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Catalogues and Databases

BIOSIS: Advanced Subject Searching at Berkely
Beilstein and Gmelin CrossFire Databases at Uni of Wisconsin-Madison
CRUZCAT: Searching for a Known Journal Title at University of California
PubMed Home
PubMed: Searching with the MeSH Database at National Library of Medicine
PubMed: Combining MeSH Terms at National Library of Medicine
PubMed: Applying Subheadings and other features of the MeSH Database
PubMed: Creating Alerts at UC Berkeley Library
PubMed Help
UC e-Links: Tutorial at University of California
Web of Knowledge: Creating Alerts at UC Berkeley Library
Web of Science Search Tips

Embracing the Technology

Paperless Ph.D - Part 1
Paperless Ph.D - Part 2
Paperless Ph.D - Part 3
Convert PDFs to DOC and other formats

EndNote

EndNote.com
EndNote Tips at the London School of Economics
EndNote help at the University of Queensland Library (thanks Jane)
EndNote help at University of Tasmania
EndNote Basics X1 and X2 from EndNote
EndNote Basics 9 from EndNote
EndNoteWeb from EndNote
Google Scholar searches: importing into EndNote by Andy Mallett
Importing Records from a CSA Database: GeoRef at University of California
Importing Citations from Web Of Science into EndNote at UC Berkeley

Ethnography

Ethnographic Research at North Carolina State University

Feminism

Feminist approaches to research: Modern to postmodern feminist research
Feminist Epistemology: The Foundation of Feminist Research and its Distinction from Traditional Research

Glossaries

Glossary of research terms at Research Mindedness
The Cochrane Collaboration - glossary
University of Maryland Medical Center-Nursing Research Council.
Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences
University of Redlands Glossary of Research Terms
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Glossary of Research Terms

Grounded Theory

Grounded theory: a thumbnail sketch at Southern Cross University

Journals

Journal of Mixed Methods Research (Sage)

Journal Rankings - ERA Project

The Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research announced in February 2008 that the RQF scheme will be replaced by the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) scheme and the movement of the RQF staff to the Australian Research Council (ARC). Outlet ranking lists will form an important part of the ERA assessment, and therefore it is essential that the lists are complete, valid and of a standard that will withstand international scrutiny.

The ARC will consult the outlet ranking lists with the sector during April. It is expected that the final outlet ranking list will be released in mid-2008 and be used for the forthcoming ERA round in 2009.
Ref: http://www.atse.org.au/index.php?sectionid=1193

The Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) Initiative (ARC)
ERA Ranking at ATSE (Academy Technological Sciences and Engineering)
John Lamp's IS Pages - ERA journal ranking list
Journal Evaluation Tool (JET) - ANZ Council of Deans of Nursing & Midwifery

Phenomenology

Centre for Advanced Research in Phenomenology
Phenomenology as Research Method - Beverley Campbell

Politics

Political Ideology Quiz at QuizFarm

Podcasts

Free Academic Podcasts at Productivity 501
University of Warwick
University & College Podcasts - Free Educational Podcasts

Publishing

Publish Not Perish at Uni of Colorado

Qualitative

Purposive Sampling

Research Proposals

RP Format at the University of Western Australia

RSS Feeds

What are RSS Feeds? at University of California
RSS in Plain English
CINAHL searches: converting to RSS feeds by Andy Mallett
Google Reader - Rss Feed Reader
Google Reader - Part 2
Google Reader - Part 3
Subscribing to RSS Feeds Using Bloglines at University of California
Using Bloglines: Adding a Subscribe Button at University of California
Web of Knowledge: Creating an RSS Feed at UC Berkeley Library
PubMed searches: converting to RSS feeds by Andy Mallett
Free desktop reader at RSSReader.com
Convert PubMed Searches into RSS feeds

Search Engines

How Scholarly Search Engines Differ at the University of California

Thesis/Dissertation

Academic Rabbit (a short story) - internet
Advice for Finishing that Damn PhD [pdf] by Daniel Berry
Australasian Digital Theses Program
Considering a Ph.D Degree
Digital Dissertations & Theses - Flinders University Adelaide
Digital Thesis Repository - University of Tasmania
Dissertation Calculator at the University of Minnesota
How to avoid graduation (pdf) by Osten Dahl
PhDSeek.com - postgraduate research degrees in Australia
PhD Madness: Vanitas Vanitatum by Anik LaChev
PhD Thesis writing help at ThesisWritingBlog.com
Questions To Ask When Thinking About Pursuing a PhD by Chris Golde
You might be a grad student if.. collated by Andy Mallett

Steve Tucker
03 Feb 2010, 19:18

Nice site. Looking forward to more updates..

Andrew Mallett
19 Sep 2009, 16:05

Hi Mike,

Have added CINAHL to RSS instructions above.

- Andy

Mike Holt
12 Sep 2009, 17:42

Is it possible toconvert CINAHL to RSS?

Natalie Hong
05 Sep 2009, 18:55

Thankyou. The era classifications are very usefull.

John Mackay
15 Aug 2009, 11:11

very good.

Mr. Tee
13 Aug 2009, 22:32

Google searches into endnote just rocks..this thing saves me so much time. Takes a bit of time to learn the interface tho'..

Jason Crisp
11 Aug 2009, 22:30

EndNote is sucha great program. Takes a while to get the hang of it.

Francisca D'Esposito
02 Aug 2009, 15:13

Thanks for the RSS hints - very useful.

MikeSpike
24 Jul 2009, 15:12

A link for you to add

http://stanford.library.usyd.edu.au/contents.html

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