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Guide to using Twitter in university research, teaching, and impact activities
Podcasts on measuring your impact, the REF, and academic communication
Maximizing the impacts of your research: A handbook for social scientists
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Category Archives: Essential ‘how-to’ Guides
Mar 8 2013
How to read a computer screen: the latest tools to ease on-screen reading
1 CommentOur time is increasingly being spent in front of a computer screen. Transitioning to a fully paperless setup may require some changes to efficient working ways. Nick Blackbourn provides advice for setting up your computer for heavy duty on-screen reading. He offers … Continue reading
Posted by: March 8, 2013
Tagged with: computer reading tips, freeware
Dec 14 2012
Future of Impacts: ‘How to’ guide to social media, podcasting, blogging and writing your REF impact case study
5 CommentsMissed our ‘How to’ sessions at the recent Future of Impacts conference? Never fear, our ‘How to’ social media, podcasting, blogging and impact case study guides are here. Listen to the Impact of Social Sciences team podcast and peruse the presentations. ‘How … Continue reading
Posted by: December 14, 2012
Jul 6 2012
How to manage a research library with Zotero
24 CommentsKeeping up to date with research and managing an ever-increasing number of journal articles is skill that must be well-honed by academics. Here, Alex Hope sets out how his workflow has developed using Zotero, Dropbox, Goodreader and his iPad. Article … Continue reading
Posted by: July 6, 2012
Tagged with: academic work, digital era, impact, online, resources
Nov 24 2011
Google Scholar Citations is now open to everyone. It shows great promise as a free, reliable way to track and compare academic impact over time.
3 CommentsGoogle is once again making progress in organising the world’s information, this time by systematising the way scholarly citations are noted. Professor Patrick Dunleavy creates his Google Scholar profile and finds the process intuitive, helpful, and a welcome alternative to traditional measures of … Continue reading
Posted by: November 24, 2011
Tagged with: academic work, Blogging, digital era, google scholar, Google Scholar Citations, h-index, harzing, impact, journals, Knowledge transfer, open access, Publish or Perish
Aug 24 2011
Have your say: Who are your favourite academic tweeters?
35 CommentsMany academics have embraced social media as a tool for networking and disseminating research. Inspired by the overwhelming response we received following a call for twitter tips, we’re asking you to suggest your favourite academics on twitter. The LSE Impact … Continue reading
Posted by: August 24, 2011
Tagged with: Academic communication, Blogging, impact, twitter
Jul 27 2011
How to use Harzing’s ‘Publish or Perish’ software to assess citations – a step-by-step guide
Comments OffIn his recent blog post on the need for a digital census of academic research, Patrick Dunleavy argued that the ‘Publish or Perish’ software, developed by Professor Anne-Wil Harzing of Melbourne University and based on Google Scholar data, could provide … Continue reading
Posted by: July 27, 2011
Tagged with: academics, articles, blog posts, citations, h-index, harzing, i-10 index, impact, journals, Publish or Perish, references, social science
Jun 21 2011
Your essential ‘how-to’ guide to choosing article titles
Comments OffOne of the key tasks for an article author who wants to be cited is to quickly persuade people to click on the title of their piece and learn more from the abstract or book outline, and then from there … Continue reading
Posted by: June 21, 2011
Tagged with: Academic communication, academic work, academic writing, article, digital era
Jun 20 2011
Your essential ‘how-to’ guide to writing good abstracts
2 CommentsArticle abstracts typically say little about what the researcher has discovered or what the key findings are, what they are arguing as a ‘bottom line’, or what key ‘take-away points’ they want readers to remember. Here we present a simple … Continue reading
Posted by: June 20, 2011
Tagged with: abstracts, Academic communication, academic writing
Jun 18 2011
Your essential ‘how-to’ guide to choosing book titles
Comments OffAcademic book titles often appear to be chosen by their authors without any thought to their interpretation by internet readers scanning through long lists of potentially relevant entries. Both completely formal or vacuous titles are prevalent in STEM disciplines and … Continue reading
Posted by: June 18, 2011
Tagged with: academic work, academics, accuracy, book titles, citations, digital era, representation
Jun 17 2011
Your essential ‘how-to’ guide to using Google Books
1 CommentGoogle has been the prime force in the development of article-finding, bookfinding and citations-tracking systems free over the internet, having ambitiously declared its mission to ‘to organize the world’s information.’ Less than a decade after its founding, the company’s twin … Continue reading
Posted by: June 17, 2011
Tagged with: Google Books, google scholar
