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Digital Tools for Researchers@ Swansea University
http://bit.ly/sudigtools
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Do you currently use any digital tools?
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1. In my personal life2. In my professional
life3. In both 1 & 24. Not yet!
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Which one shall I choose??
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•Organisation•Collaboration•Communication
Think about what you want to do, then think about which social media tool will help you achieve that.
Top tip:
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Have you used an RSS service before?
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1. Yes2. No3. I’m not sure what it
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RSS – Really Simple Syndication
Use RSS to subscribe to feeds in order to keep up with news from websites. Subscribe to content from specific journals, & your own subject searches!
Organisation
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RSS - Advantages?• Stay up-to-date with relevant
research websites, academic journals etc
• Check conference updates
• Filter & manage info
• Time saving!
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RSS Reader
• In order to subscribe to a feed, you need to use an RSS reader.
• A popular choice is Google Reader• There are other tools available to manage your RSS
feeds
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Have you used an alerting service before?
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1. Yes2. No3. I’m not sure what it
is
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Alerting tools – Advantages?
• Keep pace with your peers • Staying up to date with new research• Expanding your field of knowledge• Alerting services available in most research
databases
http://zetoc.mimas.ac.uk
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Collaboration
• Storing in the Cloud• Access from anywhere with a web connection:
home, work, mobile phone, tablet...• A back-up store• Makes sharing easy over the web
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• Free version = 2GB space• Extremely popular = 50m+ users• Software install or access also via the web• Store files of any type: photos, word
documents etc.
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Google Drive (Docs)
• 5GB free storage• Software download available (Dropbox-style)• Google Docs is online Office-style suite = Word
documents, spreadsheets, presentations so has editing facilities
• Easy to share and collaborate on a document
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Making documents available
• Dropbox and Google Drive all allow you to “publish” a document selectively or publicly– You get a URL to circulate– Google Docs demo
• Or: do you have your own web space? A website? A blog?
• Copyright & IPR considerations
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Other things you can share
• Presentations: Slideshare, Prezi• References: Mendeley, Zotero• Curating content: Pinterest, Scoop.it• Social Bookmarking (web links): delicious,
diigo(Examples of all of these on our help pages)
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Communication
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As a researcher I need to have an online professional profile?
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1. Agree2. Disagree3. Not sure
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Dr Simon DymondCollege of Human and Health Sciences, Swansea University
“I tweet about my research to draw attention to it (and, it is hoped, increase its "impact").”
“I also tweet about my findings from my research area (behaviour analysis and behaviourism) because is often misrepresented, as well other topics I am interested in.”
“I see Twitter as a forum by which like-minded people interact and share resources. It is really impressive how many academics and researchers from around the world have a presence on Twitter!”
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Using Twitter
• You can lurk!• Find people / organizations that interest you• The essentials:
– Reply by using @username– Hashtags for topics e.g. #psychology, #altc2012– Use short URLs (http://bit.ly, http://goo.glAll you need to know is in one great guide!
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Have a go!
Use the handout if you’re just getting startedORUse the online document to browse tools you
haven’t used before:
http://bitly.com/sudigtools
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Which of the tools do you think might be useful to you?
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1. Twitter2. Google Drive3. Dropbox4. Netvibes5. Google Reader6. Zetoc Alerts7. Something else
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