I was recently revising my Library Research Guide on Productivity Tools for Graduate Students and found myself bounding down the Twitter for Researchers’ rabbit hole once again, so I thought I’d take this opportunity to share some of my latest … Continue reading
Scientists have been recording data for millennia (Bird, 2013). Since science became more formal in the 17th century, more and more data has been produced, and tools grow ever more sophisticated. There are still some who think that if a … Continue reading
I have been using Evernote more and more as my research portal. The Evernote Clipper makes it so easy to clip whole blog entries or articles or even pages from the internet. Copying an article or set of powerpoint slides … Continue reading
This is the third and last, at least for now, post in my series of tools for the digital humanities (DH). I continue to have the two problems I mentioned in my last post, of there being too many good … Continue reading
This is the second in my series of posts on tools for different disciplines. The first was on the digital humanities (DH) and covered general resources for getting started in DH. I planned for this second post to be more … Continue reading
We live in an age of invention, with so many people participating in the act of creation. This creates a multiplier effect – the more tools people create, the easier it becomes to create more. So it is in academia…where, … Continue reading