annual Open Day for Librarians and Information officers at the House of Commons Library which is offered to members of the M25 Consortium of Academic … Continue reading
What’s all the huha about? ‘Altmetrics’: uncovering the invisible in research
There’s been a lot of debate about the validity of impact factors over the years (and there have been many attempts to measure impact but none wholly accurate). Just this week on Twitter, the discussion took off again after the … Continue reading
How digitally literate are you?
How digitally literate are researchers and researcher development professionals? How is digital technology being used for research and to develop researchers? At what rate are higher education institutions embedding digital literacies in researcher development? In order to answer some of … Continue reading
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