Author Archives: Martin Rehm

Turning Ideas Into Literature

Contributed by: Ad Notten (UNU-MERIT) At the beginning of your (PhD) research, you will most probably start off with an embryonic idea of what you would like to investigate and perhaps you might even have some literature from which you … Continue reading

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SlideRocket – “The New Way To Present”

Contributed by: Irina Burlacu (MGSoG) Since I discovered SlideRocket, I kept on recommending it to my peer-colleagues, who do not use Latex, Prezi, or Mac for fancy presentations, but instead use the standard Power Point slide presentations. There are few … Continue reading

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LaTeX – An (attractive) alternative to Word and/or PowerPoint?

Contributed by: Kristine Farla (MGSoG) Microsoft Word® and PowerPoint® are the most commonly used typesetting products around. And while using them offers a lot of advantages, everyone knows that formatting the layout of a document can be time consuming and … Continue reading

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Portable Apps: Dropbox

Contributed by: Youri van Dijk In a previous post, some advantages of cloud storage are mentioned. First, there’s the need for a proper backup. Second, you’d like to be able to access your storage files everywhere. However, due to security … Continue reading

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PBWorks & Dropbox

Contributed by: Nico Rasters (BU) Collaboration between co-authors, research assistants, external experts, and reviewers usually occurs in the form of emails (with attachments) being sent back and forth. There are numerous reasons why email is the wrong tool for online … Continue reading

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Google Operators

Contributed by: Koen Beumer (FASoS) Everyone knows Google is more than just a search engine. They offer e-mail and software services, maps, mobile phones and even an academic search engine. Perhaps less known is that their regular search engine offers … Continue reading

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Mendeley & EndNote

Contributed by: Jos Franssen (UB) After having installed the free Mendeley Desktop application (http://www.mendeley.com) next to my rather old EndnoteX2 version, which the library is still supporting because of technical reasons, I was really happy that these two reference manager tools did … Continue reading

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RSS Feeds

Contributed by: Joeri Bruyninckx (FASoS) The internet has made it much easier for young researchers to keep up to date with the latest developments in their fields. Many journals feature OnlineFirst articles prior to print publication; publishers announce expected publications online; and … Continue reading

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Audacity

Contributed by: Florian Henning (UNU-MERIT / MGSoG / FHS) Audacity is an open source tool for recording and editing audio. It is a really useful tool for dealing with any kind of audio data, and freely available on the sourceforge website. … Continue reading

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Cloud Storage

Contributed by: Martin Rehm (UNU-MERIT / MGSoG / FHS) In the process of conducting research, you will come across an endless amount of articles that you want and/or need to read, collect a vast amount of data, and (of course) produce … Continue reading

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