Category Archives: Sharing / Organizing

Deliver web-based presentations with Swipe

Posted on June 3, 2013 by florian.henning

Contributed by: Stijn Bannier (UNU-MERIT) At conferences we all bring our laptop, smartphone and/or tablet nowadays, but still we have to look at a screen behind or next to the presenter. Simultaneously, when seeing an interesting slide on this screen … Continue reading →

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Using a flipbook for research purposes: manual or display results

Posted on April 26, 2013 by d.verstegen

Contributed by: Nynke de Jong (FHML) In research you often have to distribute information, for example to patients or health care professionals. Why are you not using a digital system which looks very professional and is quite quickly to make: … Continue reading →

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Alert Function in Google Scholar

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Joeri Bruyninckx

Contributed by: Nicolle Lamerichs (FASoS) Keeping up to date with the newest literature in your field can be tough. You may have subscribed to mail lists, publishers’ guides or maybe you just browse the catalogues on your favourite key words … Continue reading →

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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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Doing a (systematic) literature review with a group of people

Posted on June 28, 2012 by d.verstegen

Contributed by: Daniëlle Verstegen   Every research starts with a literature review, right? And it always takes a lot of time… Doing a (systematic) literature review with a group of people has advantages: you can share the reading load and … Continue reading →

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How to start an academic blog

Posted on June 18, 2012 by d.verstegen

Contributed by: Rafael Bienia Blogging facilitates networking, which is crucial for your career. Writing a blog helps you to communicate with your peers, to keep in touch with colleagues you have met on conferences, and to meet new people, who … Continue reading →

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Portable Apps: Dropbox

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Martin Rehm

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

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Martin Rehm

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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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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