Category Archives: Tools: Overview

Archiving and citing web-pages with WebCite

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Joeri Bruyninckx

Contributed by: Bart van Oost Nowadays, a lot of research draws on online sources, be it in the form of websites or documents that are available on the WWW. Although there are standard ways of citing online sources in academic … Continue reading →

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Scrivener: Organizing the flow of academic writing

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Joeri Bruyninckx

Contributed by: Joeri Bruyninckx (FASoS) As young academics, a large part of our time is taken up by activities such as outlining, writing and editing, and to do this, most of us rely on one single tool: MS Word. Scrivener … Continue reading →

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Mendeley & EndNote

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Martin Rehm

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

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Martin Rehm

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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Cloud Storage

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Martin Rehm

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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