- The rapid accessibility to a vast and professionally meaningful network.
- Feeling better connected to other academics.Dissemination of work to worldwide readers.
- Enables connections with a much great diversity of people who wouldn’t normally come to attention.
- Come across ideas would normally not encounter.
- Links to papers and articles that would not be on academics radar normally.
- BibSonomy
- CiteULike
- delicious
- diigo : Diigo is a multi-tool for knowledge management.
- Mendeley
- Zotero
- Google Bookmarks
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EverNote -If you like taking notes at conferences and want to share them.
- Social networking services
- Academia.edu : Acplace to share and follow research.
- Friendfeed
- MethodSpace
- Nature Network
- ResearchGate
- Google Plus
- Presentation sharing tools
- Scribd : share your documents in a large social community.
- SlideShare
- Sliderocket
- Audio and Video tools
- Flickr
- Livestream
- Picasa
- SmugMug
- Viddler
- Vimeo
- Research and writing collaboration tools
- Dropbox
- Google Docs
- PBworks
- Wetpaint
- Wikia
- Wikispaces
- Zoho Office Suite
- Project management, meeting and collaboration tools
- Bamboo
- Basecamp
- BigBlueButton
- Citrix GotoMeeting
- DimDim
- Elluminate
- Huddle
- HUBzero is a powerful, open source software platform for creating dynamic web sites that support scientific research and educational activities
- PhDTree : PhDTree is a Wiki project to document the academic family tree of PhDs worldwide, both past and present. The goal is to build the most comprehensive academic genealogy Wiki for every discipline.
2. From Publication To Impact : Professor Anne-Wil Harzing, University of Melbourne
3. 33 Tips to Maximize Articles’ Citation Frequency by Nader Ale Ebrahim,University of Malaya
4. The Effective Use of “Research Tools” and Resources – Training of Trainers (TOT)
5. Practical Guide to Write a PhD Thesis and publish papers based on the thesis
6. How to write a review paper
7. Research Tools by Nader Ale Ebrahim,University of Malaya (This Mind Map is designed to help students who seek to reduce the search time by expanding the knowledge of researchers to more effectively use the “tools” that are available through the Net)
8. Online Presence: Developing your presence: Course Book – WebLearn
9. Using social media in the social age of learning – Special Issue : Lifewide Magazine…
10. ‘Feeling Better Connected’: Academics’ Use of Social Media- by Deborah Lupton