Thing 8: Creative Commons and Copyright

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If you are thinking of using externally sourced material (e.g. when you get to Thing 10), it’s important to understand the basics of what you can and can’t use. This post won’t/can’t cover it all (governments are grappling with the complexities of online copyright as we speak!), but we’ll look at Creative Commons (CC) and how it frees us to share and reuse online.

Thing 7: Reference management tools

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Although you may or may not consider them ‘social media’, reference management tools are one of the single most useful digital tools for a researcher today.

Break week

Chance to catch up

Thing 6: LinkedIn, Academia.edu and ResearchGate

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Where Facebook is explicitly geared towards personal use, LinkedIn focusses on professional connections.