Google Booksearch is becoming one of my go-to scholarly resources. All of the evilness aside, it is extremely useful to be able to look up a chapter or section from a book (even if that book is on the shelf in the other room). Since I manage my reading lists with Amazon, I wanted [...]
Here’s a simple tip for managing your library lists: try Amazon Wishlists. If you’re a researcher or a heavy reader, you know the problem with your library lists: they grow constantly, they spread out over multiple post-its/notebooks, you lose them, and when you actually get to the library you can’t find them.
Amazon Wishlists solves this [...]
If you research an emerging topic, it is likely that you use some form of literature alert. If you’re unfamiliar with literature alerts, they are notifications provided by publishers and digital libraries to inform you of new content as it is released. Managing these alerts can be challenging, so I thought I’d share my system. [...]
One of my favorite features in Google Scholar is its “cited by” function. Cited by allows you to see all of the items in Google Scholar that cite the pulbication you were searching for. In comparison to Web of Science, GS has much greater recall, which is useful when you’re investigating a new topic.
The problem [...]
David Silver is using Twitter in his media studies classes (check out the amazing “Eating San Francisco”). Twitter is the class’ main mode of communication, and he writes that Twitter has replaced three classroom technologies:
twitter has replaced the class listserv. for years, i’ve used a listserv (alternatively called a mailing list or discussion list) to [...]
Via Academic Productivity, I’ve been looking for this forever:
BibTex4Word is an add-in for Microsoft Word that allows the citation of references from a BibTex database. BibTex4Word will insert a bibliography into your document using your choice formatting style.
It is intended for three types of user:
1. LateX users who need to use Microsoft Word. BibTex4Word allows [...]
The Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus blog writes about Freedom today:
Fred Stutzman, a Ph.D. student and teaching fellow at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science, may not have had Rousseau in mind when he created the “Freedom” application. But he does believe that to escape the [...]
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